The recent slew of live-service games biting the dust— The Crew, Bungie's Destiny, and Highguardbeing the most prominent of the lot—has raised questions about the longevity of the games we play and what happens to them after the publisher is no longer around or no longer wants to maintain game servers to support online play. Running counter to the arguments often heard from major game publishers, Pocketpair has effectively built in a post-support plan into the game's core design.

In response to a

A long-time TechPowerUp forum user who goes by Fouquin just posted a surprisingly in-depth review of the upcoming Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra, featuring the NVIDIA RTX Spark Arm-based SoC. In a bizarre stroke of luck, the user says that he found the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra on the side of the road and decided to pick it up "assuming it was trash."

While the review is not an official TechPowerUp review, so it cannot be directly compared to our existing benchmarks for other laptops and CPUs,

After the launch of Marathon's new Vault Breakers PvE mode, which Bungie was seemingly implementing as a way to improve player retention, the game saw a sizeable improvement in concurrent player counts, peaking at 14,771 concurrent players on Steam ( via SteamDB). Since Vault Breakers launched, however, the numbers have started trending down again.

The Steam player tracker shows that, immediately after the Vault Breaker update launched, Marathon's player count peaked at 14,809 concurrent players—

NVIDIA is in talks to provide roughly $250 billion in financing guarantees for OpenAI's planned data center campus in southern Ohio, according to the Wall Street Journal, cited by Reuters. The project is being developed by SB Energy, a SoftBanksubsidiary and is a 10-gigawatt facility sited on a decommissioned uranium-enrichment site about 50 miles south of Columbus, Ohio. The total cost, including chips, could exceed $500 billion making it the largest data center project announced to date

TSMC has reportedly reached a new milestone in scaling its 2 nm node high-volume manufacturing, now producing 20,000 wafers per month on the N2 node alone. Manufactured across five fabs in Taiwan, the company currently has only one fab in volume production on the N2 node. This is reportedly Fab 20, which has reached this figure. TSMC began high-volume production of its N2 node in the fourth quarter of 2025. Fast-forward two quarters to today

Following a similar story relating to PlayStation Account server errors just a few days prior, on the launch of the Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls beta, Xbox has seemingly run into issues during the advanced access launch of Halo: Campaign Evolved. The resulting Xbox outage has resulted in gamers being unable to access core online features, such as account login, game downloads, the Xbox Store and subscriptions, and launching apps on console and mobile. Reportedly, the newly added Xbox Backwards Compatibility featurehas also experienced issues during the

Ubisoft recently tipped that there were two Far Cry games in the works. Although the game studio hadn't revealed what those two Far Cry projects were, they were believed to be Far Cry 7 and a new extraction shooter internally referred to as Maverick. According to a new report by Insider Gaming, Maverick has officially been scrapped, with a new game popping up in its wake.

Supposedly, the new game, codenamed Kodiak, has passed the conceptualization phase and entered production. It will be built on the same bones

Valve's hardware portfolio has experienced significant pricing fluctuations due to various supply chain changes related to memory, storage, and now processor price hikes. According to Bloomberg, Qualcomm, the main chip supplier for the upcoming Steam Frame VR headset, is increasing its prices by double-digit percentages. This means that Valve's upcoming Steam Frame headset will face an unexpected price increase. Initially, Valve planned to use the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor with 16 GB of unified LPDDR5X RAM and up to 1 TB

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC), the low power programmable leader, today announced the completion of its acquisition of AMI. First announced on May 4, 2026, the acquisition creates the industry's most complete secure management and control platform. The acquisition is expected to be accretive to gross margin, free cash flow, and earnings per share on a non-GAAP basis, and supports Lattice's trajectory toward a $1 billion or greater annual revenue run rate by end of 202