MMO Business Roundup: Nintendo’s US patent, The Crew lawsuit, Epic helps a terminally ill former dev
Welcome back to yet another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news! This time around we’ve got a pretty big beefy bundle of news for...
Save $100 on the gaming powerhouse AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D, now $246 on Amazon — budget-friendly X3D processor with 96MB cache, low power draw, and excellent gaming performance
The Ryzen 5 7600X3D delivers X3D-level gaming performance at a significantly lower cost than higher-end models
Nvidia App adds ‘Auto Shader Compilation’ for faster load times in games — beta feature automatically recompiles shaders in the background after every driver update
The Nvidia App can now automatically recompile shaders for you in the background after every GPU driver update. This should save gamers several minutes across different titles, especially blockbuster ones, where shader compilation can often delay your session. You still need to compile shaders for the first time after a new install, however.
Starlink Satellite Breaks Apart In Orbit As SpaceX Confirms Major Hardware Anomaly
SpaceX has confirmed an orbital anomaly involving a Starlink satellite that fragmented into dozens of pieces, raising fresh concerns about space debris even as the company maintains that the event poses no threat to major upcoming missions like Artemis II. The incident marks the second fragment creation event for the constellation in recent
April Fools’ Day pranks and events around the MMORPG and MMO world, 2026 edition
There’s a brief moment every April 1st when I wake up and haven’t remembered what day it is yet, and I go into feeds and...
Win An AMD Gaming PC: Enter HotHardware’s Biwin, ZOTAC & MSI Giveaway
It’s giveaway time again here at HotHardware. This promotion will feature some serious horsepower via a custom, hand-built by HH Gaming PC sponsored by our friends at Biwin, Zotac and MSI, in conjunction with LANFest’s philanthropic support efforts going on at PAX East this weekend for fantastic charities like Make-A-Wish.
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DRAM prices predicted to jump 63% in Q2, NAND up to 75% — follows 95% jumps in Q1, Trendforce says AI server demand keeps supply tight
Conventional DRAM contract prices will rise 58% to 63% quarter-over-quarter in Q2 2026, while NAND Flash contract prices will jump 70% to 75% QoQ.
Arm to sell its new AGI CPU in China — ‘we would expect the demand for this product to be just as strong in China as it is in the rest of the world’
Arm appears to be eligible to sell its 136-core Neoverse V3-based AGI processor to customers in China.
SWTOR vaguely teases its much-hyped 8.0 update and shows off its impending DirectX 12 migration
Broadsword’s Keith Kanneg dropped a quarterly producer letter for Star Wars The Old Republic with a fresh peek at what’s coming for the MMORPG as...
PC makers report surging prices across different components — increasing costs are going beyond memory chip and processors, now affecting PCBs, plastic materials, and more
PC manufacturers are facing surging costs from various suppliers. Price hikes affect everything from chips and processors to packaging and plastics.