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South of Midnight Arrives on PS5 and Nintendo Switch 2 Later This Month After confirming that South of Midnight would be coming to PS5 and Nintendo Switch 2 sometime in Spring 2026 a few hours ahead of The Game Awards 2025, developer Compulsion Games has confirmed that its previously Xbox Series console exclusive will arrive on PS5 and Nintendo Switch 2 later this month on March 31, 2026. The release date for the new versions of the game came with a new trailer, which you can see below. After Avowed, Compulsion Games' South of Midnight was the next major release from an Xbox Game Studios team to hit shelves last year. Now, it'll […]
06.03.2026 20:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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SanDisk 256GB Extreme microSD Hits $34 All-Time Low (24% Off) SanDisk's 256GB Extreme microSD card drops to an all-time low of $34.28 on Amazon, saving you 24%.
06.03.2026 19:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Nintendo is Suing the US Government Over “Unlawful Impositions of Tariffs” Since April 2025, the wider video game industry has been discussing how Nintendo and other hardware makers would respond to the tariffs imposed by the current US government and how those tariffs would affect the price of devices and consumer sales. In all that discussion, the idea that Nintendo, despite its litigious nature, would respond with a lawsuit aimed at the US Government was not what you would call a popular guess. Well, Aftermath's latest report is a reminder to never underestimate Nintendo's willingness to go to court. Nintendo is officially suing the US Government, specifically Scott Bessent, Secretary of […]
06.03.2026 19:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“This Repulses Me” – Veteran Dev Criticizes GDC’s Focus on the “Festival of Gaming” at the Industry’s “Most Dire Point Since the Atari Crash” This year's Game Developers Conference (GDC) kicks off next Monday, and a controversy has already emerged following today's LinkedIn outburst by industry veteran Greg Costikyan. First things first, though: context. While not a household name among gamers like Hideo Kojima or Todd Howard, Costikyan is a renowned game designer whose career spans tabletop roleplaying games, board games, wargames, video games (he worked from 2019 to 2023 on Stars Reach, the upcoming sci-fi sandbox MMO by Playable Worlds, as Game Design Lead), and more. He also wrote four novels. A friend of Warren Spector (Ultima, System Shock, Deus Ex, Thief, Epic […]
06.03.2026 19:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Intel’s EMIB Challenges TSMC’s CoWoS as America’s Answer to the AI Packaging Bottleneck Intel's packaging services are being considered a viable alternative to TSMC's CoWoS, as supply constraints are forcing US fabless customers to seek other options. Intel's EMIB Packaging Orders Could Reach 'Billions in Revenue' Moving Into H2 2026; a New Prospect For the Foundry Business Advanced packaging has emerged as a major driver of computing power in modern-day AI architectures, and alongside semiconductors, solutions like CoWoS are seen as vital for firms like NVIDIA and AMD. With the start of the AI frenzy, advanced packaging has been dominated by TSMC, but as demand for CoWoS and derivatives ramps up, a supply […]
06.03.2026 18:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Galaxy S26 Series’ Sales Are Pulling Ahead Of The S25 Lineup’s, Incentivizing Samsung’s Laziness Despite putting forth what is largely an iterative update with the new Galaxy S26 series, Samsung appears to be raking in higher sales relative to the last year's Galaxy S25 series, at least as per initial impressions. Should this trend continue, however, it risks rewarding complacency, one that might feasibly result in progressively less competitive offerings from Samsung further down the line. Samsung Galaxy S26 series has recorded a pre-order volume of 1.35 million units in South Korea so far Samsung has now revealed that its initial pre-order volume for the new Galaxy S26 series stands at 1.35 million units […]
06.03.2026 17:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New Report Suggests Sony was Losing Out on PC Sales of SP-Games Due to its Reluctance Towards Same-Day PC/PS5 Launches PC players are still reeling from Bloomberg's report earlier this week that Sony will be pulling back on its strategy of putting its first-party PlayStation titles on PC. Ghost of Yotei and Saros are the first two that seemingly won't be making the jump, and it doesn't seem like any PlayStation Studios titles (at least the single-player ones) will get PC ports in the future. The key element as to why Sony is backing off from putting its single-player games on PC fell on claims that it simply wasn't worth it. Despite the first batch of PlayStation titles selling well […]
