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The iPhone Air bombed hard enough that it straight up murdered the entire ultra-thin smartphone category before it even took off. Chinese brands like Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo all ditched their plans to build competing slim phones after watching Apple faceplant. DigiTimes says these manufacturers...

Paradox Interactive ate a $37 million loss on Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 after the game flopped harder than they expected. CEO Fredrik Wester straight up admitted the publisher screwed up and said they don't really know how to handle action RPGs since their bread and butter has always...

A modder named D3DNieR dropped a playable Rufus Shinra mod for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth on PC that lets you control the boss character with all his signature moves intact. The character functions pretty well based on gameplay footage, though one ability called Thread Softly can freeze certain...

The B850 chipset from AMD has been eating into B650's dominance in South Korea's DIY market. Data from Danawa shows B850 sitting at nearly 29% market share while B650 holds onto first place with around 38%, though that lead keeps shrinking each month. What's driving the switch is mostly price...

Erying dropped new MoDT motherboards that stick Intel Core Ultra 200H mobile chips onto desktop boards, ranging from the 225H up to the flagship 285H with 16 cores pushing 5.4 GHz. These boards let budget builders grab laptop silicon running at 120W instead of the usual mobile power limits...

MSI rolled out a fresh BIOS tweak called PBO BCLK Booster for their 800 series MAX boards that juices performance on Ryzen chips through base clock adjustments. The feature works as a one-click profile that bumps the base clock generator settings, with two different boost levels depending on how...

Rebel Wolves ditched the traditional main quest setup for their upcoming game, The Blood of Dawnwalker, according to game director Konrad Tomaskiewicz. Players get total freedom to tackle their enemy whenever they want, either solo or after building up gear and recruiting allies through side...

Samsung's apparently going full black on the Galaxy S26 Ultra, which sounds cool until you realize the dark frame blends with the display edges and makes the bezels look way thicker than they actually are. Ice Universe dropped this detail about the uniform color scheme that basically creates an...

Qualcomm is splitting its chip lineup with two versions, where the regular Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 gets a weaker GPU compared to the Pro model, according to leaks from Digital Chat Station. Both chips apparently use the same 2nm process from TSMC and share a redesigned CPU cluster that swaps...

Nvidia apparently stopped bundling VRAM chips with the GPU dies it ships to board partners because memory suppliers like Samsung, Micron, and SK Hynix can't keep up with AI demand. According to leaker Golden Pig Upgrade, the company told its AIBs they need to source their memory themselves going...

Some dude on Reddit with an iPhone 16 Pro Max strapped a cooling setup to their phone and managed to beat the binned A19 Pro chip inside the iPhone Air in benchmark tests. The actively cooled A18 Pro pulled 3,630 single-core and 9,648 multi-core on Geekbench 6 while the iPhone Air with its A19...

A repair shop in Utah called DVD Game Exchange Repair Center got handed a busted PlayStation 5 that turned into an absolute nightmare when techs cracked it open. The console from Orem was completely infested with cockroaches that were actively crawling out while they were trying to diagnose...

Nintendo just scooped up Bandai Namco Studios Singapore after basically telegraphing the move in their latest financial report. The studio helped develop Splatoon 3 alongside other titles like Soul Calibur VI and Ace Combat 7, but their work on the squid shooter franchise is what sealed the...

Intel's apparently prepping at least four Nova Lake-S desktop chips with that new bLLC cache setup, according to leaks from Kopite7kimi. The unlocked models are split between dual compute tile configs that pack up to 48 cores plus 4 low-power efficiency cores with 288 MB of bLLC, and single tile...

SSSTC just dropped their ER4 enterprise SATA drives that max out at 16TB, which is pretty massive for SATA tech these days. The drives hit 98K read IOPS and between 30K to 55K write IOPS, depending on capacity, with sequential speeds capping at 550MB/s read and 530MB/s write. They use a standard...

discoDSP just rolled out Discovery Pro 8.10 with some pretty solid upgrades for synth nerds. The big one is 16x oversampling for bouncing tracks, which gives you that extra audio quality when rendering final mixes. They added mono mode priority that lets you pick which note plays when you hit...

AIR Music Tech just dropped Tape Double Track as a freebie, which is wild because they normally charge a hundred bucks for it. The plugin recreates that old school Automatic Double Tracking effect from the 60s that made Beatles recordings sound so thick and layered without having the artists...

Johnny Cash's estate is going after Coca-Cola for allegedly using a tribute singer to fake the country legend's voice in their college football ads without asking permission. The beverage company hired someone who markets himself as a Cash impersonator to record vocals that would sound as close...

Oasis is setting up temporary merch shops in London and Dublin that stay open until late December after wrapping their reunion tour. The London spot on Regent Street opens first with a room showing tour footage and fan content, while Dublin launches at Stephen's Green Shopping Centre the next...

Wasserman Music just loaded up their UK crew with four people to handle tours and artist stuff. Paul Ryan came over as a senior VP, bringing his metal and rock portfolio with bands like Sleep Token and Architects, while grabbing some new acts. Chris Lander jumped into work on the podcast side...