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    Samsung taps LG for WOLED monitors, mixing it up to win gamers

    Samsung dropped plans to roll out a bunch of OLED monitors next year and the twist is that one of them uses LG panel tech instead of their usual QD-OLED stuff. The company figures it's cheaper to buy WOLED from LG Display than make their own right now, even though they totally could. The lineup...
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    Toby Wallace joins Assassin's Creed series, mystery role teases Netflix shake-up

    Netflix grabbed Toby Wallace for a lead role in their Assassin's Creed show, which has been stuck in development hell since they announced it five years back. The 30-year-old actor from Bikeriders and Eden got the green light to join the cast after the series finally started moving forward over...
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    Jennifer English calls out AI in games, keeps it real on the red carpet

    Jennifer English dropped her take on generative AI at the Golden Joystick Awards and basically told the industry to knock it off. The actor behind Shadowheart from Baldur's Gate 3 and Maelle from Clair Obscur Expedition 33 said devs should stick with human creativity instead of leaning on AI for...
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    Apple's founding contract heads to auction, nostalgia fetches millions

    Christie's is getting ready to sell the original Apple partnership paperwork for somewhere between $2 million and $4 million at an auction. The lot has the three-page agreement that tied together Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ron Wayne, plus the withdrawal papers Wayne signed just a few days...
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    GPU and RAM prices are rising fast; is now your last shot

    MAINGEAR boss Wallace Santos is telling people to buy their gaming gear right away because prices are about to get way worse. DRAM shortages keep getting nastier thanks to AI companies hoarding everything, and that means GPUs and RAM are going to cost a bunch more pretty soon. Santos says Black...
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    AOC unveils mini LED monitor, who needs OLED now

    AOC dropped two gaming monitors that actually seem pretty solid for once. The U27G4XM runs mini LED tech with 1152 dimming zones and hits HDR 1000 certification with 1200 nits peak brightness. You can swap between 4K at 160Hz or drop down to 1080p for 320Hz, depending on what you need. The color...
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    Beyond Good and Evil 2 is still hiring, is this game real

    Ubisoft just posted a job listing for a technical sound designer to work on Beyond Good and Evil 2 at their Montpellier studio. The person they hire will handle audio integration and make sure everything from voice acting to vehicle sounds actually functions properly under the audio director...
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    iPad mini 8 tipped for OLED leap, but what’s the catch

    Apple might drop the iPad mini 8 sometime between late 2026 and the end of that year. The big deal is that this becomes their first budget tablet getting OLED tech, which is a pretty massive shift for how they usually handle their cheaper products. Word is the screen bumps up to 8.5 inches from...
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    RX 9070 XT outpaces RTX 50 sales, but not everywhere

    AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT moved almost 925 cards at one German shop while the entire RTX 50 lineup combined barely hit 920 units. The flagship RDNA 4 card crushed the RTX 5070 Ti, which couldn't even crack 400 sales. The RX 9060 XT also did solid numbers with 515 units sold. Thing is, this trend...
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    Mirage boat flexes hit six figures, real boat envy unlocked

    Where Winds Meet just dropped globally on PC and PS5, and some whales have already dropped up to $68,000 on a single cosmetic boat called the Mirage Boat. The thing needs 170 special pages to unlock, and you get those by grinding through gacha draws that cost around $400 per core needed. Only...
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    Corsair Void V2 Max drops, finally one dongle to rule all

    Corsair dropped the Void V2 Max wireless headset at $149 but you can grab it for $120 during sales which makes the upgrade over the regular V2 model kind of worth checking out. The physical build stays identical at 303 grams with the same mesh cups but the Max packs better foam padding for...
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    Lies of P sequel teased, director says it won’t flop

    The guy behind Lies of P basically promised fans they are gonna love what comes next after scooping up the award for best expansion at the Golden Joystick Awards. Director Choi Ji-won told GamesRadar that Round8 and Neowiz are grinding away on something that will deliver maximum fun without...
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    Embracer offloads Cryptic and Arc Games, Remnant stays put

    Embracer Group just dumped Cryptic Studios and Arc Games to some fresh outfit called Project Golden Arc that got bankrolled by XD Inc. The whole operation gets run by the Arc Games leadership squad who basically bought their own company back. Cryptic made a bunch of MMOs like Star Trek Online...
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    Tachyum unveils TDIMM, open-source RAM that's actually wild

    Tachyum rolled out specs for its open source TDIMM memory standard that supposedly cranks bandwidth up by 5.5 times compared to regular DDR5 RDIMMs. The new modules jump from 51 GB/s to 281 GB/s while offering capacities ranging from 256 GB in standard height all the way to 1 TB in extra tall...
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    Stellar Blade dev teams with Tencent, Project Spirits goes multiplat

    SHIFT UP locked down a publishing agreement with Tencent subsidiary Level Infinite for their next title, called Project Spirits, that runs on Unreal Engine 5. The game hits PC plus consoles and mobile with Yongxing Interactive helping out on development duties. This marks the second time these...
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    Thunderobot drops Hygon C86 PCs, China finally flexes x86

    Chinese gaming PC maker Thunderobot dropped its first systems running Hygon C86 processors at some esports event instead of going with AMD or Intel chips. The 16-core CPUs have 32 threads with 32 MB cache and work with DDR5 memory plus PCIe 5.0 slots using a dual chiplet setup where each die...
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    Destiny 3 leaks hit, fans wonder if Bungie can save it

    Two leakers are saying Bungie started cooking up Destiny 3 after years of fans begging for it. The first hint dropped when Bungie_Leaks reposted protected info from another account mentioning early development plus some kind of Destiny 2 classic mode getting approved. Colony Deaks backed it up...
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    Death Stranding 2 PC rated, Sony still holding the reins

    The ESRB just dropped a rating for the PC port of Death Stranding 2 which basically means it's coming out soon. People are expecting Kojima Productions to announce it at The Game Awards since that show is where companies usually reveal their stuff alongside the actual awards. Sony Interactive...
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    Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 drops, flagship vibes minus the price

    Qualcomm just rolled out the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 as a cheaper alternative to their flagship 8 Elite Gen 5 chip that still packs solid specs. The new processor uses the same 3nm manufacturing process and CPU setup but runs at lower clock speeds with performance cores hitting 3.80GHz and efficiency...
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    Minisforum G1 Pro drops, finally a mini PC that slaps

    Minisforum dropped their G1 Pro gaming PC that packs an AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX processor with a desktop RTX 5060 GPU pushing 245W combined output. The thing runs a 350W power supply with 300W cooling that keeps it quiet while handling games and creative software. The white vertical case with RGB...
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