06.03.2026 17:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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M5 Pro Is Just A Hairline Slower Than The M5 Max & M3 Ultra In New Multi-Core Comparison, Beats M4 Max To Become Apple’s ‘Price To Performance’ SoC Apple’s M5 Max delivered some decent performance gains over the M4 Max in Geekbench 6’s single-core and multi-core results, with the most impressive feat for the 18-core CPU configuration being that it beat the top-end M3 Ultra in both tests. Now, it is time to look at the technology giant’s ‘middle of the pack’ SoC, the M5 Pro, and according to the latest single-threaded and multi-threaded benchmarks, it nearly matches its powerful brother while trading blows with Apple’s current-generation workstation-class SoC. In short, the company has made an M4 Pro on steroids. Thanks to Apple’s new Fusion Architecture, the M5 Pro packs as […]
06.03.2026 16:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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RoboCop: Rogue City was Briefly Replaced With What Seems to be an Unannounced New 3D Hunter: The Reckoning Game on Steam This is probably the oddest way for what appears to be a fairly major leak to appear. RoboCop: Rogue City developer Teyon seems to have accidentally leaked its next project, or an early build of a project that never got off the ground, or an early build of its next project. That's all unclear, but what's happened is that someone at Teyon accidentally swapped RoboCop: Rogue City out with an entirely different game when updating it on Steam, revealing what could potentially be a new 3D Hunter: The Reckoning game. First noted by X (formerly Twitter) user Silent, an update […]
06.03.2026 16:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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ASRock Achieves 7400 MT/s With 256 GB CQDIMM DDR5 On Z890I Nova WiFi R2.0 Higher memory speeds are finally possible on high capacity DDR5 configuration, as demonstrated by ASRock on its Z890I Nova WiFi. ASRock Demonstrates CQDIMM Support With 256 GB DDR5-7400 Memory Configuration on Z890I Nova WiFi R2.0 Reaching higher memory speeds becomes difficult as you increase the memory capacity. While most users don't have a problem reaching 7000 MT/s or much higher on 32 GB or even 64 GB DDR5 memory kits, doing the same with a high capacity RAM kits, such as 256 GB, becomes incredibly difficult. This problem arises due to signal noise and jitter, which makes high frequencies unstable […]
06.03.2026 15:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Nintendo’s Fifth Nintendo Direct of 2026 is…Another Super Mario Galaxy Movie Direct Earlier this week, Nintendo hosted its fourth Nintendo Direct event of 2026, and considering that we're only a few days into March at the time of this writing, that's a pretty condensed window for the Mario company to be setting up what players can look forward to for the year. Today, Nintendo has already announced it will host a fifth Nintendo Direct event next week, but it's not the kind you were hoping for. Instead of following up Tuesday's Indie World Showcase Direct with a larger, general Nintendo Direct like Nintendo has in the past, the very next Direct event […]
06.03.2026 15:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus Leaked In PassMark; 16% Higher Multi-Threaded Performance Vs Ultra 5 245K A new benchmark appears just a week before the launch. The Core Ultra 5 250K Plus is the new and fastest mid-range Intel desktop CPU. Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus Benchmarked in PassMark for the First Time, Delivering 50,478 Points in Multi-Threaded and 4,854 Points in Single-Core Tests Just a while ago, we reported that HP is preparing its new OMEN 35L Gaming Desktop with the upcoming Core Ultra 7 270K Plus processor, and now we just spotted another Arrow Lake Refresh chip. As we have mentioned before several times, the Arrow Lake Refresh lineup is going to be […]
06.03.2026 14:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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MegaCrit Takes a Jab at Marathon as Slay the Spire 2 Has a Massive Launch With Over 420K Concurrent Players on Steam Yesterday, two major titles were released at the same time on Steam (and one of them also launched on PS5 and Xbox Series). Bungie's new extraction shooter, Marathon, and indie developer MegaCrit's highly anticipated sequel to its beloved rougelike deckbuilder, Slay the Spire 2. When both games launched - as X (formerly Twitter) user Wario64 noted - their launch numbers for concurrent player counts on Steam were actually hand in hand, with both games reaching 80K+ concurrent players. Marathon would continue to peak at 88,337 concurrent players. Slay the Spire 2, on the other hand, was just getting started. At […]
