Korean developer Pearl Abyss has vowed to improve Crimson Desert’s storytelling earlier this month, but it's not clear when these changes will hit PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S, or what they will exactly entail. In a recent interview with IGN at Summer Game Fest , the studio's director of marketing and PR, Will Powers, revealed not only that these changes will be additive and will not detract from early adopters , but also that side characters Damiane and Oongka may receive some much
AMD Confirms Different FSR 4.1 Model For RDNA 3 GPUs; Delayed Support On RDNA 2 Is Due To Significant Optimization Needs
AMD explains why it needs time to add support for FSR 4.1 on RDNA 2, aka Radeon RX 6000 GPUs, and what are the current challenges it is facing.
There are reasons behind delayed support for FSR 4.0/4.1 on the older Radeon cards, which is why AMD took its time to bring the new upscaling technology on previous-gen cards. AMD has faced a lot of criticism for not bringing FSR 4.0/4.1 on RDNA 3 and RDNA
Xbox Layoffs Just the Beginning of a Publisher-Wide Catastrophe; Arkane, Bethesda, id, BioWare, and PlayStation Studios Are Also at Risk
We had been waiting for the Xbox layoffs news since last week, and a few hours ago, several trustworthy sources started reporting that Compulsion Games , Double Fine Productions , and Ninja Theory are all at risk of being shut down , though they are currently trying to negotiate alternative solutions (like being sold or going independent).
However, according to French journalist Sylvain Trinel from BFM TV, this may well be the beginning of a publisher-wide catastrophe . He namedropped a lot of studios that might soon be affected by either
Treyarch Studio Head is Leaving After a Decade at the Helm and Two Decades Making Call of Duty Games
The head of Call of Duty makers Treyarch Studios is leaving his role after 22 years with Treyarch, ten of which he spent at the studio's helm. Now-former studio head Mark Gordon has announced he is leaving the studio, and entering his next chapter, though there's no indication yet as to what that is. He'll be replaced by Kevin Hendrickson and Yale Miller as co-studio heads, as the leadership shakeup across Xbox studios continues.
The news was revealed amidst a flurry of
Compulsion, Double-Fine, Ninja Theory, and “Several Other Studios” at Xbox Reportedly Negotiating Buyouts to Avoid Being Shuttered
The scale of the reported Xbox layoffs is seemingly, somehow, worse than anyone might've feared. While we've been hearing reports and rumours all day of Compulsion Games and Arkane Lyon at risk , now, a new report from Bloomberg points to other studios like Double-Fine and Ninja Theory as two others also trying to negotiate with Xbox, to find a path forward that doesn't involve the studio getting shut down .
The report claims that both Double-Fine and Compulsion are " in active negotiations to
AMD Olympic Ridge “Zen 6” Ryzen CPUs Get Integrated NPU At The Cost of iGPU, CUDIMM Ready Platform
AMD's next-gen Ryzen Desktop CPUs, codenamed Olympic Ridge, based on Zen 6 core architecture, will get an integrated NPU but remove the iGPU.
The next-generation AMD Ryzen Desktop CPU lineup is planned for 2027 and will feature some major upgrades. Some of these upgrades include the latest Zen 6 core architecture and the utilization of the TSMC 2nm "N2P" process technology. We expected to see major uplifts in IPC, Efficiency, and Overall Performance.
Xbox Layoffs Will be “Significant” and a “Bloodbath,” it’s Claimed, More Signs Point to Compulsion Games Shuttering
Ever since Bloomberg's report that there would be layoffs at Xbox at the end of the month, the entire video game industry has been on high alert. Waiting in horror to see how bad the layoffs would be this time, with initial claims pointing to them being potentially as bad as when Microsoft laid off 1,900 employees at Xbox and shuttered Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin in 2024 . Or perhaps even as bad as the layoffs last year, which cut 9,000 employees
Xbox Seemingly Planning to Reveal a “Buy Now, Pay Later” Payment Program for its Products with PayPal and Klarna
A dataminer has seemingly found an element of the " radically different business models " Xbox chief executive officer Asha Sharma was discussing in her path to find a way for players to afford the next generation of Xbox consoles, like Project Helix . Spotted by Insider-Gaming , a dataminer on X (formerly Twitter) has found details for a " buy now, pay later " program in the backend of Xbox's website.
User redphx found mention of the payment program along with mention of payment processors like PayPal and Klarna .
Aletheia Warns HBM Prices Will Double in 2027 as Memory Becomes AI’s Most Critical Component
Memory manufacturer Micron could benefit from high DRAM and HBM prices in 2026 and 2027, believes financial firm Aletheia Capital. Micron, like SK hynix and Samsung, has benefited from the strong demand for AI chips in the current buildout as memory production constraints have pushed prices up. The financial firm believes that the value of memory chips in the AI ecosystem will become the most important in the near future and push the prices of NVIDIA's Vera CPU rack to astronomical levels as well.
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Tensordyne’s 3nm Napier AI Chip Promises 13x Higher Token Throughput Than Blackwell & Blazes Past Rubin With 1000 Tokens/s In Multi-Trillion Parameter Models
US-based AI company, Tensordyne, has announced the successful tape-out of its Napier chip , which it claims to demolish NVIDIA's Blackwell & Rubin chips with leading token throughput and efficiency.
The Napier chip will be the core component of the Tensordyne Napier TDN system, which is designed in collaboration with Broadcom and HPE Juniper Networks. The Napier platform has one goal: to unify AI through novel logarithmic AI math, a tightly integrated memory architecture, and a high-performance scale-up interconnect that drives higher
