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Nvidia Rubin will ‘soak up NAND supply like a sponge absorbs water’ says one analyst, thanks to the AI server’s new way of using SSDs

Any time there’s potentially positive news about storage and memory supply—such as increasing supply from China—I can’t help but think ‘sure, but the AI industry will guzzle through it regardless.’ Not only is demand seemingly insatiable, but sometimes new developments that encourage even more memory use come along. Case in point here with Nvidia Rubin. […]

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Steam Deck sales are estimated to have plummeted by around 80% since the massive price hikes earlier this year, back of the napkin maths suggests

The Steam Deck was once a budget champion, but no longer. Ever since the price hikes earlier this year, Valve’s handheld has become difficult to argue for as a value proposition—and according to recent sales estimates by Boiling Steam, it appears that consumers may agree. The site has attempted to estimate the number of Steam

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Blizzard’s calling time on Overwatch’s hero customising Stadium mode, and I may well be the only person that’s sad about that

Stadium isn’t a MOBA – don’t be fooled by that. There are no lanes or PvE enemies or anything of the kind. The MOBA link relates to abilities and equipment you buy for your character between rounds in order to power them up. That’s especially notable because you don’t do this anywhere else in Overwatch;

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Mortal Shell 2 sells out of physical Revered Edition PS5 pre-orders as players rush to buy the highly-anticipated game on disc

Making matters worse, the Revered Edition is exclusive to PS5. In fact, Sony’s platform is the only way to get a physical copy of Mortal Shell 2 at all, which is quite ironic given that it’s Sony who’s eager to get rid of discs entirely. “Demand for the PS5 physical Revered Edition of Mortal Shell

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Jagex wants classic British point-and-click MMO RuneScape to be bigger than World of Warcraft

Speaking to Chris Dring at The Game Business, Bellamy presented his desire for the company, while offering a “pragmatic” approach about how Jagex could get there. “The dream is we’re not the number two biggest MMO brand in the world, we’re the number one,” Bellamy said. “There’s a big ol’ gap between us and number

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Darkest Dungeon is getting its first dollop of DLC in several years, as the gloomy old RPG celebrates its 10th birthday

Darkest Dungeon: The Fire’s Edge is a newly revealed add-on that brings two new heroes to the game from Darkest Dungeon 2 – the Duelist and the Runaway. The former is “a complex damage dealer that dances between the party’s ranks” while alternating between aggressive and defensive combat stances, whereas the Runaway is “a position-flexible

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Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake might be re-revealed this year, a new report suggests

“A reveal later this year has been planned,” 100% Star Wars then revealed, reinforcing previous claims that development under Saber has been progressing well. “Development on the game has not only been ramping up, but it’s been going extremely smoothly over the past three years since Saber started from scratch. They’ve been hiring some extremely

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