Right at the end of January 2026, the stock price of several major video game companies took a serious dive with the reveal of Project Genie , an experiment from Google that appeared capable of making video games entirely with GenAI .

At least that's how investors understood Project Genie as they demonstrated their vast knowledge of video game development by causing the stock values of Unity, Take-Two Interactive, CD Projekt RED, and Roblox to all take a temporary nosedive the moment they laid eyes on it.

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Apple's portfolio of affordable devices has exploded in recent years not only in volume but also in terms of the nebulous "value" metric, targeting nearly every possible cohort of consumers, so much so that now you can get the iPhone 17e, the MacBook Neo, the iPad 11, the Apple Watch SE 3, and the AirPods 4 for roughly the same price as the highest end iPhone 17 Pro Max, with some change to spare.

The 2TB version of

At GDC 2026 , Valve has officially set its requirements for the Steam Machine Verified badge, targeting native 1080p resolution . This resolution floor aligns with early analysis of the system's specifications, which highlighted how 4K@60 FPS gameplay on the system would rely heavily on AMD FSR upscaling .

, Valve confirmed again that all Steam Deck Verified games will also be Steam Machine Verified , with the same input expectations as the handheld. The biggest surprise, however, is in the required

Tenstorrent has unveiled its TT-QuietBox 2 AI Workstation, powered by the RISC-V architecture, featuring liquid cooling & 128 GB of VRAM for $9999.

The Tenstorrent TT-QuietBox 2 is an AI workstation designed to fulfill the needs of AI enterprises and customers. It features the company's , which is powered by 16 big RISC-V cores & pack up to 32 GB of GDDR6 memory. The QuietBox 2 is configured with up to four of these Blackhole cards

Meta's custom silicon isn't going anywhere, and according to the company's new announcements, it appears that they have 'doubled down' on ASIC efforts, focusing on inference-class performance.

The demand for compute has become so tremendous that hyperscalers are eventually "forced" to diversify away from traditional options offered by GPU manufacturers like NVIDIA, and one way to do so is to develop custom silicon. Google and Amazon are two of the more prominent examples of how 'fruitful' ASIC efforts can turn

Considering the fact that Fortnite initially launched almost a full decade ago, there are likely more than a few of the youths who spend their gaming time jumping out of the battle bus who have no idea what the game looked like when it first launched. Epic Games didn't initially launch this battle royale smash hit that took over the world. It began as a very different game as Fortnite: Save the World, a PvE, co-op action-building game.

Now, however, even more so than with

AMD's CEO, Lisa Su, is reportedly flying to South Korea next week to meet with executives to discuss memory and supply chain matters.

For companies like AMD and NVIDIA, which are involved in the world's largest infrastructure buildout, it's probably in their best interests to keep their supply chain partners close, and we have already seen Jensen execute on this. NVIDIA's CEO visited Taiwan and South Korea several times last year to meet with supply chain executives, which has helped the firm maintain an

Newer Z890 models from GIGABYTE have arrived, alongside new features for boosting performance.

As Intel launches the Arrow Lake "Refresh" series CPUs , motherboard vendors like GIGABYTE have announced their newest motherboard models, specially tuned for the new chips. GIGABYTE previously showcased some newer models at CES in January that were designed to support the refreshed chips out of the box. The company has now launched those models along with some more, boasting new technologies to improve performance.

The GIGABYTE Z890 Plus series will have

DOOM developer id Software has been breathing new life into the long-running iconic shooter series with new entries since the excellent 2016 reboot. Meanwhile, Quake , the other iconic 90s first-person shooter that had an incredibly huge impact on the genre, has been kept alive with remasters of the first two games , RTX patches , and the hope that a new Quake game could finally be in the works.

Well, though it may not be a lot to go off, a new trademark filing