All articles published by The Daily Perspective from 28 February to 29 March 2026.
IBM and Lam Research announce a major collaboration to push semiconductor scaling beyond 1nm using dry resist technology and advanced lithography at New York's Albany NanoTech Complex.
Fatima Al-Rashid 
Lisuan's new 7G106 gaming GPU represents a real engineering achievement for China, but early benchmarks reveal a more complex picture than headlines suggest.
Tom Whitfield 
Google has unveiled task automation for Gemini that lets AI handle multi-step tasks like booking rides or ordering food. The feature raises questions about AI access to sensitive data.
Zara Mitchell 
As nearly half of Australia's teachers consider quitting, the government's funding boost ignores the structural workload issues driving them away.
Grace Okonkwo 
Nvidia's new Mega Geometry foliage system tackles the biggest bottleneck in real-time path tracing: forests and complex scenes. The Witcher 4 and Control Resonant will be the first major titles to implement it.
Nina Papadopoulos 
Seven years after Disco Elysium's release, ZA/UM is trying to forge a different path with Zero Parades, a spy thriller designed to avoid direct comparison to its breakthrough hit.
Sophia Vargas 
Embark Studios almost abandoned its PvP overhaul for Arc Raiders after early testing showed negative sentiment. Deeper analysis revealed the real culprits: weapon balance and matchmaking issues, not the concept itself.
Fatima Al-Rashid 
A survey of biomedical technicians shows 83% face delays in parts and repair materials, with 70% reporting diagnostic tool restrictions delay patient care. Manufacturers defend tight controls as safety measures.
Nadia Souris 
Ukraine is offering allies access to battlefield data from four years of war with Russia, allowing them to train artificial intelligence models for autonomous military systems in exchange for faster development of its own defence technologies.
Oliver Pemberton 
Police are investigating after two men were found with gunshot wounds in a vehicle they were using to flee a brawl in western Sydney's Chester Hill late Thursday night.
Rachel Thornbury 
A labour dispute between Capcom and SAG-AFTRA has left the voice cast of Mega Man: Dual Override in limbo, with the union banning its members from working on the 2027 game.
Sophia Vargas 
Pearl Abyss's highly anticipated RPG gets a clean bill of health on PS5 Pro but draws fire over last-minute DRM reveal on Steam, raising familiar concerns about transparency and performance.
Tom Whitfield 
In a lengthy podcast interview, former Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan took aim at artificial intelligence hype in game development, arguing that no amount of computing power can replicate human creativity.
Ella Sullivan 
Law enforcement agencies from eight countries have dismantled SocksEscort, a residential proxy service that facilitated digital fraud costing tens of millions of dollars.
Aisha Khoury 
Forza Horizon 6's Tokyo City is so large and detailed that Playground Games assigned a dedicated development team just to build it, reflecting the studio's broader expansion as the game approaches May release.
Oliver Pemberton 
Sandfall Interactive's Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 leads the 2026 BAFTA Games Awards with 12 nominations, the most ever for a debut game. The ceremony takes place April 17.
Zara Mitchell 
Crimson Desert will launch with Denuvo DRM on Steam, announced just seven days before release. The timing has angered pre-order customers and reignited debate over anti-piracy software's cost to legitimately paying players.
Tom Whitfield 
Embark Studios' Arc Raiders is now a hit, but early in development, nobody at the studio could even agree on what the game was supposed to be.
Oliver Pemberton 
New benchmarks show Apple's budget MacBook Neo, powered by an iPhone chip, outperforms every x86 processor from Intel and AMD in single-core performance. It's a watershed moment for the chip wars.
Jake Nguyen 
An analyst report predicts PC gaming revenue will grow faster than consoles through 2028, though industry forecasts for the sector remain contested.
Sophia Vargas 
Phil Spencer has retired after nearly four decades at Microsoft, leaving Xbox in a complicated position. The new leadership promises change, but fundamental problems remain.
Jake Nguyen 
Google has released Groundsource, a new AI system that extracts flood data from millions of historical news articles to provide flash-flood warnings up to 24 hours in advance across 150 countries.
Darren Ong 
Oracle's latest restructuring fund increase signals mounting financial pressure as it tries to fund a $50 billion AI infrastructure expansion while managing over $100 billion in debt.
Oliver Pemberton 
European game ratings are being revamped to account for loot boxes, battle passes, and other interactive features that were previously ignored. EA's popular FC series will likely jump from age 3 to age 16.
Kate Morrison 
When AdHoc Studio struggled to find its artistic voice before pitching Dispatch, a desperate search on ArtStation led them to an artist whose work would define one of 2025's biggest games.
James Callahan 
A Finnish indie horror game marketed as accessible through one-handed mouse controls instead becomes a vehicle for deeply unsettling body horror gameplay.
Mitchell Tan 
Universal Pictures has announced it will keep major films in cinemas for at least five weeks before releasing them digitally, marking a significant shift away from pandemic-era strategies that cut theatrical runs to just 17 days.
Ella Sullivan 
Computer memory prices will remain inflated through at least late 2027 as AI demand continues to starve consumer electronics, while a fresh geopolitical crisis threatens helium supplies essential for chip production.
Oliver Pemberton 
Xbox has confirmed Project Moorcroft, a 2022 initiative to deliver curated game demos through Game Pass, will never launch. The abandoned scheme reflects a wider pattern of unfulfilled promises under departing leadership.
Jake Nguyen 
Amazon has expanded Alexa+ personality options with a new 'Sassy' mode for adults, featuring profanity and attitude while maintaining safeguards against harmful content.
Sophia Vargas