LOTRO Legendarium: Four quality-of-life improvements that are overdue in LOTRO
While it’s always easy to make a list of suggestions for an MMO you love, it’s helpful to acknowledge that it’s a lot more difficult...
RIFT’s invading Hellbugs are skittering across the MMORPG again for the rest of this weekend
They’re not Heckbugs. They’re not even the fully original Hellbugs. They’re the RIFT Shiny Hellbugs and they’re back for another weekend romp in Telara for the remainder...
Save $500 on this beastly gaming rig with an RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, Ryzen 7800X3D, and 32GB of RAM — Skytech’s desktop gaming PC now just $1,499
Looking for a solid gaming PC but tired of seeing exorbitant prices on every retailer’s website? We’ve got you covered with this prebuilt, equipped with high-quality components ready for 1440p gaming and more, with a clear upgrade path once prices settle down.
More than 75 data center build-outs worth $130 billion have been successfully blocked in the first four months of 2026 — bipartisan opposition mounts nationwide over fears of soaring power and water costs
A research firm says the number of blocked data centers in the first quarter of 2026 already matches the number of projects stopped in 2025. The opposition also comes from both sides of the aisle, despite President Trump’s push for more AI development inside the U.S.
AMD challenges Nvidia’s DGX Spark with $3,999 Ryzen AI Halo with Windows 11 support — Strix Halo desktop undercuts Nvidia by $700, packs 128GB of unified memory
Powered by the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor and 128GB of unified memory, AMD’s developer kit arrives as a direct competitor to Nvidia’s DGX Spark, which recently saw a price increase to $4,699.
WRUP: Every toy version of G1 Devastator from Transformers
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Netgear countersues TP-Link, saying firm ‘remains, at its core, a Chinese company selling Chinese-made products’ — alleges its ‘American company’ rebrand is false advertising
Netgear filed counterclaims against TP-Link in federal court in Delaware on June 11, accusing its larger rival of false advertising under the Lanham Act.
Nvidia raises RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPU pricing to $13,250 — 55% increase over MSRP in a year’s time
Nvidia now sells the RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell graphics cards for $13,250, while partner offerings start at $11,359.99.
AMD Ryzen AI Halo Dev Kits Hit Retail With 128GB RAM And $3,999 Price Tag
After debuting at CES earlier this year, AMD’s powerful Ryzen AI Halo developer platform is a go for launch, with Micro Center posting a pair of listings priced at $3,999.99 each. The two available models are the same from a hardware standpoint, just that one comes with Windows 11 Pro installed and the other runs an unspecified Linux OS.
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AI costs spike as subscriptions hit pricing wall — firms turn towards Chinese LLMs, open-source models to extend budget
Companies look for cheaper alternatives as token costs for frontier AI models skyrocket, potentially impacting OpenAI and Anthropic’s bottom lines. Subscriptions also take a bite out of these startup’s profitability, as utilization rates higher than 5.7% could lead to losses.