Nvidia reportedly cancels partner incentive scheme to sell cards at MSRP, says YouTuber Der8auer, signalling hard times ahead for GPU prices

Facing a worldwide memory shortage crisis and threats of further tariffs, Nvidia has reportedly cancelled its OPP, a program intended to incentivise AIBs to sell its cards at MSRP. If true, and if such a program exists, this means pricing on Nvidia cards is expected to get much worse going forward. This is all according…

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In less than 1 week, Blizzard’s sliced WoW’s transmog costs in half after upset to ‘bring them more in line with what the prices were prior’

If there’s one thing this World of Warcraft player has learnt from this new, post-Shadowlands Blizzard, it is this: While they are a little (okay, a lot) messier, they do tend to move quickly. So quickly in fact that it’s become a bit of a cycle for WoW to have updates where something’s borked—rewards systems,…

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‘There’s no way that’s real’: Marvel Rivals devs send streamer Kingsman free units after he got wrongfully kicked out of a $40,000 Marvel Rivals tournament

The Marvel Rivals esports community was embroiled in new drama over the weekend after a streamer tournament that was originally put on to celebrate and show off the addition of Deadpool to the roster went wrong. The $40k tournament, hosted by BasimZB, started getting traction after Kingsman265_ (the top-ranked Magik player) revealed that he was…

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Hytale wants to ‘achieve ultimate cosy heaven’ by improving farming, cooking, and more with a specialist team

Hytale already scratches that cosy itch somewhat, thanks to its much more intricate decorating than the likes of Minecraft, Stardew Valley, or even Animal Crossing. You’ve got proper furniture, all kinds of trinkets, and even vertical slabs that let you create a lovely, detailed refuge in Orbis. But cosy gamers are ironically a ravenous bunch,…

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After killing its multiplatform mod manager, Nexus revives its spirit with an announcement that its Windows-only app will support SteamOS in future

Cast your mind back to Monday, and you might remember me telling you that the Nexus Mods App—Nexus Mods’ skunkworks mod manager that supported both Windows and Linux/SteamOS—was being Old Yeller’d so the site’s devs could focus entirely on Vortex, its venerable, Windows-only mod wrangler. Nexus promised that it would look into supporting Linux for…

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Intel has the memory chips it needs to keep shipping Lunar Lake: ‘we were relatively aggressive in terms of getting the memory early’

Intel says it has enough memory stockpiled to continue to sell Lunar Lake to plan. According to CFO, David Zinsner, the company has dodged the worst of the ongoing memory crisis by being “relatively aggressive” in securing memory for the mobile chip. “I think we’ve got what we need based on the current forecast,” Zinsner…

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Asus starts an ‘immediate internal review’ on its 800-series motherboards in light of ‘recent reports concerning Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs’

Imagine that you’d just bought a new Ryzen 7 9800X3D, the best gaming CPU around right now. You drop it into your AM5 socket motherboard and start enjoying the freshly boosted frame rates. After a while, you then start experiencing all kinds of problems, until eventually your gaming PC no longer fires up: the CPU…

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Asus starts an ‘immediate internal review’ on its 800-series motherboards in light of ‘recent reports concerning Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs’

Imagine that you’d just bought a new Ryzen 7 9800X3D, the best gaming CPU around right now. You drop it into your AM5 socket motherboard and start enjoying the freshly boosted frame rates. After a while, you then start experiencing all kinds of problems, until eventually your gaming PC no longer fires up: the CPU…

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