Apple iPhone 18 Pro Leak Settles a Weeks-Long Debate, Details A New ‘Dark Cherry’ Color Option

Tech-related tipsters are infamous for making a mountain out of a molehill on the flimsiest of semantics. Over the past few weeks, a relentless back-and-forth ensued vis-à-vis the size of the pill-shaped cutout and the associated Dynamic Island on the Apple iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max .

Thankfully, that debate has largely settled in favor of a smaller Dynamic Island. And, along the way, we've also received an intriguing tidbit about the iPhone 18 Pro duo'


Gigabyte Z890 AORUS Elite DUO X Motherboard Review – CQDIMM-Ready!

The Intel LGA 1700 platform was launched three years ago in 2021, and it has since seen a total of 3 generations of CPUs: Alder Lake (12th Gen), Raptor Lake (13th Gen), and Raptor Lake Refresh (14th Gen). We have seen at least three generations of motherboards, first with the 600-series, which had Z690 as the top SKU, and then two generations of 70

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PRAGMATA: How To Solve Crashing Issues On PC

Crashing issues in PRAGMATA on PC can occur before you even start the game proper, with Fatal D3D errors also happening when trying to enable Path Tracing or changing Frame Generation options. Some users have reported these crashes even without touching these settings, suggesting a possible hardware conflict.

To solve these issues and enjoy the game on PC, two workarounds have currently been found.

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Games powered by the RE Engine (such as Resident Evil Requiem and Monster Hunter Wilds ) are notoriously sensitive to GPU overclocking and software


Phantom Blade Zero’s Side Quests Can Change the Main Story — “Who You Are Depends on What You Do”

The official X account of Phantom Blade Zero has a brief video interview with S-GAME founder and creative director Soulframe Liang, in which the developer seemed to outline an Honor system not unlike the one in Rockstar's masterpiece, Red Dead Redemption 2 . In that game, most player actions, such as helping strangers or killing innocents, affected a full-fledged morality mechanic that influenced NPC behavior, shop prices, loot quality, and even the story's ending.

Fans understandably started to get excited about this.

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Yellowstone Co-Creator and Battleship Director Will Look to Make a Call of Duty Movie That “Feels Real” With “Epic Scope” for June 2028

Almost a decade ago , Activision was looking like it would be moving forward with a Call of Duty movie. But it wasn't too much longer before that project was put on hold , and years later, here we are with no film based on the long-running military shooter franchise. Now, after rejecting a pitch from legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg , Activision will look to make a film that " feels really real and infuses that with epic scope " off the backs of Yellowstone co-creator Taylor Sheridan and Battleship

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Dimensity 9600 Pro Beats A19 Pro And Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 By 25% In Benchmarks, But Extreme Heat May Erase That Gap

One of the first recipients of TSMC’s 2nm ‘N2P’ process will be the Dimensity 9600 Pro, enabling MediaTek to move over to a new CPU cluster while also rumored to target higher 5.00GHz clock speeds for significantly improved single-core and multi-core performance. Now, one tipster has shared the first Geekbench 6 scores belonging to the chipset, with the results being up to 25 percent faster than the A19 Pro, Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5


Intel’s PC Business Survival Hinges on 18A As Shortages Drive AMD & Intel CPU Costs Up By 15%

Intel & AMD are facing severe shortages of CPUs, prompting a global disruption in PC and industrial segments, driving costs further up.

Currently, the global CPU market is witnessing massive shortages. We have already shared how CPUs are the next component that will be affected by the Agentic AI frenzy . The relation between enterprise and client processor shortages is very simple. AI is the bigger market now, and production lines need to be prioritized to keep up with the demand.

Hyperscalers and cloud providers have already run out of CPUs to


Gears of War: E-Day Is Righting the Ship, Says Bleszinski; “You’re Not Fighting Those Stupid Robots”

Cliff Bleszinski , the American game designer known primarily for his work on the Gears and Unreal franchises at Epic, shared his positive outlook on the upcoming prequel, Gears of War: E-Day .

In a video interview , the game developer highlights that The Coalition has made the right choice in focusing on making the Locust scary again, rather than presenting enemies like the DeeBees robots. Bleszinski added that he has high hopes for this game, which looks like a return to the original trilogy's dark tone that was a

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Apple’s Stan Ng Watched the Sunrise From Apple Park on His Original iPod — Then Ended His 31-Year Career

Apple's Stan Ng, an emblem of the old guard, has retired.

Kojima Still Makes Games the Metal Gear Way, Prioritizing Impact Over Fun, and Troy Baker Calls That Miraculous

Although Hideo Kojima's games, such as the Death Stranding series, can be divisive , anyone who has experienced them cannot deny that the legendary game designer's approach is unique. According to actor Troy Baker , who plays Higgs in the series, this stems from a vision that prioritizes making the player "walk away impacted than entertained," a philosophy that allows him to "swing big" in a way that feels miraculous.

"I think that there's a lot of people that are making games –