After several days of downtime, ASUS.de is back online, but Acer has yet to restore its Germany regional website.

ASUS and Acer have been facing legal action from Nokia over a patent licensing dispute related to the HEVC/H.265 video codec.. The Munich I Regional Court forced both companies to halt direct sales of certain desktop PCs and laptops in Germany due to the same reason. The court found that ASUS and Acer had not agreed to licensing terms on Fair, Reasonable, and Non-

When you look at the state of the video game industry today, where long-running studios with veteran talent and brand-new teams (even ones built with veteran devs) get laid off entirely after their first project flops , it's easy to say that each new game hitting the market has a lot riding on it. In that general economic sense, ZA/UM's upcoming espionage CRPG, Zero Parades: For Dead Spies, has a lot riding on it. But it also carries a heavier burden

At the time of this writing, we are days away from the global release of Resident Evil Requiem , the ninth mainline entry in Capcom's long-running, beloved horror series. It's an exciting time for fans of the series and horror fans, but it's also a tense time to be online, because there are plenty of spoilers online to be found. While Capcom has already asking them not to share these spoilers, industry icon and director of Resident Evil 2 , Hideki Kamiya , has a

The production lines for the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max were rumored to undergo testing back in December , and now that we’re in the first half of 2026, the latest update hints that Apple is making efforts to prepare both flagships and the iPhone Fold for a potential launch in September. The Cupertino firm is now proceeding as scheduled, with a tipster claiming that the premium iPhone 18 models have entered trial production, while also mentioning that buyers shouldn’t expect any significant

Samsung seems to have made peace with the occasional product leaks that issue from within its convoluted and labyrinthine corporate structures. Even so, the scale, the size, and the sheer audacity of the recent channel leaks - which saw an unreleased Galaxy S26 Ultra fall into the hands of a tech YouTuber as reports emerge of a plethora of those unreleased units making their way to shady online stores - remain unprecedented, even by Samsung's relatively lax standards.

Troubling still, there were signs as early as one month back

Samsung is reported to equip the Galaxy S26 Ultra with a larger vapor chamber, which will be necessary to effectively dissipate the heat generated from the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 . The upgraded cooling solution’s prowess is demonstrated in one of the three benchmarks carried out on the flagship prior to Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event, where the throttling problem that existed in earlier problems has been somewhat addressed, though this will also depend on the region you reside in.

After learning about Galaxy S26 Ultra’s

MSI's service center just swapped the socket cover with an ASUS one, but that wasn't the only problem.

Denied RMA requests are nothing new in the industry, but carelessness on the vendor's part cannot be excused. We have seen some PC hardware makers try to back out of honoring the warranty services on silly issues, but thankfully, social media gives users a platform to report such cases. The latest one involves a Redditor u/debbiruman, who had issues with his MSI B650

On Saturday, Microsoft surprised Xbox fans with a brief but visually impressive in-engine trailer for Forza Horizon 6 that showcased the game's various biomes. The footage demonstrated the excellent level of detail provided by the latest iteration of the ForzaTech proprietary engine technology, while also offering a glimpse of the variety of environments players will be able to explore from the cockpit of their cars once the game ships in less than three months. We can see beaches, small villages, forests, the countryside, and snowy, mountainous regions

The turbulence at Microsoft's Xbox division continued on Friday, when the company suddenly announced that long-time CEO Phil Spencer and current president Sarah Bond were both leaving (the former is retiring, while the latter is pursuing other career opportunities outside Microsoft).

The new CEO of Microsoft Gaming is Asha Sharma , whose appointment is, however, already being questioned by gamers. The 36-year-old executive has no prior experience in the gaming industry ; browsing her career, this is actually the second time she