The Gate Must Stand Review – Break Down the Walls

Normally, when writing a review - or almost anything - I would start with a little blurb or story. Maybe it's about the genre, maybe the developer, maybe it's just some random anecdote that the game has made me think of. With The Gate Must Stand, I've got nothing. Possibly something about the Matt Damon film The Great Wall . Why? Because there's a wall in it. That's about it. Anyway, after that random detour to a

A game screen displays a warning with 'BOSS INCOMING' in bold red letters over an animated character labeled Quadruple Demon with action icons, set on a tactical grid background.
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Where Winds Meet Developer Q&A: Hidden Mountain’s Vertical Exploration, Future Roadmap, and Ongoing Netcode and Performance Optimization

The popular free-to-play open world Wuxia action RPG Where Winds Meet , already available on PC, PlayStation 5, Android and iOS, launched on Xbox Series S and X earlier this month , featuring exclusive benefits for Game Pass subscribers. The announcement also included a tease for the game's third major expansion, titled Hidden Mountain and slated for a July launch.

Following the news, we had the opportunity to send a list of questions to developer Everstone Studio via publisher NetEase Games to learn more about the development

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Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan Spills The Beans on Elon Musk’s Problem Solving & Reveals Potentially Major Chip Supply Chain Shortage

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan discussed his experience working with Elon Musk for the Terafab project and the impact that booming demand for artificial intelligence is having on the semiconductor supply chain. Tan made the remarks during the No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups podcast as he praised the trillionaire entrepreneur and commented on the memory shortage.

The discussion started with Elon Musk's Terafab project through which he aims to meet the demand for chips for his cars, robotics and plans for space-based data centers.


AMD Reportedly Plots Another 10-15% RX 9000 Price Hike As The RAMpocalypse Swallows The GPU Market

Once again, we are expecting a price hike for the latest Radeon RX 9000 series GPUs as the DRAM market keeps pushing prices of components upwards.

AMD might be implementing another price hike soon, as reported by Gazlog. It's not the first time, and it certainly doesn't appear to be the last time we see such a price hike. For the last 6 months, we have been witnessing major GPU manufacturers and AIBs adjusting the prices for their GPUs multiple times . Both AMD and NVIDIA

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU Benchmarked In Time Spy, Delivers Better Performance Than RX 7900 GRE 1

Trump Mobile’s PR Firm Just Walked Away From The Embattled T1 Phone, Indicating Just How Precarious The Optics Have Become

There is not really much that can be said when your own PR firm, typically populated with people who are most adept at putting a positive spin on even the most cataclysmic of disasters, won't step up to defend your product, as the Poplar Group appears to have just done, leaving Trump Mobile's beseiged T1 Phone in the lurch.

Trump Mobile had reportedly entered into a PR services contract with the Poplar Group back in June 2025. Now, just around one year later, the


Qualcomm Is Copying Samsung Exynos 2600’s Heat Path Block For Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro, But Has Botched The Implementation

Imitation remains the highest form of flattery. After Samsung won plaudits for the Exynos 2600's novel Heat Path Block (HPB) thermal technology, Qualcomm, whose recent chips iterations have resembled a veritable inferno when it comes to their runaway heat issues, now appears to be flattering Samsung by copying its HPB tech for the upcoming Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro, albeit sloppily so.


Gigabyte X870E AERO X3D DARK Wood Motherboard Review – Supreme Aesthetics!

It's been three years since the AMD AM5 motherboard platform and the 600-series motherboards launched. Since its launch, the platform has seen the launch of several CPUs in the Ryzen 7000, Ryzen 8000, and Ryzen 9000 families. While the 600-series motherboards provide great features & compatibility with newer Zen 5 CPUs, motherboard makers are always looking to enhance user experiences through the latest technologies, so AMD has introduced a new chipset

Gigabyte X670E AERO X3D DARK WOOD motherboard with visible branding and socket for AMD processors.
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MSI’s MAG Infinite Z 8B Pairs RTX 5070 Ti With Silent Storm Cooling AI To Tame Heat In A Tiny Chassis

The MAG Infinite Z aims to support standard hardware without being huge on the table and brings impressive gaming performance for enthusiasts at the same time.

Popular hardware vendor MSI has released its latest gaming desktop called MAG Infinite Z 8B , which brings powerful computing and gaming prowess inside a compact tower. The MAG Infinite Z brings a small form-factor chassis that takes less space on the desk, but delivers big when it comes to gaming and general productivity tasks.

According to MSI, the MAG Infinite Z combines high-performance

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Game Pass Could’ve Worked, Moon Studios Boss Says, But Xbox Never Delivered the Big Hits It Needed

The ongoing issues at Xbox , with several studios at risk of being shut down (chiefly Ninja Theory , Compulsion Games , and Double Fine Productions ) and more layoffs sadly rumored to be on the way , have inevitably become a topic of discussion among industry members, even publicly.

Replying to Duke Nukem creator George Broussard , who had wondered "where did Game Pass come from?", Moon Studios CEO Thomas Mahler (Ori, No Rest for the Wicked ) tweeted his theory that Game Pass is " a little like Communism

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Intel’s Core 3 304 Ties Apple’s A18 Pro In Single-Thread PassMark, Despite Running One Fewer Core

The Wildcat Lake chips are proving themselves to be worthy for ultra low-power and lightweight laptops.

Apple MacBook Neo might be one of the most special releases from the company, powered by an entry-level chip that does everyday productivity tasks efficiently. The CPU bridges the gap between iPhone-tier mobile silicon and traditional Mac laptops, offering an affordable and "fanless" computing experience.

Intel Wildcat Lake, on the other hand, brings a similar objective, offering powerful 5 and 6-core entry-level chips that

A chart titled 'Benchmark Scores' shows a CPU Mark rating of 12,673 and a Passmark Rating of 2,529 with corresponding performance metrics such as 26,422 MOps/Sec for Integer Math and 33,358 MOps/Sec for Floating Point Math.
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