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'There are limits to how much prices can be raised' says SK hynix chairman about memory crisis but I'm not sure the market will care

The PC hardware market right now is not a pretty sight, so it's nice to hear one of the companies arguably at least in part responsible acknowledging how bad things are from a customer's perspective. Even if that is taken with the giant pinch of salt considering it's being approached from a business perspective, and di...

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Turns out Todd Howard is a full-time Reddit lurker just like the rest of us, says we'd 'be surprised how many great ideas' he gets from the site

Well, it turns out that Bethesda's executive producer Todd Howard and I have at least two things in common—we're both roughly 5 feet 6 inches tall, and we're both chronic Reddit lurkers. Admittedly, I only have IMDB to go by when it comes to the height thing. Maybe it's wrong! But the Reddit thing is 100% true, because...

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My Hero Academia 10th Anniversary Exhibition Announced

Fans of My Hero Academia are in for a treat, as a special exhibition celebrating the 10th anniversary of its anime adaptation will be held in early 2027. The popular shonen manga series ended its run in Weekly Shonen Jump in 2024, with the anime, produced by Studio Bones, concluding in December 2025. During its run, My...

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Remembering Blades And The Original Xbox 360 Interface

Xbox is in a strange place right now. Amid a mess of cancelled projects and mass layoffs, it is difficult to know exactly what the future might hold for the console giant. Throughout many points in its history, though, it was on top of the world. The first round of hardware never truly set the world on fire, but the po...

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Activision has confirmed the Call of Duty movie setting, and it's not what I'd have picked

I'm not sure who thinks we need a Call of Duty movie, but it's officially a thing, and it's coming out on June 30, 2028. It's "an authentic and exciting experience for longtime fans and newcomers alike." While this tidbit was confirmed earlier in the year, Activision and Paramount gave us little more than that in the m...

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When Is Retro Studios No Longer Retro Studios?

Game studios are Ships of Theseus, and some of them may soon be unrecognizable

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Battlefield 6 Season 4 Preview

Battlefield 6 Season 4 is bringing naval warfare back in a big way. I spent some time with the season's first phase, Pacific Front, at a recent hands-on preview event, and one thing became clear almost immediately: Tsuru Reef, the map anchoring the season’s return to the water, is gigantic. I’d wager that when Battlefi...

1 month ago 👁 6
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Battlefield 6's newest and largest map is good, but I worry it will end up being nothing more than a curiosity

There's been one thought I haven't been able to shake during my time with Battlefield 6's upcoming Tsuru Reef map - the game's biggest yet, which arrives tomorrow with Season 4. Tsuru Reef is the item on a restaurant's menu that you tell yourself you'll try one day, yet you keep ordering the usual every time you visit....

1 month ago 👁 8
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After Doom director Hugo Martin denied reports that id Software had been gutted, "current and former employees" are disagreeing with his optimism

It's been two weeks since Microsoft announced 3,200 layoffs and sweeping cuts hit the Xbox division. Not even well-established institutions like Doom and Quake studio id Software were safe - with the first reports painting a very bleak picture - yet Hugo Martin, director on the latest Doom entries, pushed back against...

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The Internet Reacts To The First Avengers: Doomsday Trailer: ‘It’s Literally Just Things Happening With No Buildup’

The long-awaited next chapter in the MCU is being greeted with some hype but also lots of exhaustion

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Stop Taking Your Frustrations With PlayStation Out on Indie Developers

Listen, I can understand why people are mad at PlayStation after its announcement that it would soon be adopting an all-digital future. As much as we might hate to admit it, that's the reality most consumers have been investing in, so it's no surprise that it's happening—PlayStation is just one of the first to fully co...

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FBI accuse Steam user of stealing over $220,000 via malware-infected games like BlockBlasters, Lunara and Dashverse

A Florida-based student has been arrested by the FBI after allegedly stealing over $220,000 in cryptocurrency by means of malware-packed free games on Steam. Read more

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