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Polyarc Studios, maker of the acclaimed Moss series, shuts down after 11 years. Its collapse reveals the hollowed-out economics of VR gaming and the ripple damage from Meta's strategic retreat.
Games
all Games →The Moss Studio Dies Without a VR Market to Live In
Polyarc Studios, maker of the acclaimed Moss series, shuts down after 11 years. Its collapse reveals the hollowed-out economics of VR gaming and the ripple damage from Meta's strategic retreat.
FaZe Vegas Wins CDL Champs. The League It Won Barely Resembles the One That Started.
FaZe Vegas claimed the 2026 CDL Championship in Las Vegas, defeating OpTic Texas in the Grand Finals. But the bigger story is what the season revealed about franchise esports: roster churn, org instability, and a viewership base propped up by a shrinking number of teams.
House House's Big Walk Has No Enemies, No Death State, and a 92 on Metacritic
Big Walk, the new co-op walker-talker from Untitled Goose Game's House House, launched August 4 to critical acclaim — and it's a pointed rejection of how most multiplayer games are designed.
Hardware
all Hardware →Nintendo Built Two Versions of the Same Console — Brussels Made Them Do It
Nintendo's EU-only Switch 2 revision with a user-replaceable battery is a genuine right-to-repair win — and a case study in what regulatory fragmentation actually costs consumers.
Samsung's Memory Stack Goes Vertical: What zHBM, zNAND-O, and V10 BV-NAND Actually Mean
Samsung unveiled three wafer-bonded memory architectures at FMS 2026—zHBM, zNAND-O, and V10 BV-NAND. Here's what the specs say, what's real today, and what's still a concept.
When AI Siphons Memory: Google Pixel Hits $100 Wall as Data Centers Win the Supply Game
Google confirms $100 Pixel 11 price hike as AI data center demand drives RAM costs from $2.80 to $12 per GB. A structural reckoning for consumer hardware.
AI & Compute
all AI & Compute →Elden Ring Tarnished Edition Comes to Switch 2 on August 28 — Redemption Arc Included
Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition lands on Nintendo Switch 2 on August 28 with Shadow of the Erdtree bundled in. Here's what happened between the Gamescom disaster and launch day.
Google's Flash Tier Is Now a Price Weapon
Gemini 3.6 Flash launched with improved token efficiency and aggressive pricing — while Gemini 3.5 Pro sits delayed for the third time. The inference cost race is the real story.
Fewer Tokens, Lower Price, Ships Now: Google's New Inference Playbook
Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash launched with a 17% output token reduction and a price cut on outputs. It signals that the real AI model competition has moved from headline benchmarks to cost per task.