06.03.2026 14:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘It is Still In Development’ Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake is Still In The Works, Saber Confirms The Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake is officially "still in development," as confirmed by Saber Interactive CCO Tim Willits in a new interview with IGN. The statement provides a rare moment of reassurance for a fanbase that has spent years wondering if the project had quietly joined the list of canceled projects of the past few months. Unfortunately, this is where the good news ends today. Willits did not provide any additional information on the remake, saying that confirming its development status is all that he could say. “Yes, it is still in development. That’s all I […]
06.03.2026 14:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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HP Prepares HyperX OMEN 35L Desktop With Core Ultra 7 270K Plus, A Newer 24-Core/24-Thread CPU Another strong indication that Intel is going to release the Arrow Lake Refresh desktop processors very soon. HyperX OMEN 35L Gaming Desktop With Core Ultra 7 270K Plus Spotted: 24 Cores and Up To 5.4 GHz Boost Clock While we await the official unveil and launch of Core Ultra 200 Refresh desktop CPUs, OEMs have started preparing their next-gen systems with these CPUs. As of now, several solid reports have confirmed the existence of the Core Ultra 200K Plus, aka Arrow Lake Refresh CPUs. We have seen some of them getting leaked in benchmarks, and it's expected that these will […]
06.03.2026 14:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ashes of Creation CEO Obtains First Legal Victory with TRO Against TFE and the Board There's been a major development in the ongoing Ashes of Creation legal battle: Intrepid Studios founder and CEO Steven Sharif has obtained his first legal victory against the board, obtaining a TRO (Temporary Restraining Order) from a judge. As a reminder, following the sudden implosion of the game and its removal from Steam, not to mention the fraud accusations levied by one of the game's investors, Sharif was targeted with a lawsuit filed by TFE Games Holdings on February 9, 2026, in the Nevada District Court, Clark County. However, he quickly filed his own lawsuit against Robert Dawson (the major investor behind […]
06.03.2026 13:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The NAND Crisis Is Now Worse Than DRAM; Samsung Is Doubling Prices for the Second Quarter in a Row Samsung's NAND supply is now expected to see a significant price hike, as the Korean giant, like DRAM, plans to capitalize entirely on demand from the AI sector. NAND Prices Are Getting Out of Control, And It Could Have Devastating Impacts on the PC Market The PC industry is set to face another crisis from memory suppliers, and after being disrupted by AI customers' demand for DRAM, it appears NAND is next. According to a report by the Korean media outlet Sedaily, Samsung now plans to hike prices by a whopping 100% in Q2, following a similar hike in Q1. […]
06.03.2026 12:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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PlayStation 6 Reportedly Won’t Be Delayed Due to RAM Costs: “It Would Cost More to Delay Than to Pay Extra” The PlayStation 6 will reportedly stick to its 2027/early 2028 launch window despite rising component costs, as the financial penalty for delaying TSMC 3nm production far outweighs the current "RAMmageddon" price hikes. Despite recent rumors suggesting a push to 2029, insider Moore’s Law Is Dead argues that Sony’s production contracts with TSMC and the massive development costs already sunk into the system's Orion APU would make a significant delay extremely problematic. According to the report shared in a new YouTube video, Sony has reportedly already secured its 3nm manufacturing allotment from TSMC for Q2 2027. Pulling out now would be […]
