When Marathon launched back in March, and after the launch of Cryo Archive , outside of dwindling player numbers , the dark cloud hanging over the game has been the question of how players will deal with Bungie's promise of seasonal resets . Of course, we don't know how that'll go until it happens, but we now know when it'll happen, as Bungie reveals that Season 2: Nightfall will start on June 2, 2026, and makes some significant changes for the remainder
Embark Studios is “Building for the Long-Term” by Cutting ARC Raiders Updates Down to Twice a Year for “More Impactful” Releases
ARC Raiders was one of 2025's biggest games, with millions of copies sold and, for a time, hundreds of thousands of players diving into the Rust Belt every day on Steam alone. While some of its momentum has waned, developer Embark Studios is looking to address the problems the community has recently had with the game, and has announced a new strategy for how ARC Raiders will evolve going forward.
The long and short of it is that Embark is moving away from its previous cadence of updates

AMD’s EPYC Steamrolls the Server Market With Record 46.2% Revenue Share, Now Commands 30% of the Entire CPU Segment
AMD's Q1 2026 CPU statistics are out, with its server side scoring a mighty 46.2% revenue share as EPYC sales continue to gain momentum.
has shared the latest CPU statistics results for Q1 2026, showcasing AMD's superb performance in the x86 segment. AMD's total CPU unit share reached 30%, up 5.6 points versus last year, while its overall revenue share increased to 38.1%.
The full
PS Plus Extra’s May 2026 Additions Headlined by Star Wars Outlaws and Red Dead Redemption 2 Joining the Game Catalog
PlayStation has May's batch of PS Plus Extra and Premium games joining the Games Catalog and the Classic's Catalog, and it's a pretty solid list of seven games joining the service, headlined by Star Wars Outlaws and Red Dead Redemption 2 , with an eighth title joining the Classic's library.
This batch is arguably a better offering than what we had last month, especially considering that one of the bigger titles from April's PS Plus Extra games, Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered , was a game

James Bond’s Return to Games is Finally Ready as IO Interactive Confirms 007 First Light has Gone Gold
IO Interactive's long-awaited James Bond adventure, 007 First Light has officially gone gold , the developer announced today ahead of the game's release in two weeks.
It's a milestone that we've been waiting a while for, after it was delayed from its initial March 2026 release date to its May 27, 2026, release date. Now we have an official marker that the game is ready ahead of its launch, with the rest of the

Samsung’s Dilemma Ahead Of Next Week’s Union-Led Strike: Give In Or Absorb $20 Billion In Losses As Workers Jeer “Slave Contracts”
Samsung's latest round of negotiations with its unionized workers has collapsed, as has the final window for reaching an amicable solution ahead of next week's highly disruptive union-led strike.
Only a complete capitulation by either party can now defer what otherwise is shaping up to be an 18-day strike, with recovery timelines extending twice as long.
And yet, it is precisely this capitulation that has become nearly impossible at this stage, given the entrenched positions on both sides of the proverbial aisle.
For the
Returnal Fans Flocked to Saros, but it’s Reportedly Off to a Slower Start and Could “Struggle to Break Even”
Saros , the new third-person bullet-hell shooter from PlayStation Studios' team Housemarque arrived right at the tail-end of the past month on April 30 , and while it's undoubtedly a hit with critics ( our own Kai Tatsumoto included ), it doesn't appear to be making the same impact on the sales charts, at least according to the latest estimations from .
The firm's latest report focused on the new first-party PS5 exclusive title, estimating that it has been able

PlayStation Exec Pushes Back at Gaming Industry Doom Talk, Says Next Few Years Will Be Even Better Than 2025
There's been a lot of " doom talk " in the gaming industry following studio closures , regular layoffs at big and small companies alike , and rising game development times and budgets. In late March, John Romero and Brenda Romero opined that the current state of the industry is even worse than the infamous 80s crash , which saw the revenue collapse by 97% between 1983 and 1985 in North America.
However, not everyone shares their opinion. , Christian Svensson , VP

Apple Taps Intel 18A-P For M7 Chip By 2027 & 14A For iPhone Chip By 2028, Claims Rumor
TSMC's constraints have pushed Apple to make a chip-making deal with Intel , & is likely to produce two chips on 18A-P & 14A process technologies, as per rumors.
Last week, it was revealed that Apple and Intel have signed a preliminary chipmaking agreement in which Apple would tap into Intel's Foundry business to produce its chips. The agreement is said to have been signed back in December 2025, as per GF Holdings, and plenty of other factors also
Intel’s Core Ultra X9 378H Finally Surfaces Inside Lenovo’s Yoga Air 14 Ultra Aura
The Yoga Air 14 Ultra Aura will be available in various configurations, offering budget and high-end Panther Lake SKUs.
Unlike the flagship Panther Lake SKU, the Core Ultra X9 388H, the Ultra X9 378H remains invisible in the market. However, Lenovo has just begun using this SKU in one of its premium laptops. As reported by , the company is set to deploy the Core Ultra X9 378H (Not Ultra X7 378H )