Former Call of Duty frontman launches new studio with a ‘Stop Killing Games’-style mission statement: If the game bombs, it goes open source

Former Call of Duty strategist Robert Bowlling, whose ill-fated venture with Midnight Society came to an end in 2025, is taking another shot at the game business. In a message posted to LinkedIn, Bowling said he’s co-founded a new studio with “a killer team,” and while nothing was said about what it’s currently working on,…

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World of Warcraft’s on the quality-of-life boost warpath, with fixes including an auto-loot setting that’s been mildly inconveniencing alt-lovers for years

World of Warcraft‘s ramping up to its first major “big number” patch, Curse of Ula’tek—in addition to some interesting changes to how world bosses work, Blizzard’s also taking aim at some quality-of-life features. And while these updates haven’t all exactly been frictionless, I’ve gotta tip my hat to Blizzard, here—a lot of these are major…

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‘Meta will need to reduce or possibly stop AI investment in datacenters, as it already has excess capacity’: The AI infrastructure bubble feels the heat

As a PC gamer, you’ll be all too familiar with the sky-high prices of memory and storage components. To put it most simply, these frankly eye-watering price tags are largely due to big tech’s major players buying up as much DRAM and flash chips as possible in order to fuel their AI ambitions. Well, that…

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Intel’s mega-core Nova Lake desktop processors look all but confirmed to have sustained full boost power limits at least 220 W higher than Arrow Lake

Earlier this year, there was a rumour that Intel’s next generation of desktop processors could consume up to 700 W of power. That was just for the so-called ‘dual compute tile’ models, with as many as 52 cores, but that claim now carries additional weight; one sharp-eyed leaker has noticed something about Nova Lake motherboards…

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Sony’s PlayStation 6 is now estimated to cost over $900 in materials alone, signalling a launch price tag double that of the PS5

With the memory crisis continuing to suck up supplies of memory and push up the cost of computing and gaming devices, a big question mark has lingered over the prices for the next consoles from Microsoft and Sony. And early reports suggest things won’t be looking pretty for their launch. As spotted by TechPowerUp, well-known…

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Hideo Kojima’s upcoming horror game OD is said to survive Microsoft’s culling for the second time now

Microsoft is going through another big ‘reset’, which is a nice way of saying culling, as it reportedly prepares to cut major games and studios as part of reassessing its videogame investments. But amid all the carnage, Hideo Kojima’s OD is apparently unscathed. According to IGN, a source familiar with Microsoft’s plans implied the upcoming…

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WoW’s bug-filled April patch was actually from trying to fix too much too fast, says director Ion Hazzikostas—like an elevator from 13 years ago that blew up housing

World of Warcraft caught some heat earlier this year for a messy patch that broke a whole lot of stuff. Patch 12.0.5 was a bit of a disaster, taking an accidental wrecking ball to multiple systems and allowing some long-flagged issues to sneak their way into the game. The takeaway that I—and many other players—had…

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