Ubisoft’s Sixth Layoff Round of 2026 Claims Winnipeg and Belgrade as 380 More Workers Face the Axe

French website Les Echos has revealed that Ubisoft is enacting another round of layoffs and studio closures. The offices to be closed down are those of Winnipeg , Canada, and Belgrade , Serbia.

Founded in 2018 and officially opened in January 2019, Ubisoft Winnipeg was established as a co-development and technology studio, with its core mission being to develop tools, engines, and technology that power other Ubisoft studios, specifically enabling open world and systemic gameplay across major franchises like Assassin's Creed ,

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The PS Plus Extra Lineup of June 2026 Titles is Stacked With Massive RPGs, Headlined by Final Fantasy XVI

PlayStation has revealed its June 2026 batch of PS Plus Extra and Premium games, adding seven new games to the game catalog available to subscribers at the Extra tier, while Premium subscribers get an eighth game via the Classics catalog. On top of the three games already added for Essential subscribers, headlining this month's games is the 2023 epic, Final Fantasy XVI , which also enters the service alongside other deep narrative experiences.

Just a few short months after it received an update for current-

A PlayStation Plus promotional image shows new additions to the game catalog featuring titles like 'Final Fantasy XVI,' 'Sonic Generations,' and 'Farming Simulator 25,' available on 'Premium' and 'Extra' tiers.
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ASUS Goes Big With TUF Gaming 7X, Deploying A 47-Liter Chassis For RTX 5060 Ti-Powered Desktop

Unlike the existing TUF gaming desktops, ASUS went with a much larger chassis to accommodate bigger components.

Popular hardware maker ASUS has launched its latest gaming desktop called TUF Gaming 7X in China, featuring a newer configuration and a much larger chassis than the existing TUF Gaming desktops. Usually, TUF Gaming desktops utilize a compact 15-liter chassis to ensure a smaller footprint without sacrificing performance, but this time, ASUS went with a much larger chassis to ensure easier upgradeability.

As reported by @realVictor_M , the

An ASUS gaming PC showcasing RGB cooling fans and a GeForce RTX graphics card, with airflow visuals highlighting the case's ventilation system.
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Square Enix Dangles Dirge of Cerberus Revival After Final Fantasy VII Revelation, But Part 3’s Climax Rests On Aerith’s Fate

Being the conclusion of the trilogy, Final Fantasy VII Revelation will see the return of all the main cast of its predecessors, including Zack Fair, whose role will be expanded over Final Fantasy VII Rebirth , even though he was nowhere to be seen in the Summer Game Fest reveal trailer. The other character prominently featured in the game's key art but absent from the trailer is Aerith , who may also play a significant role in the third and final entry in the series, judging from what director Naoki Hamaguchi told Famitsu


Apple Modified The Frequencies Of Its WWDC 2026 Keynote To Avoid Triggering Your Devices Each Time Siri Was Mentioned

Apple spends an inordinate amount of time on the minutiae of its events, which are typically planned down to a T, with the proverbial to-do list for the recent keynote apparently including gestures as thoughtful as modifying specific frequencies to avoid unintentionally triggering your Apple devices.

Apple's obsession with perfection is quite a novelty in the tech sphere. And, if you needed a specific evidence of the iPhone maker's minutiae-obsessed proclivities, look no further than this week's WWDC 2026 keynote address


Xbox CEO Signals the Potential of Cheaper Next-Gen Hardware as she Admits it’s “Hard to Imagine” Players Affording $1K+ Consoles

Xbox's new chief executive officer Asha Sharma continues to spend the beginning of her tenure undoing the decisions of the previous regime. After Sarah Bond described the next generation of Xbox as a " very premium, very high-end, curated experience, " Sharma is relaying a seemingly more realistic message. One where she and her regime understand that players will likely neither be willing nor capable of spending thousands of dollars on new hardware, and that the platform will need to try something other than just trying to deliver a '

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iPhone 18’s RAM Upgrade Depends On Whether Apple Will Downgrade One Component, And It’s Not A Bad Trade-Off To Be Honest

Apple had pretty much made it clear during WWDC 2026 that having more RAM in any device will help you keep it for longer while enjoying a truckload of features. While the company won’t have issues bringing 12GB of memory to the pricier iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max , the base model is where Apple could be torn as it combats the ongoing DRAM shortage .

Fortunately, there’s still a way to bring the same RAM count to the standard version, but it


AMD Says EPYC Turin Already Crushes NVIDIA Vera by 2.37x in Agentic AI, With Zen 6 Venice Pushing the Lead Past 3.3x

AMD has posted new benchmarks of its EPYC CPUs , including upcoming Venice against NVIDIA Vera, showcasing a huge performance advantage.

Agentic AI is pushing all major manufacturers to accelerate their CPU development as they race to drive multi-GW AI factories. The three major manufacturers involved in this race include AMD, Intel, & NVIDIA. Others, such as Arm, Qualcomm, and Broadcom, are also working on their own Agentic AI CPUs, but they have yet to start supplying their latest chips to AI firms.

With that said

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Apple Is Craftily Using Siri AI To Push You Towards iPhone 18 Pro Duo And Away From The Low-Margin Base iPhone 18

Apple has deliberately, and quite craftily so, shaped a paradigm where Siri AI's most powerful features will only be available on the Pro iPhones from now onward, which only serves to add another demand-related tailwind to the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, while subduing the expected uptake of the low-margin and high-volume base iPhone 18 variant.

As we detailed in a dedicated post, the all-new Siri AI and Apple Intelligence is powered by 3 cloud-based models, with

An infographic titled 'The Logic Behind Apple's On-Device Model Architecture' explains how Apple's approach with sparse mask prediction and selective parameter loading allows a large 20B model to be efficiently run on iPhone by staying within DRAM constraints.

Valve Discontinues Physical Steam Gift Cards at Retail Stores Due to Constantly Adapting Gift Card Scams

Valve has made a slight but not insignificant change to how you can buy games on Steam . The physical pre-paid Steam gift cards that you may have seen in your local retail shops will be no more, as the company decides to discontinue the cards due to an uptick in scammers using Steam cards (and the gift cards of other major brands) to run various schemes and scam people out of their money .

The notice quietly came as a part of the support page for Steam Gift cards (spotted by user SteamDB

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