RAM prices be damned, SK hynix’s record-breaking $55.6 billion quarter still failed to meet investors’ wild AI expectations

SK hynix, one of the ‘big three’ memory manufacturers, just shared its 2026 second quarter financial results, and its record-breaking revenue of 79.3 trillion won (roughly $55.6 billion) isn’t all good news. Despite continuing strong demand for memory from the AI industry, SK hynix has found itself missing investor expectations. Poor lamb. SK hynix was…

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Keychron’s gaming mouse firmware is going open-source, while the company critiques ‘firmware you can’t read, can’t audit, can’t change’

Keychron, the gaming peripheral creator, has developed a name for itself as a defender of open-source software over the last few years. It has an entire ‘Open Source Design Project‘, where it posts access to files to customise its keyboards, and it even uses ZMK and QMK, which are open-source software for keyboards. Open-source mouse…

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FF14’s new zone has a creepy backrooms void tucked just underneath it, filled with horrible milky ruins and what I deem to be far too many arms

Final Fantasy 14′s latest patch has dropped, and it’s introduced the North Horn—the next and final step in this expansion’s “exploration zone”, which has been a much-needed boon to the feeling of jolly cooperation I’m trying to get out of an MMO. This expansion is an entirely new map, filled with new Phantom Jobs to…

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Cooler Master V8 Ace 3DHP review

It’s not often we see serious innovation in air cooling; many merely spin on tried and tested formulae. That’s not the case here, however, as the Cooler Master V8 Ace 3DHP is offering something new to PC builders: 3DHP technology. I first glimpsed the 3DHP (3D Heat Pipe) tech in a backroom of Cooler Master’s…

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Marvel Tōkon devs vow to fix performance issues for launch day next week: ‘To our PC players, message received’

Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls held a beta the past weekend, finally giving PC players a chance to play Sony’s superhero tag fighter before launch (and a second opportunity for those on PS5). It was short but sweet, reaching an all-time peak of 33,233 concurrent players on Steam alone—just beating out Street Fighter 6’s beta player…

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Soulslike game Wuchang is officially getting a sequel developed by its creator’s new studio after the original team reportedly disbanded

While we weren’t too hot on the 2025 soulslike Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, it was a hit for Chinese developer Leenzee and publisher 505 Games, reaching five million players across all platforms. However, a report from the Chinese publication Gamersky earlier this year claimed that the game’s director and producer, Xia Siyuan, had been fired from…

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Final Fantasy 7 Revelation boss has been thinking about ways to make a mysterious boss suitable for the upcoming crossover raid with Final Fantasy 14

I’m surprised it’s taken 13 years to happen, but Final Fantasy 14 is finally bringing Final Fantasy 7 to the MMO in a big way. Upcoming expansion Evercold is getting an entire raid series dedicated to the remake trilogy—that’s 12 whole fights spread across three tiers which will trickle in over the course of Evercold’s…

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Yoshi-P is looking into ways to make FF14’s 5 expansions and hundreds of hours less daunting for new players

Final Fantasy 14 may be an MMO, but it’s certainly never sacrificed the series’ talent for excellent storytelling. It’s stuffed with incredible worldbuilding, a cherished cast of characters, and heart-wrenching story beats that’ll get players shedding a tear from just hearing a few notes from a song that played during a cutscene. It is, however,…

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