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Obsidian sued over alleged unpaid wages, missed breaks, and California labor law violations
Posted on Monday June 22, 2026
The case, Victoria Turner v. Obsidian Entertainment, was originally filed in Orange County Superior Court in October 2025. It appears to have gone largely unnoticed until Reddit user macken_zee highlighted the docket and court documents on the r/pcgaming subreddit. An amended complaint was filed on January 12, 2026.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Intel and AMD unveil new x86 standard to make CPUs better at running AI models
Posted on Monday June 22, 2026
The specification, called Advanced Compute Extensions, or ACE, lays out a way to handle AI operations more efficiently on x86 processors. It is not aimed at replacing GPUs in large-scale training environments. Instead, the focus is on smaller models, latency-sensitive tasks, and systems where a GPU is either unavailable or...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Ori director says Game Pass needs "smash hits," not studios slopping out mediocre content
Posted on Monday June 22, 2026
Xbox is going through a turbulent time, to say the least. Last week brought news that the company is closing Ninja Theory and Double Fine, with Compulsion and others set for the chopping block – part of the major layoffs that are being implemented. We've also heard that Microsoft could...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Google is spending billions to turn its TPU chips into a real challenger to Nvidia
Posted on Monday June 22, 2026
One clear example of that shift is in western New York at an AI data-center cluster called Lake Mariner, on Lake Ontario's southern shore near Niagara Falls. Alphabet's Google has provided a $3.2 billion financial guarantee for the project, whose developers plan to rent computing power from thousands of Google's...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Modder cools RTX 3060 with countertop ice machine, slashing gaming temps by up to 62%
Posted on Monday June 22, 2026
The experiment was inspired by MrYeester, another YouTuber who recently built a CPU cooling loop around a hacked ice maker that constantly replenished its ice.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
HDMI 2.2 doubles bandwidth to 96Gbps, enabling uncompressed 4K at 240Hz
Posted on Sunday June 21, 2026
HDMI 2.2 can carry uncompressed 4K video at up to 240Hz, something that currently requires Display Stream Compression (which as we've shown however, is not a big limitation). It can also reach 4K at 480Hz using 4:2:0 chroma subsampling, and handle uncompressed RGB 8K at 60Hz.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
A 35-year-old copyright rule could let Ultima's creator make a new game EA can't stop
Posted on Sunday June 21, 2026
Garriott says he has tried several times over the years to bring Ultima back with EA's help, but each effort stalled before anything concrete happened. "Every decade or so, I tried to work with EA on a revival of Ultima," Garriott told Inside Games' Brian Gaar. "They always seemed interested...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Cyberpunk's disastrous launch still haunts CD Projekt Red, but hopes The Witcher 4 can win players back
Posted on Sunday June 21, 2026
The Cyberpunk 2077 story is a familiar one. Following the disastrous launch in 2020, CDPR released numerous patches, eventually giving us the game we were expecting. The brilliant Phantom Liberty expansion briefly pushed Cyberpunk 2077 to an Overwhelmingly Positive rating on Steam, something unimaginable a few years earlier.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Scientists made espresso with sound instead of heat, and most drinkers couldn't tell the difference
Posted on Sunday June 21, 2026
Developed by engineers and food scientists at UNSW Sydney, this new method is called "ultrasonic espresso" and replaces heat with mechanical energy. It runs at room temperature, using sound waves to pull flavor from finely ground coffee, and reaches espresso-level intensity in under three minutes despite the cold-water start.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Yann LeCun says xAI is "kind of a failure" – and the whole AI industry might be headed for a reset
Posted on Saturday June 20, 2026
LeCun, who previously served as Meta's chief AI scientist, didn't mince words. "xAI is kind of a failure, frankly, because the founding team has" departed, he said, pointing to a steady stream of exits over the past year. Several co-founders have left the company since it launched, leaving open questions...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »