Category: Hardware

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In July, Square Enix unveiled the newest entry in its Octopath Traveler series of role-playing games in the publisher’s HD-2D retro pixel sprite style. This prequel, Octopath Traveler 0, adds features but in my short time with the game I feel it loses some of the charm of the former games in the series, which…

Elden Ring Nightreign, the co-op survival take on FromSoftware’s massively successful open-world single-player game, is getting a DLC at the end of this year. The Forsaken Hollows launches on December 4, 2025. This DLC is the first big content update for the spinoff, although Nightreign did receive previous updates to add improved tuning for the…

In February 1982, Apple employee #8 Chris Espinosa faced a problem that would feel familiar to anyone who has ever had a micromanaging boss: Steve Jobs wouldn’t stop critiquing his calculator design for the Mac. After days of revision cycles, the 21-year-old programmer found an elegant solution: He built what he called the “Steve Jobs…

AMD has just revealed an updated Zen roadmap for its CPUs at Financial Analyst Day, labeled “Leadership CPU Core Roadmap.” While it doesn’t delve into details — or even show any new ones — we do get explicit confirmations for a bunch of previously-rumored (albeit obvious) tech. AMD also made Zen 7 official for the…

Google’s current mission is to weave generative AI into as many products as it can, getting everyone accustomed to, and maybe even dependent on, working with confabulatory robots. That means it needs to feed the bots a lot of your data, and that’s getting easier with the company’s new Private AI Compute. Google claims its…

AMD’s roadmap marches on: the company confirmed the presence of its next-generation Zen 7 architecture, its “Gorgon” and “Medusa” 2026 and 2027 processors, and talked briefly about the company’s next-generation PC graphics roadmap as well. AMD hosted a day for financial analysts on Tuesday, outlining its businesses for a cadre of Wall Street investors and…

Disney’s spat with Google’s YouTube TV over a new content distribution contract is costing the entertainment giant $4.3 million a day in lost revenue, Morgan Stanley estimates. That’s $30 million a week as the blackout of channels including ABC and ESPN stretches into its 12th day, Variety reports, though the analysts expect Disney and Google…

Lumines Arise, the latest chapter in the popular puzzle game franchise, is out today. It’s available for PlayStation 5, including on PlayStation VR2, and on Steam, with support for both VR and Steam Deck. I’m a bit of a Tetris fiend. If there’s any game with falling and spinning geometric pieces, be they tetrominoes or…

It’s a warm fall afternoon at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, and a gentle breeze blows through the meticulously landscaped trees lining the walkways. On one end of the campus, a ray of sunshine hits the famed Team Disney building, where 19-foot-tall stone carvings of the seven dwarfs (of Snow White fame) hold up…