On the 25th anniversary of its foundation, Xbox finds itself in a desperate fight for survival while its parent company, Microsoft , weighs all scenarios, including a sale.
The arrival of new CEO Asha Sharma heralded many big changes in just her first 100 days on the job, and this week, she signaled that a wholesale " reset " of the Xbox division is in order to offset its measly 3% margins, including layoffs reportedly underway later this month. However, a new report from The Information
Surprise surprise, another report points to trouble at Ubisoft , the company that started 2026 with a " major reset , " which continues to include the laying off of hundreds of developers as the entire company gets reorganized into a new structure and Tencent enters the picture with Vantage Studios . Following more layoffs reported just days ago, a new report from Insider-Gaming points to trouble with its upcoming Ghost Recon project, which it claims is struggling deeply in its development.
The report cites an internal memo shared with Insider
Semiconductor design giant Qualcomm is tipped to deepen its partnership with Amazon's Amazon Web Services (AWS) business for its AI chips, suggests a report from banking giant Wells Fargo. The pairing will play into AWS's strategy of improving operating margins with the AI chips that it uses and lower the overall inference costs that are driven by AI accelerator costs, suggests the bank. Wells Fargo's report comes as some rumors have suggested that Qualcomm might launch its AI CPUs to target the growing demand of agentic computing,
Nintendo has instituted temporary restrictions on buying a Nintendo Switch 2 in Japan, though the restrictions don't apply to every Switch 2 sold in the company's home base. Users looking for the multilingual Switch 2 in Japan will have a tougher time finding one, as Nintendo adds new restrictions and suspends the sale of multi-language consoles, under suspicion that customers are hoarding them for scalping and reselling purposes.
You may recall that there are two kinds of Switch 2's you can buy if you're shopping
Unsightly green lines marring your otherwise pristine OLED or AMOLED screens has become a veritable bane in the Android sphere over the past few years. Now, Google's Pixel 9 smartphones are reportedly developing this issue after a recent update, and Google seems to have no idea what's triggering these defects.
A Redditor, who goes by the username u/Gold_Blacksmith_7678, has just described a troubling incident , where his Pixel 9 on Android 16 developed the dreaded green display lines after the
The U.S. ban hammer pushed Huawei into a corner, and with no way to run Android on its devices, the company that was once poised to become the largest smartphone manufacturer in the world was now limited to its home turf in China.
Not wanting to accept its fate, Huawei introduced HarmonyOS, its microkernel-based platform capable of running on different classes of products, and during the company’s keynote, an executive mentioned that the operating system can be optimized to run on measly 64KB of
STALKER 2: Cost of Hope is the upcoming DLC expansion for GSC Game World's powerhouse of tense first-person shooter survival gameplay that is STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl . It'll arrive at some point this coming summer, and ahead of that launch, GSC Game World just debuted a new story trailer, setting the stage for another journey into the Zone.
This new expansion puts players in the middle of the conflict between two factions, while joining Zulu and Mavka as they endure the Zone to try to
Finally, the most popular AMD GPUs are visible in the Steam database after their launch nearly one year ago.
From the time of the launch of RDNA 4 GPUs, most RX 9000 series GPUs never made it to the Steam Hardware Survey . Despite seeing some of the RDNA 4 GPUs dominate the charts on major retailers, they remained absent from the Steam database, while the GeForce RTX 50 series continued to climb up with its offerings. Mid-range GPUs such as the RTX 5070 and
The customer will now receive a replacement for his damaged Ryzen 9 7950X3D, though it took intervention from a YouTuber for AMD to reverse course.
Recently, a user reported that he had his Ryzen 9 7950X3D unexpectedly damaged despite having no manual overclocking done to the chip. After inspection, it appeared that the substrate of the Ryzen 9 7950X3D was swollen, so the customer sent it for RMA to AMD. While GIGABYTE cleared his motherboard
The recently released Gothic 1 Remake from developer Alkimia Interactive and publisher THQ Nordic has officially reached 500,000 copies sold in just its first week on digital store shelves, the studio announced. It's a significant milestone not just because of its scale, but because it's done so during one of the nosiest months in the video game industry, Summer Game Fest 2026 .
This remake has been a long time coming, and the original Gothic was such an influential release when it