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Intel will be cutting 15,000 jobs, or 15% of its workforce, by the end of the year. The chip company has announced it aims to save $10 billion in 2025 as it reports no profits whatsoever from the previous three months.
The Verge's Tom Warren has just shared in a paywalled report that Avowed, Obsidian's action roleplaying game, might be about to get delayed from Fall 2024 to early 2025.
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The Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon X Plus have made quite the statement ever since Qualcomm officially announced both chipsets in April this year. After all, the company finally has worthy competitors in the ARM notebook space that can take on Apple’s M-series, but there is still one obstacle that the San Diego firm has yet to scale that could become the ‘make or break’ factor for the company to cement its position in this market and that is pricing. During Qualcomm’s Q3 earnings call, CEO Christiano Amon announced that in 2025, customers can purchase Snapdragon X Plus and Snapdragon X Elite products for $700.
If there’s one sign we can take from the unprecedented number of layoffs across the games industry these past two years, it’s that we’re in the midst of an identity crisis. The industry isn’t in any danger of crashing, but publishers and studios are now being forced to adapt to the new market in ways they may never have had to before. The two major strategies seem to be falling back to the safety of established IP, and rolling the dice in the hopes of launching a successful live-service game. The latter has been attempted by just about every big player in the space, from EA to Xbox, but very few have managed to siphon off a big enough audience from the established titles to last any meaningful length of time.
There are two new retro handhelds on the market. Ayaneo, the company behind many, many handheld consoles for what seem like every gaming niche, revealed the Game Boy-inspired Ayaneo Pocket DMG and Pocket Micro on Wednesday, opening the door for more Android and game emulation options.
Google likely never intended the Tensor G4 to bring about a radical performance improvement over the Tensor G3, with rumors claiming back in 2023 that the SoC would be a minor upgrade. Now, it appears that this bit could end up being true, but it is not like the company is not making upgrades anywhere else, as the integrated Exynos 5400 5G modem that will be a part of the Pixel 9 family is said to deliver incredible power efficiency over the previous-generation baseband chip.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard made its big re-debut a few months ago, promising a fall 2024 launch without any specific release date. It seems we won't have to wait much longer before marking our calendars, as BioWare says a full release date reveal is coming in August.