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NETGEAR’s Nighthawk RS90 Is An Absurdly Insane Value On Amazon, $91.99 For A Wi-Fi 7 Router With Dual-Band Functionality Is A Literal Steal The Nighthawk RS90 will definitely compete with TP-Link’s affordable Wi-Fi 7 routers because it has dropped to an incredibly low price of $91.99, thanks to a 29 percent discount from Amazon. Now, whether you want to upgrade your home or work wireless networking equipment, that can easily be done for less than $100. With wireless coverage of up to 2,000 square feet, the NETGEAR Nighthawk RS90 Wi-Fi 7 router will also eliminate those ‘dead zones.’ The dual-band Wi-Fi 7 router can reach speeds of 3.6Gbps, making it lightning-fast for gaming, seamless video streaming, video conferencing, and more. Thanks to the […]
06.03.2026 12:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘This is Going To Be Pretty Powerful’: Next-Gen Xbox Project Helix Will Reportedly Be At Least 5x Faster In Rasterization, 20x in Ray Tracing Than Series X The next-generation Xbox, codenamed "Project Helix," will reportedly deliver a 6x jump in rasterization and a massive 20x increase in ray tracing performance over the Series X. According to a new technical analysis from Moore’s Law is Dead, the console’s AMD Magnus APU will bridge the gap between console and PC gaming with a massive performance leap, but it will come with a significant catch: early estimates suggest a target price between $999 and $1,200 for its possible 2027 launch The Xbox Project Helix Will Deliver More Than 120 FPS Gameplay While the Magnus APU reportedly features only 30% more […]
06.03.2026 11:24 👍 0 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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Radeon RX 9000 Series GPUs See Big Price Drops As Japanese Retailer Ark PC Launches Spring Special Discounts We are not only seeing RDNA 4 GPUs gradually dropping in prices in some regions, but retailers are now also providing hefty discounts on some models. Ark PC Lists Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB for Just $379 and RX 9070 XT for $632 in Spring Sale Deals Not long ago, we saw the AMD RDNA 4 GPUs starting to drop in prices in some regions. After a continuous price increase over several weeks, the Japanese market saw some relief as the demand dropped for overpriced GPUs. The RX 9000 prices were climbing quickly in the last few months due […]
06.03.2026 10:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Take a Look at this “Scenic Drive Gameplay” featuring Forza Horizon 6’s Stunning Rendition of Japan A few hours ago, IGN kicked off its Forza Horizon 6 IGN First coverage with a 9-minute gameplay video of "scenic driving" across the game's stunning rendition of Japan. The footage covers a cruise from the south of the map through various biomes, into the outskirts of Tokyo, around its fringe, and back north, ending at one of the game's permanent race circuits. These multiple distinct biomes blend into each other nicely, based on the video. IGN clarified that the traffic in the gameplay video was deliberately toned down by Playground Games to help viewers absorb the surroundings and biomes […]
06.03.2026 10:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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MacBook Neo Performs Equal To The iPhone 16 Pro In New Benchmark, Binned A18 Pro Gets A Negligible Penalty In GPU Test The A18 Pro found in the newly announced MacBook Neo is slightly different from the silicon powering the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max, as Apple has resorted to chip-binning, giving a 5-core GPU to the portable Mac, while its older-generation flagship smartphones are treated to a 6-core GPU. Fortunately, a new benchmark leak shows there’s practically no difference between the two SoCs. The 6-core GPU belonging to the iPhone 16 Pro Max’s A18 Pro is only 5.6 percent faster compared to the 5-core GPU running in the MacBook Neo The $599 portable Mac with the unique identifier Mac17,5 […]
06.03.2026 10:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Blizzard Unveils Diablo IV’s Warlock, Lets Players Be The Butcher in Season of Slaughter During yesterday's Diablo IV livestream, Blizzard provided a deep dive into the Warlock class coming with the Lord of Hatred expansion and also shared details on the Season of Slaughter that will go live next week. In this article: Everything About The Warlock Class The Warlock, the game's eighth class, was designed as a dark, frontline demonologist rather than a traditional back-row caster. The Warlock is someone who has been through hell (literally), uses demons as brutal tools rather than allies, and isn't above collateral damage. Visually, the main inspiration was the heavy metal culture. The class uses two resources: […]
