Microsoft surprised the console community when, just a few days ago, it announced a round of significant price hikes to its Xbox hardware lineup, including new MSRPs for its aging Xbox Series X and Xbox Series X systems ranging from $80 to $130 more than the launch prices. That’s a tough pill to swallow for a nearly five-year-old platform.

Rumors of a bigger Battlemage GPU’s demise may have been greatly exaggerated. Tech sleuth Haze spotted something interesting in the public shipping database over at NBD DATA: multiple entries for things like “SOCKET STIFFENER (STF), DESIGNED FOR BATTLEMAGE-G31.” The listings are dated late March and were destined for Intel Vietnam, which handles

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion remaster has been everything fans of the original could have hoped for. Old mods work surprisingly well and muhc of the fondly remembered quirkiness of the game is still there. Despite all of the improvements in the remaster though, there’s still plenty of loading screens, which are a staple of Bethesda games

Life’s Good with an OLED display, and soon enough it might be better still. LG Display has announced a mass commercialization breakthrough and will soon fire-up its “Dream OLED” display production lines.

LG Display calls the upgraded for Hybrid Tandem OLED, describing the way in which its researchers stacked two blue light-emitting elements

Apple iPhone 16e (starts at $699, as reviewed $899) The iPhone 16e is Apple’s new entry-level smartphone. It’s a great phone that’s simply too expensive, considering it lacks an ultrawide camera and high refresh-rate display. Clean, simple design Beautiful display Nice cameras Excellent speakers Solid performance Good battery…