Back in November 2025 , we got the information drop everyone was waiting for: the release date for GTA 6 . Yes, it came packaged as a delay announcement, and there was technically no guarantee it would stick, but it ultimately has, as we finally got the other bit of information everyone has been waiting for today: how much Rockstar's long-awaited game would cost .

$80 for the Standard Edition and $100 for the Ultimate Edition calmed fears that the barrier to

1047 Games, the studio known for making Splitgate and who are arguably more known for how its CEO Ian Proulx tried to make a statement at Summer Game Fest 2025 with a hat that fell flat, have just released their next game. No, it's not yet another iteration of Splitgate after 1047's attempt at Splitgate 2 failed drastically, it's instead a Titanfall-like movement shooter called Empulse , and it's available in early access now.

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The hotfix came just after a day when users started reporting errors on their Windows 10 systems.

Just yesterday, AMD acknowledged a new problem with its recent Adrenalin driver on Windows 10. If you read our report, you might know that many users complained about compatibility issues concerning Adrenalin Edition 26.6.2 , which adds FSR 4.1 support to RDNA 3, aka Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards.

The problem also showed in the form of a yellow bang in Device Manager,

Hygon, China's premier chipmaker, has presented its latest CPUs and GPUs for data centers, offering up to 128 cores & 512 threads.

Hygon, based in Beijing, China, has been hard at work producing high-quality chips for the domestic markets. Their previous C86 solutions, designed in collaboration with AMD , have seen major interest by domestic players, and now, the next-generation C86 processor development is underway.

Now, Hygon has shared plans to develop six

It's hard to feel sorry for Apple these days even if its margins are in a vise-like squeeze, courtesy of the relentless increase in the price of memory chips. After all, over the past decade, Apple inflated the price of its flagship iPhone model by 60 percent, when the average CPI basket grew by just 37 percent.

Apple used to secure memory chips via 1-year or even longer contracts, winning hefty discounts relative to the prevailing market price of the time. Now, however

In the world of PC gaming performance analysis, we tend to obsess over frame times, and for good reason. A simple average FPS number can be extremely misleading, while a frame time graph can immediately show you whether a game is delivering frames smoothly or whether it is suffering from stutters, hitches, CPU/platform bottlenecks, or other forms of inconsistent frame pacing.

However, as useful as frame times are, there is one major problem with relying on them alone: they do not always tell us what the player

Qualcomm is expanding its chip-design services to China as it is reportedly in early talks with ByteDance.

Custom-chip designs are picking up momentum across the tech industry, and a report by Reuters suggests that Qualcomm might be assisting ByteDance, a leading Chinese firm, with chip-design services.

Although the talks between Qualcomm and ByteDance are still early, if they succeed, then that would make ByteDance one of the first customers of Qualcomm's chip-design services. The move will also help Qualcomm diversify its revenue

With Destiny 2 now fully in the rear view , the team at Bungie is full-steam ahead on Marathon , though that hasn't resulted in a sudden uptick in players swarming the extraction shooter. Season 2 is going about as well as Season 1, and despite its critical acclaim and a small dedicated core group of players, Marathon continues to struggle to attract the kinds of numbers multiplayer games are practically required to earn to find commercial success.

But if Bungie can keep iterating and tweaking Marathon, it wouldn't

OpenAI has just announced its first custom chip called Jalapeño, which is aimed at AI Inference workloads & produced by Broadcom.

Today, OpenAI announced that it has built and designed its first AI chip, which they are calling Jalapeño. Interesting choice of name for a chip that came fresh off the baking ovens at Broadcom, who are responsible for producing this chip.

The Jalapeño Intelligence Processor and its first wafer were shown off by OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, and Broadcom's CEO