Fresh evidence from independent researchers confirms the first drop in PC shipments in over a year… and it’s only going to get worse

New research from Counterpoint corroborates that the PC market has finally been impacted by the memory crisis to the extent that global shipments have gone down for the first time since the first quarter of 2025. In the second quarter this year there were 4% fewer global PC shipments than the same time last year….

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Star Wars Zero Company won’t have official mod support, confirms Bit Reactor, but it has ‘a lot of respect for the modding community’

Star Wars Zero Company developer Bit Reactor is made up of former XCOM veterans, a series which has a pretty lively modding scene, especially XCOM 2, which supports modding with official development tools. It’s even had its fair share of Star Wars mods over the years that completely transport it to a galaxy far, far…

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‘Far beyond anything we had predicted’: Framework says its supplier’s memory prices are ‘more than double’ its previous shipment

Over the last few months, Framework has been doing a pretty good job of keeping RAM prices for its modular laptops/mainboards/desktops from climbing too high as a result of the global memory shortage, though storage hasn’t fared quite so well. And now, RAM unfortunately isn’t faring so well, either. The company explains in its monthly…

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The new Warhammer Blood Bowl published by Slitherine will be out in fall, and I’m looking forward to it because I enjoy pain I guess

At this point being into the digital versions of Blood Bowl is basically masochism. In the 1990s MicroLeague published a version that was so cheap and nasty I said, “to call it barebones would be an insult to skeletons.” Cyanide picked up the licence after that, releasing two decent adaptations whose DLC model was controversial…

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I regret to report that the AIs are weebs, too

As we descend ever further into an AI-fueled dystopia, one question about our future becomes ever more pressing: When the internet is dominated by machines, who’s going to be around to continue its long-standing tradition of fetishizing Japanese culture and media? Well, there’s no reason to worry, because it turns out the AIs are weebs,…

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