Anyone who has played, or even just seen, Crimson Desert in action won't fail to notice how it borrows mechanics from other popular games such as Red Dead Redemption 2 and Zelda: Breath of the Wild and its sequel, just to name a few. Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead Michael Douse didn't miss this either, saying the game is the definition of "gaming plucked off a gas station shelf." Still, this doesn't make the game any less fun.

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Soon after reporting on a major blow to the VR landscape with Rec Room's announced shuttering , prolific VR developer Polyarc , the studio behind the much-beloved Moss and Moss II games on PSVR and PS VR2 , announced that it would be suffering layoffs . The studio is cutting an undisclosed number of developers after an " unsuccessful team-wide effort " to secure funding for its next project.

The news was shared with a post on the studio's , and now, like every other VR-focused studio

VR gaming and the VR industry have just taken another blow, with one of its longest-surviving social platforms, Rec Room , shutting down as of June 1, 2026. The social VR platform has survived for a decade, though its run is coming to an end in just two months.

" Over the past decade, Rec Room grew into something amazing, reaching over 150 million players and creators along the way ," the studio wrote in announcing the news. " Players made over half

The memory market has seen a dramatic turn in the past few days, with RAM prices in mainland China now dropping aggressively.

Well, reporting on the memory industry has suddenly become interesting, considering that in the past few months we've been consistently talking about DRAM prices climbing and how, suddenly, major PC parts have started to witness shortages. However, with the release of Google's TurboQuant, the memory industry saw a domino effect, with major suppliers like SK hynix, Samsung, and Micron seeing their market

In a world dictated by the typical economic order, older devices should become cheaper over time under the relentless march of technology-led obsolescence. Yet, in the bizarro world that we currently populate, older devices are experiencing progressive price hikes. We witnessed this phenomenon with Sony's price hikes for its older gaming consoles , and Samsung is now reportedly following suit with a planned jump in retail prices for its Galaxy Z Fold 7, Galaxy Flip 7, and Galaxy S25 Edge.

According to a South Korean publication

We know that Lords of the Fallen 2 , the third Lords of the Fallen game from CI Games , which is a sequel to the 2023 reboot ( which is said to be part of the next batch of PS Plus Essential games ), is on its way. It's had a 2026 release window for a while now , and we've recently seen more gameplay deep-dives and PC specs , indicating we're nearing launch. Well, now we know just how near

The microSD Express standard will eventually pick up steam and extend beyond the Nintendo Switch 2 , so even if you don’t own the portable console and want to upgrade for the future, three Lexar Play PRO cards in the 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB capacities are now 17 percent off on Amazon. As for the starting price, you can grab one for $49.99 from the online retailer and say goodbye to those painfully slow read and write speeds.

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NVIDIA has finally introduced its brand new MFG "Multi-Frame-Gen" 6X mode, which is part of its DLSS 4.5 technology .

Back in January this year, NVIDIA introduced DLSS 4.5 , which brought an updated transformer model for enhanced super resolution quality. This model was seen as a great uplift, which expanded upon the DLSS 4.0 feature set. A second technology, which is part of the DLSS 4 suite, was also announced back then. It's called Dynamic MFG