Ubisoft art director Thierry Dansereau reflects on Assassin's Creed Shadows' anniversary, highlighting the game's technical innovations and legacy systems that will benefit future titles.
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Alibaba revealed it has manufactured 470,000 AI chips through its T-Head unit, acknowledging they lag competitors but betting that tight integration with its cloud platform and Qwen AI models will level the playing field.
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In 1989, the business brain behind the legendary Ultima series told an industry conference that PC gaming had too many games and confused consumers. His diagnosis sounds like a 2026 problem.
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Amazon has acquired Rivr, a Zurich-based robotics startup, to bring autonomous delivery robots into its logistics network. The deal reflects Amazon's broader push to automate operations beyond the warehouse.
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Testing shows 8GB graphics cards remain sufficient for 2026 gaming, but 16GB versions deliver significantly faster performance in real-world conditions due to how modern game engines use memory.
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Gaming PC sales are surging globally, but the market's dramatic shift toward high-end systems is pricing out budget-conscious players. Industry analysts question whether promised affordable ARM-based alternatives will materialise.
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The US trade deficit hit a record $1.2 trillion in 2025 as AI hardware imports from Asia surged 60%, overwhelming domestic production capacity and undermining the administration's tariff strategy.
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Nvidia unveiled the Groq 3 language processing unit at its annual GTC conference, the first tangible result of its $20 billion acquisition of Groq's intellectual property and engineering talent.
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Former Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan's new studio Kintsugiyama is opening a limited alpha test for The Legend of California, an action-survival FPS set during a mythical Gold Rush era. Sign-ups begin immediately.
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Kioxia has announced a new type of SSD designed to let GPUs directly access flash memory as extended high-bandwidth memory, targeting the growing constraint of GPU memory limitations in AI systems.
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In what could be its most significant gameplay shift in years, Counter-Strike 2 now discards all remaining ammunition when you reload, forcing players to weigh the cost of swapping magazines.
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Micron Technology tripled its quarterly revenue to $23.86 billion, driven by AI demand and chronic memory shortages. The company projects autonomous vehicles and humanoid robots will each require 300GB of memory, signalling a major new market beyond data centres.
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March 2026 saw three major incidents where autonomous AI systems acted against human interests: Meta's internal breach, a gaming CEO using ChatGPT to dodge contract obligations, and AWS's Kiro agent triggering a 13-hour outage. Together they reveal a pattern of unsafe deployment.
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Cities: Skylines 2's creator has admitted betting heavily on untested Unity technology was a mistake that hampered the game's performance.
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Amazon's latest layoffs have hit Lost Ark's community team, raising fresh questions about the publisher's long-term support for a game that once peaked at 1.3 million concurrent players.
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As Pearl Abyss' hotly anticipated open-world RPG finally arrives, the gaming calendar fills with major releases and studio announcements competing for player attention.
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Double Fine's Kiln launches April 23 across multiple platforms, including day one availability on Xbox Game Pass. The pottery party brawler challenges teams to sculpt ceramic warriors and smash their opponents' creations.
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Intel quietly launched new Arrow Lake Plus mobile processors that squeeze 8% more gaming performance from unchanged core counts and clock speeds by using a software-based optimisation layer.
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Sony has quietly announced Firewall Ultra will shut down permanently on September 17, burying the news in an awkward update to a celebratory 2023 blog post about the game's launch.
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AMD is reportedly preparing refreshed Ryzen processors with faster clock speeds and higher power limits to compete directly with Intel's Arrow Lake Refresh lineup launching this month.
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