Steam survey shows GPUs with 16GB are now the most popular graphics cards — and that really doesn’t bode well for gamers’ wallets
With more GPU price hikes apparently inbound, gamers are going to struggle to get the VRAM they crave.
Kakao mobile MMO Odin Valhalla Rising merges western servers and implements paid server transfers
After more than a year of live operation, the Korean mobile MMO Odin: Valhalla Rising took action to merge its underperforming servers into fewer but...
RUST boss Alistair McFarlane has left Facepunch and will not be saving New World after all
Facepunch Studios, aside from having a charming name that is also very fitting for the developers of RUST, has been directed by Alistair McFarlane for some...
Samsung Bans Smart TV Apps That Secretly Share Home Internet
Samsung announced in a statement that it will be removing all apps that share users’ Internet connections following an exposé from Mnemonic researchers that revealed select apps, including an Editor’s Choice-marked Pac-Man port, contained secret proxy exit node functionality.
We warned back in May that your smart TV is already spying on
OpenAI Blasts ‘Careless’ Apple Lawsuit In Fiery Public Response
High-stakes Silicon Valley lawsuits are usually dry, legally cautious affairs fought through polite corporate PR statements, but OpenAI just threw out the rulebook with a scorching, highly irregular blog post that essentially accuses Apple of sloppy legal work, administrative incompetence, and an “oddly personal” grudge against its former
Windows 11 Runs Perfectly With 8GB Of RAM And Other Amusing Musings By Microsoft
Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft's executive VP for Windows and Devices who recently castigated LG for dumping non-Microsoft pop up advertising on Windows machines, now has posted...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 575: I’m turning this car around and going back to Mordor
Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO Worlds of Mordor, Elder Scrolls Online, Stars Reach, Closers, and ArcheAge S, with adventures in LOTRO, Guild Wars 2, Eterspire,...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Eclesiar, Farwoods, and Stalzone
Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer games you’ve never heard of! And technically speaking, you’ve heard of at least one of the...
SK Hynix And SanDisk Unleash High-Bandwidth Flash To Fix AI Bottlenecks
At the Future of Memory and Storage (FMS) 2026 conference in Santa Clara, memory titans SK hynix and SanDisk have formally released the first open technical specification for High-Bandwidth Flash (HBF) through the Open Compute Project. Developed in tandem with key ecosystem partners including Google DeepMind and Tenstorrent, this new specification
Microsoft’s Leaked Xbox 360 PC Plan Could Change Game Preservation
An internal Microsoft roadmap leaked to The Verge bodes extremely well for the future of the Xbox business and game preservation in general, but a few questions and concerns remain. The good news first is that as we suspected due to the existing Xbox-to-PC emulator already being based on the 360’s Backward Compatibility code, the Xbox-to-PC