Thermalright Launches Royal Pretor 130 Vision CPU Cooler

Thermalright today launched the Royal Pretor 130 Vision, a high-end CPU air cooler. The cooler features a large, dual fin-stack (D-type) heatsink with a pair of fans in push-pull configuration, and is characterized by a top-plate that features a 3.95-inch true-color display. The cooler's construction involves a nickel-plated copper base, from which six copper heatpipes pass through, conveying heat to the cooler's two fin stacks.
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(PR) Noctua and Pulsar Gaming Gears Partner to Launch the Feinmann F01 Noctua Edition

Pulsar Gaming Gears (AplusX Inc.), a leading developer of high-performance esports peripherals, is thrilled to announce the official global launch of its highly anticipated product: the Feinmann F01 Noctua Edition. This strategic collaboration brings together Pulsar Gaming Gear's cutting-edge shape architecture and Noctua's exclusive thermal engineering and iconic aesthetic, delivering an uncompromising tool designed for both luxurious and hardware enthusiasts who demand tactile perfection and precision.

The Feinmann series is dedicated exclusively to creating input devices for the most demanding users
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DRAM Shortage Will Last Another 10 Years, Warns ADATA Chairman

DRAM is currently one of the few "commodities" in the computing world that is so supply-constrained it might take another 10 years for the supply chain to stabilize. According to ADATA Chairman Chen Li-bai, the AI bubble is far from bursting, as the demand for DRAM is outpacing supply so significantly that even with new manufacturing capacity expansions from memory makers worldwide, DRAM will remain in dire shortage for another decade. Chen Li-bai's statement was prompted by a recent decline in TSMC's

Wallhack Teases Gaming Mouse With Swappable Battery and a Mystery Gaming Keyboard

Wallhack, one of the niche gaming peripherals companies that helped push glass mousepads into the mainstream—as much as they are in the mainstream, as it were—has apparently been working on a new product category: gaming peripherals. Wallhack's social media pages have recently been chock-full of teasers for an upcoming product, with confirmation coming on July 17 that the company has been working on a wireless gaming mouse. There has also been a teaserfor an upcoming 65% keyboard with a knob, but
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Former Left 4 Dead Writer Pans PlayStation Backlash Over Physical Media

Unsurprisingly, there has been more than a little backlashfollowing Sony's recent decision to end the production of physical games media in 2028. Much of that backlash has been met with questions from skeptics about the real-world success of physical media compared to digital, and even game preservation experts have highlighted that the death of physical media hardly changes the landscape, given the dependence on day-one patches.

Now, former Valve employee, and writer for Left 4 Dead, Chet Faliszek, has added his

Ex-Valve Writer Says Consumers Pushed PlayStation To Kill the Disc

Unsurprisingly, there has been more than a little backlashfollowing Sony's recent decision to end the production of physical games media in 2028. Much of that backlash has been met with questions from skeptics about the real-world success of physical media compared to digital, and even game preservation experts have highlighted that the death of physical media hardly changes the landscape, given the dependence on day-one patches.

Now, former Valve employee, and writer for Left 4 Dead, Chet Faliszek, has added his

Edge of Eternity Studio Shut Down Ahead of Sequel Launch

Amid mass layoffs at Xbox and studio closures elsewhere, more bad news emerges from the ailing gaming industry, as Midgar, the Nacon-owned studio behind Edge of Eternity, a turn-based JRPG adventure game, has officially announced that it would be shutting down. Earlier this year, Nacon also shut down Spiders, the studio behind GreedFall, for similar reasons. Similarly, Nacon also went on to publish a GreedFall DLC after the studio shut down.

The closure comes as a result of a court-ordered liquidation,

Intel Arc B390 iGPU Gets Sizeable Performance Boost in Linux 7.2 Benchmarks

Intel iGPUs have something of a reputation for being slow to catch up to their Windows performance when running on Linux, and the same was true for the new Arc B390 iGPUthat is all the rage with next-gen gaming handhelds, it seems. At least, according to recent Phoronix benchmarks, this seems to be changing with Linux 7.2.

For the most part, CPU performance remained unchanged throughout the benchmarks, but testing in native Linux gaming benchmarks shows improvements of up to 12% in

Valve Doubles Down on Steam Machine Pricing Pessimism

Since the launch of the Steam Machine, which has been blasted online for its high pricing and middling performance, Valve has been fairly transparent about pricing woes relating to the hybrid console, with engineers previously going so far as to saythat pricing before the AI-fuelled RAMpocalypse was as much as 30% cheaperthan launch pricing, and that the light at the end of the tunnel is faint.

More recently, in a new interview with Bloomberg, Valve engineers Pierre-Loup Griffais and Yazan Aldehayyat, have once again

OneXPlayer Opens X2 Mini Pro Pre-Orders: AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 388 Handheld for $2,499

OneXPlayer announced the Ryzen AI Max+ 388-powered X2 Mini Pro in April 2026shortly before the device launched on Indiegogo. Now, following the Indiegogo launch, the X2 Mini Pro has officially launched as an in-stock product on the OneXPlayer store. Some of the starting prices are currently discounted to celebrate the official launch, but it's unclear how long those discounts will last or if they will be temporary at all, since a lot of OneXPlayer products seem to effectively be
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