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Samsung plans to introduce High NA EUV lithography for its 1nm class process technology rather than using the expensive machines for earlier 2nm or 1.4nm nodes. The change reflects a more cautious approach to ASML’s newest lithography systems, which use a higher numerical aperture to print smaller chip features. Samsung had previously expected to use High NA EUV for volume production at more advanced

The 4TB Team Group T FORCE G50 PCIe 4.0 SSD has dropped to $390 at Newegg with a promo code, cutting more than $100 from its listed price of $495. The offer arrives during a difficult period for SSD pricing, with NAND and other memory related costs pushing storage prices higher across much of the market. Large capacity drives have been especially expensive, making

GIGABYTE has expanded its AORUS INFINITY graphics card lineup with new GeForce RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 models. The new cards follow the RTX 5090 INFINITY, which launched earlier, and carry over the same design language first shown at Computex 2026. The series focuses heavily on cooling, airflow and cleaner cable management, while one RTX 5080 model also introduces a wood

NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB has seen one of the sharpest price increases in the RTX 50 series, with its median US price reaching about $805 in August 2026. That puts the card roughly 88 percent above its original launch MSRP. The increase is also substantial compared with June, when the median price was about $570. Other RTX 50 series models have also

Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a 30 billion parameter open weight AI model designed to run locally on high end consumer hardware while supporting coding and agent based workloads. The model is notable for fitting within roughly 20GB of memory for its weights, allowing it to run on graphics cards with 24GB or 32GB of VRAM when additional memory for the KV cache is

Ghost of Yōtei is getting a Complete Edition on October 1, 2026, with a new story expansion, a survival mode, extra gear, additional cosmetics and other anniversary content. The full package will cost $69.99 and includes the base game, Ghost of Yōtei Legends, previously released Digital Deluxe content and the new expansion material. If you already own the base game, you can access the

Warner Bros. has officially confirmed that a second Hogwarts Legacy game is in development, marking the first formal acknowledgment of the sequel. The confirmation appeared in a new shareholder letter outlining the company’s wider games strategy. Warner Bros. said it expects its games business to contribute more meaningfully to profitability as its upcoming pipeline expands, specifically naming the second installment of Hogwarts Legacy. The

Amazon Game Studios is reducing its role in the MMO market by handing Western publishing and live operations for Throne and Liberty and Lost Ark back to their original developers. Throne and Liberty will transition to NC and FirstSpark Games in the fourth quarter of 2026, while Lost Ark will move to Smilegate in early 2027. The changes end Amazon’s direct operation of two

Dark Souls 3 is getting a major lighting overhaul through an upcoming path tracing mod that significantly changes how the game handles shadows, indirect lighting and environmental illumination. The project is being developed as a new version of the DS Lighting Engine, the same modding effort that previously brought path tracing to Dark Souls 2. A release date has not yet been announced, but

Pearl Abyss is planning a major expansion of Crimson Desert, with its first DLC scheduled for 2026 and a Nintendo Switch 2 version targeting the first half of 2027. The company also says Crimson Desert is intended to remain a long term flagship franchise, leaving the door open for additional content, more platform releases and possible sequels in the future. For now, the immediate

The Elder Scrolls VI has received a rare public update after Xbox CEO Asha Sharma visited Bethesda Game Studios and watched a live gameplay demonstration at the developer’s Rockville, Maryland office. Sharma described the game’s scale, story and overall presentation positively, while Bethesda later acknowledged the visit in its own response. Neither company revealed footage, a release date or new gameplay details. The exchange

Phantom Blade Zero preorders are now live, with the game available in Standard and Deluxe editions ahead of its October 29 launch on PC and PlayStation 5. Developer S GAME has also released a new 11 minute trailer featuring combat, new characters and additional story scenes. The studio confirmed that actor and martial artist Donnie Yen has worked on the project since 2023 as

Supermassive Games has begun another redundancy process that could affect up to 75 employees, marking the studio’s third round of layoffs in less than three years. The UK developer behind Until Dawn, The Quarry and The Dark Pictures Anthology said the latest cuts are intended to improve the long term sustainability of the company. The announcement comes less than three months after Directive 8020

Nintendo may be preparing to reveal the release date for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake after packaging designs for a limited edition Nintendo Switch 2 console and Pro Controller reportedly appeared online. The remake is still expected to launch in 2026, but Nintendo has not announced a specific date. The newly leaked hardware designs suggest the company could be getting closer

Remedy Entertainment has confirmed that Max Payne 1 and 2 Remake is still in full production, but the studio is not ready to share more about the project because Rockstar Games controls the publishing side. The clarification came alongside Remedy’s latest financial update. While the developer confirmed that work is continuing, it did not provide a release date, new footage or a more detailed

Star Wars Zero Company is shaping up as a turn based tactics game with clear similarities to XCOM, but its campaign structure adds several systems intended to make squad relationships, strategic choices and long term consequences matter. Set near the end of the Clone Wars, the game follows Hawks, a customizable former Republic officer leading a mercenary group known as Zero Company. Hawks can

Pokémon Pokopia has received its first major paid expansion with Bubbly Basin, alongside a free version 2.0 update that adds underwater exploration and several quality of life improvements. Bubbly Basin is the first of three planned content waves included in the $35 Pokémon Pokopia Expansion Pass. The new area centers on a large flooded region built around the ruins of Cerulean City, with new

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered is now available on Nintendo Switch 2, and an early comparison suggests the handheld version holds up better than expected against more powerful hardware. The Switch 2 version uses lower visual settings and a lower internal resolution than the PlayStation 5 and Xbox versions, but NVIDIA DLSS helps reconstruct a sharper final image. In the comparison cited in

Bethesda is looking into bringing some of the optimizations developed for the Nintendo Switch 2 version of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered to other platforms, including Xbox Series X|S. The possibility follows renewed criticism of the game’s performance on Xbox, where players have continued to report problems more than a year after release. Bethesda has now acknowledged requests for another patch and says

Xbox has revealed two limited edition wireless controllers inspired by Gears of War: E Day, along with a matching 8BitDo charging dock. The main controller is priced at $89.99 in the US and £84.99 in the UK, with preorders opening now. A second version will be available through Xbox Design Lab from September 30 and will offer a different visual design with extra customization