Micron says it’s not to blame for its high memory prices: ‘There’s just not enough supply to go around’

Another day, another reminder that we’re in the midst of a memory crisis, this time from Micron. This time, though, the company is responding directly to the idea that memory manufacturers like itself are to blame for rising consumer memory prices. Tech publication Wccftech asked Micron’s VP of Marketing, Mobile and Client Business Unit, Christopher…

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Arc Raiders is finally dishing out bans for cheaters, but some players think the punishment is too lenient: ‘Anyone with cheats active just gets non-stop arc spawning on them’

The day of reckoning has arrived. Those who have been cheating in Arc Raiders (or at least some of them) have been handed down their sentence: a 30-day ban. Embark promised last week that it would begin dealing with cheaters, and now the “significant changes” to the detection and ban systems have arrived. “Dear cheaters,…

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After a tumultuous 7 years, Hytale has ‘officially secured the next two years of development costs’ a day before launch: ‘Thank you all for the support. Hytale is saved. We are almost home’

To say Hytale has had a tumultuous development cycle would be an understatement. Development began in 2015 with funding from Riot Games, which would go on to acquire the Hypixel team entirely in 2020, only to pull the plug on it five years later. It wasn’t until November 2025 that it was revived by its…

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Larian’s learnt a lot from Baldur’s Gate 3 going into Divinity, including the fact that hand-crafted loot is probably better: ‘Randomization did not save us much time’

Larian’s next game, Divinity, is gonna have some big changes to the usual Original Sin formula—and it’s thanks to Baldur’s Gate 3, so sayeth a Larian lead in a recent Reddit AMA. Nick Pechenin, head of design at the studio, said that its take on the Dungeons & Dragons ruleset informed a lot of how…

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Steam defies RAM-ageddon and the AI-pocalypse to smash through a new concurrent user record, and I’ll see you back here in like 4 months when it somehow does it again

Chalk up a win for small business! The Seattle offices of Valve Corporation—a plucky upstart company co-founded by Washington businessman Gabe “Gaben” Newell—must have been abuzz recently, when its videogame storefront Steam pipped a steamy milestone in its concurrent user metrics. Sorry, I’ve written so many articles about Steam’s concurrent user records that I decided…

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Nvidia CEO Jensun Huang critiques ‘well respected people who have painted a doomer narrative’ around AI right after saying ‘I guess someday we will have God AI’

You know Nvidia, the AI gaming hardware company that managed to hit a $5 trillion evaluation last year. The AI boom has led to ever-increasing investment into the company, and so it’s really in Nvidia’s interest for the world to be all in on the potential benefits of AI. Huang reflects on the AI naysayers…

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