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In case we needed a visceral reminder just how screwed memory prices are thanks to AI, Samsung and SK hynix are apparently raising prices by up to 30%

I don’t own a crystal ball, but if I did, I’m sure it would be telling me all about memory prices continuing to climb. No doubt those will be the words tumbling along the semiconductor industry winds for some time. The latest on this front, in case we needed any more evidence, is that according…

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As FBC: Firebreak fails to recover from its disastrous launch and profit warnings are issued to shareholders, the CEO of Remedy Entertainment is stepping down

It’s been a strange few years for Remedy Entertainment. On the one hand, it’s more independent and successful than ever before. With less reliance on publisher investment, it’s been able to develop and expand its studio-owned properties into a connected universe, and move towards self-publishing. And it’s produced some of its most critically acclaimed games…

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Critical Role’s Whitney Moore says she’s ‘made the mistake of thinking that I could out-troll’ prank extraordinaire Sam Riegel at the table

Critical Role Campaign 4 is off to a terrific start—even if it is a borderline magic trick to see DM Brennan Lee Mulligan handle thirteen players at once for its first four episodes (they’re not all at the table at once, mind, but it’s still a terrific feat). I’ve been equally impressed by the new…

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My Steam account is now forever tainted with an achievement I got for accidentally upskirting a katana-wielding machine girl

Even after a couple of hours with Full Metal Schoolgirl, I’m not entirely sure what it wants to be: a shooter, a roguelite, a campy yet lewd robo-corpo hack-and-slash? It’s a little bit of everything, and doesn’t particularly excel in any aspect. Yet I’m weirdly endeared to its bizarre late 2000s jankiness. It reeks of…

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OK, the Xe3 GPU in Intel’s Panther Lake chip officially isn’t Celestial, it’s really just Xe2 ‘Plus Plus,’ but even Intel itself doesn’t yet understand how it all relates to its shock new deal with Nvidia

The utterly baffling status of Intel’s Arc graphics technology just got a bit clearer. Oh, and a whole lot more confusing, too. In a nutshell, the Xe3 iGPU in the new Panther Lake chip definitely isn’t based on Celestial, Intel’s supposed next-gen graphics architecture. Instead it’s a tweak of Xe2, as seen in the Intel…

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