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Phantom Blade Zero director insisted it isn't a "Soulslike", but day-one PC mods add FromSoftware's enemy respawns and boss resets. 🔗
AMD Adrenalin 26.10.2 patches driver timeouts and crashes on Radeon RX 9000/7000 series, but new known issues still hit many GPUs. 🔗
BioWare's Mass Effect team of around 50 people lost out to Star Wars Battlefront 3 as EA sidelined Laura Miele, its key advocate. 🔗
Intel Nova Lake rumored to deliver 20% higher gaming performance vs. Arrow Lake and a solid 17% single-threaded improvement with the bLLC variant. 🔗
AI boom triggers massive PCB shortage with orders booked until 2030, posing big challenges for consumer hardware vendors. 🔗
Radeon RX 9000 series cards will likely cost more within weeks as AMD hikes GPU-memory bundle prices for board partners in November. 🔗
PlayStation 6 and Xbox Project Helix are set to cost over $1,000, but Sony's cloud gaming patent could make streaming a reliable entry point. 🔗
The patent describes an AI-powered compression technology that reduces the amount of data needed to stream a game. It removes selected portions of each image before transmission, then uses another AI model on the receiving device to reconstruct the missing details.
This could reduce bandwidth requirements and latency, potentially making cloud gaming more responsive even with slower internet connections.
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RTX 5080 is the next GPU to disappear from NVIDIA's online marketplace following reports that a 24GB VRAM variant is arriving soon. 🔗
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma pointed to record Minecraft and World of Warcraft Forever sales, but Circana sees no impact from her initiatives. 🔗
"Everything they're doing seems to be getting Twitter likes from the most passionate part of their fan base, but other than that, in terms of the actual results, I'm not seeing anything right now."
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Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan says Nova Lake will fill the high-end client CPU gap, Coral Rapids "14A" to be competitive against AMD, and next-gen to take the lead over EPYC. 🔗
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NVIDIA's RTX 5080 24 GB could arrive as early as December with 50% more VRAM. 🔗
ASUS reportedly shipped back $1,300 monitor unrepaired with USB ports missing; asks for a $1,300 deposit for an "advanced" replacement. 🔗
DDR5 RAM prices skyrocket 761% in a year in Japan, as 128 GB Corsair kit now costs as much as a high-end gaming PC. 🔗
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma teased eight letters after The Elder Scrolls VI, and The Verge now claims Bethesda's sequel is called Sentinel. 🔗
Samsung says memory shortages will get worse in 2027, and supply constraints will persist into 2028, with up to 70% of capacity secured by long-term agreement customers. 🔗
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Zelda: Ocarina of Time is one of the best games of all time, yet producer Aonuma is "nervous" about the Nintendo Switch 2 remake. 🔗
Square Enix's Dragon Quest VIII players no longer have to choose between PS2 visuals and 3DS content, as unofficial PC port hits version 0.7.1. 🔗
World of Warcraft Forever's gamepad support fuels console hopes as Holly Longdale mentions Project Helix: "Play it wherever" and eventually "on whatever". 🔗
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Microsoft unveils biggest DirectX raytracing upgrade since 2018, bringing more efficient ray tracing to NVIDIA, AMD and Intel GPUs. 🔗
Former Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger backs breakthrough new memory technology that could resolve big AI chip bottleneck. 🔗
