‘Price increases are unavoidable’ says Tim Cook, proving even Apple isn’t impervious to the global memory shortage

Courtesy of the RAMpocalypse, companies are raising prices for their memory-loaded products left, right, and centre. Apple products, however, had previously remained mostly (though not completely) untouched. No longer, though, as the company CEO Tim Cook tells the Wall Street Journal. “Unfortunately, price increases are unavoidable. We’re doing our best to mitigate the huge increases…

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Dave the Diver: In the Jungle review

Need to Know What is it? DLC for Dave the Diver where you open a new restaurant.Expect to pay: $10/£8.49Developer: MintrocketPublisher: MintrocketReviewed on: Intel i7 9700K, RTX 4070 Ti, 16GB RAMMultiplayer: NoSteam Deck: VerifiedVR: No Oh, there’s some new DLC for Dave the Diver where you do more spearfishing and restaurant management, but this time…

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Xbox’s latest tactics display ‘a basic misunderstanding of how the interactive entertainment world moves’, says former PlayStation exec

Xbox is flailing again. Major studio closures loom, the AI boom continues to erode the affordability of console hardware components, no one seems to want those consoles anyway and, according to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella—a fierce advocate of the AI industry crippling the rest of consumer tech—the corp isn’t making enough money from its first-party…

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PlayerUnknown’s survival game becomes free-to-own and offers Steam refunds ‘without restrictions on playtime or how long ago you bought the game’

Normally a game leaving early access would be cause for celebration, but I daresay that’s not the case for Prologue: Go Wayback! It left early access on Steam today, but it’s also doing so in an unfinished state with no plans for further development. The open world survival game from PlayerUnknown Productions launched into early…

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Hours after announcing a collab with Fortnite, Vampire Survivors dev suggests it may back out over Epic’s touting of generative AI

Epic announced several upcoming Fortnite collabs earlier today, including one with Vampire Survivors. But a few hours after the presentation, developer Poncle left a Reddit comment suggesting that it might not happen after all. While the post is brief, Poncle seems to be reacting to a recent video which demonstrates how Epic artists use generative…

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