NEXON 's reveals that the third-person extraction shooter game ARC Raiders has now broken the impressive milestone of 16 million units sold in around six and a half months . The game sold 4.6 million units in Q1 alone , reaching 15.5 million by the end of Q1 before crossing 16M as of this report. Needless to say, it is the most successful new product release in the company's history .
ARC Raiders, together with new NEXON releases, drove horizontal revenue
A few years after the launch of digital storefronts like the PlayStation Store and the Nintendo eShop , it seemed like digital releases would never replace physical game releases, as gamers preferred to purchase retail releases of their favorite games. While it looked like this wouldn't be changing in the foreseeable future, we are reaching a point where physical releases could indeed be dying, as major publishers like Square Enix and CAPCOM recently reported that the vast majority of their sales are digital .
Earlier today, as reported on , the Final Fantasy
The latest Arc graphics driver is out, featuring support for new titles and fixes for various bugs on Intel Arc GPUs.
Intel has officially rolled out its latest Arc Graphics Driver 32.0.101.8801 , which adds support for new titles and fixes many bugs. In the release notes, Intel confirmed adding new games such as Forza Horizon 6 , LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight , and Subnautica 2 for Intel Arc A and B series GPUs, as well as for integrated
To obtain an edge over Apple, Qualcomm and MediaTek have been reported on multiple occasions to gravitate to TSMC’s slightly improved 2nm ‘N2P’ process, which promises a 5 percent performance and efficiency improvement over N2 while utilizing the same surface area. On paper, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro and Dimensity 9600 can potentially surpass the A20 and A20 Pro this year, making it quite the feat for both Qualcomm and MediaTek, but a tipster claims that architectural
To meet the growing demands of high-frequency memory, Team Group has launched two new DDR5 memory kits that can operate at a low voltage without sacrificing memory speeds.
Running a DDR5 memory kit/module at 8000 MT/s isn't impossible or particularly challenging anymore, but the real challenge remains reducing the high voltage these modules operate at. Traditionally, JEDEC-standard DDR5 voltage is around 1.1V, but most enthusiast DDR5 memories that run at around 800
Ubisoft has partnered with French startup Unsolved Hunts to launch Gold & Crystal , a real-life worldwide promotional treasure hunt for Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced that will award $500,000 to the enterprising adventurer who finds the buried treasure.
The $500,000 treasure consists of a crystal skull (a replica of the in-game artifact, made by French lapidary artisan Hervé Obligi ) plus a chest full of gold coins minted with the AC Black Flag Resynced logo
Rockstar Games might be very close to opening the GTA 6 pre-order campaign. The rumor comes from multiple gamers who, , received a Best Buy affiliate email referencing a "GTA 6 Pre-Order (Physical Game)" promotional window running May 18–21, 2026 , with a 5% affiliate commission offer. To clarify, this is the promotional window for the aforementioned commission for Best Buy affiliates, not the GTA 6 pre-order period , which will predictably continue until the launch
The rise in demand for CPUs for agentic AI computing appears to be affecting the substrate supply chain as well. Media and analyst attention shifted to CPUs following Intel's earnings report earlier this year, which saw the firm claim that the requirements of agentic AI computing would reinvigorate the focus of AI companies on CPUs. Now, data from Japanese printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturer Ibiden's data shows that the impact of this demand is already being felt upstream in the supply chain as the firm forecasts a bump in demand
Samsung's union-led strike is not scheduled to begin until the tail-end of next week. Yet, as talks between the management and the union broke down on Wednesday in what might as well be a death knell for further negotiations, spot prices for various memory configurations are on the march, with this inflationary impulse most noticeable in the world's biggest market for electronics, Shenzhen Huaqiangbei.
According to a Taiwanese publication, the price of a typical 8GB DDR4 module has increased by in Shenzhen Huaqiangbei
The laptop industry is certainly on edge because of how Apple is probably going to eat their lunch now that the MacBook Neo is out. For $599, there aren’t many machines out there that can compete with the company’s most affordable portable Mac out there. Before its inception, there was a certain level of acceptance from customers of having to pay a premium to become the proud owner of a Mac. Now, there have been two occasions where customers who went in for a completely separate device