Chris Avellone , a revered RPG game designer legend and former co-founder of Obsidian Entertainment , was the first to report last November that the Californian studio would work on Avowed 2 while dropping The Outer Worlds franchise.

This info was confirmed yesterday, albeit as part of Xbox 's big reset, led by new CEO Asha Sharma , who mandated from above that the studio cancel the sequel while greenlighting a new Fallout game . That, at least, was Bloomberg's report, penned by Jason Schreier.

However, Avellone

With global AI demand increasing the semiconductor contract manufacturing industry's importance, Samsung, along with TSMC, is increasing prices, says a report from the Korean media. The Korean firm is hiking the prices for certain manufacturing process technology nodes, say the sources, which is a different strategy than TSMC's. The price hikes stem from higher demand, which has shifted the dynamics of the semiconductor manufacturing industry to supply-driven pricing instead of demand-driven pricing.

Before the rapid and large-scale AI infrastructure buildout

Under normal circumstances, calling up a Verizon helpline wouldn’t yield a favorable outcome for the customer, but a Loyalty Discount subscriber who had been with the U.S. carrier for 13 years managed to find a loophole that allowed him to reduce his bill by 40 percent. As for how he successfully obtained a discount, a little investigation reveals that all it took was a little patience and conversing with a Verizon representative.

A 4-line bill for Verizon customer “tbonehaj” on Reddit would typically receive

The sheer scale of the ongoing increase in DRAM and NAND costs is unprecedented by any definition of the word, as Apple's Tim Cook also recently highlighted by conceding that he had " never seen anything like this in over 40 years ."

A simple statement, however, rarely conveys the full extent of a paradigm-altering upheaval, and to get some much-needed clarity, you should look no further than the upcoming Apple iPhone 18 Pro Max's Bill of Materials (BOM) breakdown, where

The latest wave of layoffs at Microsoft's Xbox which is set to cut a total of 3,200 jobs by July 2027 is set to have significant consequences across every studio still under the umbrella. id Software is among the developers that has been impacted the most, as not only 136 developers were laid off from the studio , but also reportedly the entirety, or close by, of the id Tech team which worked on the great game engine that powers games such as DOOM Eternal

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is reportedly betting heavily on major Bethesda Game Studios franchises like The Elder Scrolls and Fallout , yet it is exactly the studios behind The Elder Scrolls that are among the most affected by the recent layoffs.

ZeniMax Online Studios , maker of The Elder Scrolls Online , was forced to cut 213 employees , forcing the team to revise its announced roadmap for the game. But even BGS itself was gutted . The Union already mentioned via social media that dozens were removed , making the road to the launch of

One of the biggest server CPU stacks is about to officially launch soon, as AMD prepares for new EPYC Venice CPUs.

AMD to Introduce Zen 6-Based EPYC Venice CPUs at Advancing AI Event on July 22nd and 23rd, While Mainstream Chips Should Launch Much Later

AMD's CTO and EVP, Mark Papermaster, has just confirmed that the next-generation Zen 6-based AMD EPYC "Venice" CPUs are going to get officially introduced this month. We knew from previous reports that the company had

Newer and more powerful OLED displays keep emerging; considering this, VESA has decided to introduce a new premium tier of HDR certification.

We keep hearing about newer OLED displays hitting high peak brightness, delivering incredible HDR performance. Considering the current rapid development in the OLED industry, VESA has introduced a new certification standard for modern OLED displays that will require the displays to perform exceptionally well out of the box.

VESA has officially introduced the DisplayHDR True Black 1400 standard, which remains its highest certification tier yet for OLED

The continuous improvement of processors meant that these chips could eventually be accommodated in extremely compact casings, taking up a minuscule amount of space while maintaining performance. This progress materialized the mini PC market , and which company knows better about this product line than ACEMAGIC? Even in the age of the DRAM shortage , Amazon has four options you can grab right now. Best of all, you can get up to a mouth-watering 25 percent off on the online retailer.

The best part about this deal is that buyers on