06.03.2026 10:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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CAPCOM Spotlight Delivers an Earlier Launch Date for PRAGMATA and New Trailers for the Other Games The CAPCOM Spotlight livestream was pretty stacked with new trailers and even some news, such as PRAGMATA launching a week earlier than expected. Originally scheduled for Friday, April 24, 2026, the action/adventure game based on a new sci-fi IP will debut on Friday, April 17, 2026. There is a little exception to this: in Japan and across Asia, the Nintendo Switch 2 version of PRAGMATA is still launching on the original date of April 24. The CAPCOM Spotlight also debuted a new PRAGMATA trailer showcasing previously unseen locales in the game's lunar setting. These include the moon's surface and a […]
06.03.2026 09:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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NVIDIA Secured 94% GPU Market Share In Q4 25, AIB Market Gripped By Rising Prices The GPU market share report for Q4 2025 shows NVIDIA leading with a dominating 94% figure as the AIB market is gripped by rising prices. AIB GPU Market Getting Crushed By Rising Prices Due To Memory Shortages, But NVIDIA Still Managed To Increase Its Sharehold The latest GPU AIB market share report is out by Jon Peddie Research, covering Q4 2025. As per the report, the overall AIB shipments decreases -4.4%, dropping down to 11.5 million units. With a CAGR (Compund Annual Growth Rate) of -5.9% (2024-2028), the AIB installed base is expected to hit 172 million units with a […]
06.03.2026 07:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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M5 Max With 18-Core CPU Obtains A Small 10% Performance Bump Over M4 Max In New Benchmark Leak, Most Impressive Feat Is Beating 32-Core M3 Ultra The new Fusion Architecture allows Apple to cram in more CPU cores in the M5 Max, with its top-end configuration flaunting six super and 12 performance cores to deliver incredible multi-core performance. However, in the latest single-threaded and multi-threaded benchmark leak, the SoC secures an almost negligible improvement over the M4 Max. While this is disappointing to learn, there is a silver lining, as the M5 Max beats the workstation-class M3 Ultra in the same comparison, making it its most astounding feat ever. Despite a plethora of performance cores on the M3 Ultra, Apple’s newest M5 Max outperforms it by almost […]
05.03.2026 23:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Nothing Phone (4a) Pro Just Showed Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Series How To Do Innovation The Nothing Phone (4a) Pro is now teaching a lesson to those willing to learn: a masterclass in how to debut new tech, replete with genuine innovation rather than gimmicks and outright falsehood à la what Samsung just did at its Galaxy Unpacked event for the new S26 series. Samsung's disastrous Galaxy Unpacked event: Pre-leaks and falsehoods For the benefit of those who might not be aware, Samsung experienced a particularly egregious bout of channel leaks in the run up to its Galaxy Unpacked event, one that saw an unreleased Galaxy S26 Ultra fall into the hands of a tech […]
05.03.2026 21:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Apple CEO Tim Cook’s Statement From Earlier This Year Explains A Lot Why The MacBook Neo Doesn’t Ship With The A19 Pro The record-breaking Q1 2026 quarter saw Apple bring in a mammoth $143.756 billion, but this impressive figure was also accompanied by a statement made by CEO Tim Cook, hinting at which silicon would be found in the newly announced MacBook Neo. The A18 Pro found in the latter is still an insanely powerful chip, but the A19 Pro is on another level, and had it not been for the supply situation, we’d be getting a different set of specifications for the latest low-cost portable Mac. Supply constraints from TSMC’s end meant that Apple couldn’t secure sufficient A19 Pro shipments to […]
05.03.2026 21:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The U.S. Could Soon Turn NVIDIA and AMD’s AI Chips Into a Foreign Policy Tool, With Not a Single Country Being Left Out The Trump administration is exploring options to address AI chip exports, and initial reports suggest the proposed regulations are far more aggressive than the industry anticipated. The US Is Planning New AI Chip Export Regulations, By Looking at Compute Power Being Shipped Out The debate around AI chip exports has emerged several times since chip manufacturers like NVIDIA and AMD achieved significant compute breakthroughs. This matter was also under intense focus by the Biden administration, which introduced the "AI Diffusion" act that addresses AI chip exports by categorizing countries into different levels, each with its own caveats. The Diffusion Act […]
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