Resident Evil Requiem has broken the internet as fans find out Leon Kennedy is married: ‘You’ll play Chris in the DLC and see an identical ring on his hand’

It’s an awful day to be Leon Kennedy’s number one fan, as players have discovered that he’s married. You can see what looks to be a wedding ring on his finger in a couple of Resident Evil Requiem’s cutscenes, and can take a good look at it in the concept art if you’re an eagle-eyed…

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It looks like more memory price hikes may soon be on the way, as Samsung and SK Hynix reportedly inform customers of yet another DRAM price increase

If you were looking for good news surrounding the ongoing memory crisis, you’ve clicked on the wrong article. According to South Korean news outlet SEDaily, its sources have informed it that both Samsung and SK Hynix have notified their customers of another second-quarter DRAM price increase, and are currently entering into price negotiations. Smaller customers…

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UK games collector raided by police after purchasing £10,000 worth of hardware, including old dev kits, disposed of by Sega

Preserving videogame history is no easy feat. Besides the ephemeral nature of digital downloads these days, a significant obstacle over the decades has been the interests of corporate entities as they seek to protect their intellectual property. For example, a London-based collector was raided by the police last year after he purchased dev kits reportedly…

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Microsoft banned the word ‘Microslop’ in its Copilot Discord server, then began restricting access after users started posting ‘Microsl0p’ and other funnies

I’m sure I’m not the first person to tell you that “Microslop” is rapidly becoming internet vernacular for Microsoft’s Copilot-based, AI efforts. Some would say that the appropriate MS response to this term would be to simply ignore it. However, according to Windows Latest, Microsoft has instead been fighting what looks suspiciously like a losing…

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Battlefield 6 explains how its Javelin anticheat system works—and it kind of boils down to ‘just trust me bro’

Battlefield Studios updates players on the success of Battlefield 6’s anticheat EA Javelin every so often, with its last report revealing that over 580,000 attempts at cheating were stopped. But some players have queried how the devs would know what percentage of cheaters have been foiled when the most successful perpetrators can’t be found. It’s…

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Heroic madlad is working multiplayer into Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and the brass ring of the whole thing is functional 2-player Farkle

Online multiplayer wasn’t invented in real life until the Peace of Westphalia, but why should that stop determined modders? Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2—2025’s Game of the Year, don’cha know—is looking a whole lot more populous than usual, thanks to some madlad mod-makers who have combined forces to bring a multiplayer mode to 15th-century Bohemia (spotted…

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World of Warcraft: Midnight’s ‘stay a while and listen’ monologues might’ve just heavily hinted at a future big bad

I’m still plugging through World of Warcraft: Midnight‘s story campaign, and I can say for a fact that Blizzard’s continued to improve its storytelling—in particular, I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the “stay a while and listen” conversations. Optional snippets which I’d absolutely encourage you to absorb whenever they come up. Carving my way through the…

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Top analyst firm Gartner predicts the ‘sub-$500 entry-level PC segment will disappear by 2028’, along with worldwide PC shipment decline of 10.4% in 2026

It wasn’t too long ago you could pick up a sub-$500 gaming PC or gaming laptop in the yearly sales. Sure, it’d almost certainly be reliant on an iGPU or older tech, and it wouldn’t be the most powerful machine in the world. But thanks to the ongoing memory crisis (and various other supply chain…

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