The three big players in computer memory are all building new factories but it probably won’t help DRAM prices until 2028, if then

The three biggest players in computer memory are all tooling up major new factories, but the main impact of that won’t come until 2028 and even then it may not be enough to normalise spiralling memory prices. This analysis comes from IEEE Spectrum, which has published an overview of the current memory market and insights…

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The rumour that Intel’s next-gen Nova Lake chips will consume up to 700 W of power is nothing to worry about—Core Ultra 400 gaming PCs aren’t going to be melting your house down

Intel’s past few series of desktop processors have somewhat of a bad reputation for being power-hungry beasts. Its current range of Arrow Lake chips has reversed this trend, fortunately, but with one top leaker claiming that the next generation, Nova Lake, will hit the 700 W mark, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Intel has…

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Yakuza Kiwami 3 is where ‘The Kiwami line will come to an end,’ which might be for the best given how badly it’s been handled

Yakuza Kiwami 3 and its tie-in game, Dark Ties, release tomorrow, and that might be your lot, at least insofar as Kiwami games go. In a recent Japanese-language livestream spotted and translated by fans on Reddit (and verified by PCG’s crack international cadre), RGG studio boss Masayoshi Yokoyama declared that “I think Yakuza Kiwami 3…

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