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Samsung's upcoming 8nm process may help Nintendo make a more power-efficient, lower-cost chip for a rumored Switch 2 Lite, but neither the console nor Nintendo's plans are confirmed. 🎮🔋 Read more: https://tweak.town/yVN8RQg

Kingbull's Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale runs November 2 to December 6, with e-bike discounts up to $650 and two-bike bundle savings up to $200. 🚲💸 #ad Read more: https://tweak.town/Mfg53BM

Reported layoffs and management's push to use generative AI have sharply eroded morale at Electronic Arts, with workers saying job cuts are disrupting game development. 🎮🤖 Read more: https://tweak.town/zAyaBKL

Blizzard is rebalancing WoW Forever's racial abilities before its November 4 launch, including limiting Skyborne's Read Leyline so it cannot be used while Innervate is active. ⚖️🎮 Read more: https://tweak.town/d5RhPy1

A report points to the original Silent Hill remake arriving in 2027, with Gabrielle Fritz and Jade Matthew reportedly cast in roles that have not yet been disclosed. 🎮👻 Read more: https://tweak.town/bZIP0H7

Sucker Punch, the PlayStation studio behind Ghost of Tsushima and Ghost of Yotei, has laid off 24 employees as it adjusts staffing for its next project. 🎮📰 Read more: https://tweak.town/2lKDNzA

Warhorse Studios says hackers accessed its systems and data, but the Kingdom Come: Deliverance developer has not confirmed what was taken or whether anything has leaked as it investigates the breach. 🔒🎮 Read more: https://tweak.town/hm2CvVb

Sony's $50,000 bounty for a PS5 exploit has angered homebrew fans, who say reporting the flaw could shut down plans to run Linux on the console while keeping access to GTA 6. 🎮💻 Read more: https://tweak.town/nuvEMiS

GameSir's G7 Pro 8K brings up to 8,000Hz polling to a sub-$90 PC controller, though testing found little difference between its fastest polling modes and battery life falls to about six hours at 8,000Hz. 🎮⚡ Read more: https://tweak.town/krv2sWz

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced has received its final major content update, adding New Game+, a punishing Nightmare difficulty and classic takedown animations. 🏴‍☠️🎮 Read more: https://tweak.town/kf41QVD

Apple's 14-inch M6 MacBook Pro starts at $1,999, with the company claiming graphics gains of up to 30% over the M5 model; the design and most ports remain unchanged. 💻📊 Read more: https://tweak.town/ckPAvYx

Mass Effect fans have taken their campaign to save the series to Times @Square, with their petition now surpassing 250,000 signatures. 🎮🪧 Read more: https://tweak.town/BuBGZHW

Instagram is preparing to bring back long-form video, allowing uploads of up to 90 minutes as Meta seeks to attract established creators and challenge YouTube's dominance. 📱🎥 Read more: https://tweak.town/zBKbnOM

TSMC is reportedly considering a 10% to 20% CoWoS price increase as AI chips, server CPUs and custom processors compete for limited packaging capacity, though the company has not confirmed the move. 🧠🏭 Read more: https://tweak.town/KALSidn

XPG's new CORE REACTOR III power supplies monitor the 12V-2x6 connector and shut off power if overcurrent is detected, helping protect graphics-card connections from overheating. Models range from 750W to 1,000W. ⚡🛡️ Read more: https://tweak.town/1h8vRcu

Independent iPhone Duo durability tests are producing mixed results: CNET's machine has exceeded 60,000 folds, while one hand-folded unit developed a white line near 75,000. 📱🔬 Read more: https://tweak.town/NNBF3BQ

Renowned sci-fi artist Nicolas "Sparth" Bouvier revealed he served as art director on BioWare's cancelled Mass Effect project, saying the team's work will never be seen. 🎮🎨 Read more: https://tweak.town/ejBuNnl

A custom FPGA cartridge turns an original 1985 NES into an x86 desktop, enabling it to run Doom and load simplified web pages with help from a laptop proxy. 🎮💻 Read more: https://tweak.town/otLNQtl

Shipping records have revealed four Intel Raptor Lake Next desktop CPU part numbers, with reported clock speeds and cache sizes pointing to another LGA1700 refresh, potentially arriving in early 2027. 🖥️🔍 Read more: https://tweak.town/u4ihfDg

MSI's Vector 16 HX AI stands out as the lowest-priced RTX 5080 laptop we can find, listed at Newegg for $2,299 after a $300 discount. 💻🎮 Read more: https://tweak.town/ut4URUR

Epic CEO Tim Sweeney called Steam's AI disclosure policy "abhorrent," arguing the labels could fuel campaigns against developers, while Valve says they inform customers about AI-generated content in games. 🎮🤖 Read more: https://tweak.town/oh5odZa

NVIDIA's revised Vera Rubin specifications cut memory bandwidth by up to 26% on the HGX Rubin NVL8, while AMD's Helios now leads on published rack-level bandwidth. 🖥️📉 Read more: https://tweak.town/F6XsI4v

A teardown suggests the iPhone Duo's hinge may be damaging its inner screen, with a small component potentially pressing into the display; the suspected cause remains unconfirmed. 📱🔍 Read more: https://tweak.town/X5mDZbu

Seagate's 16TB Expansion Desktop hard drive is $399 at Newegg, a $150 discount that makes high-capacity storage much more affordable than using an SSD for archived files. 💾🖥️ Read more: https://tweak.town/vXMRkLm

Apple acknowledges that some iPhone Duo inner screens are cracking along the hinge within days of launch, while iFixit suspects the hinge may be pressing into the display. 📱🔧 Read more: https://tweak.town/eGP1PK9

Cooler Master's limited-edition Gold PC components are now available to order, with the MasterLiquid Atmos II Pro Gold cooler sold separately for $199.99, while the MasterFrame 400 Mesh Gold case is limited to prebuilt systems. 🖥️✨ Read more: https://tweak.town/nmifpry

Microsoft Security chief Hayete Gallot warns that AI agents are unpredictable and may have excessive access to enterprise systems, calling for real-time monitoring and tighter controls. 🛡️🤖 Read more: https://tweak.town/PbDReY0

A24's live-action Elden Ring film reportedly carries a $200 million budget, nearly the cost of a Marvel blockbuster and an unusually large investment for the studio. 🎬🎮 Read more: https://tweak.town/LAnF7cl

The FBI and Santa Ana police are investigating the theft of 6,451 PSA-graded collectibles from a FedEx truck, including 2,978 Pokémon cards, with the shipment valued at about $963,000. 🚔🃏 Read more: https://tweak.town/enlhB0W

ASUS's first discrete Intel Arc GPU, the workstation-focused UGen Arc Pro B70 32GB, has reached select European retailers at €1,799-nearly twice Intel's $949 launch MSRP. 🖥️💶 Read more: https://tweak.town/yZU5mhD

NVIDIA board partners reportedly can no longer order RTX 5090 chips or place backorders, adding weight to cancellation rumors that the company attributes to component shortages. 🎮📰 Read more: https://tweak.town/mSLzDbX

Microsoft's first firmware update for the RTX Spark-powered Surface Laptop Ultra targets extended reboots, screen flickering and unexpected restarts, with the rollout reaching devices in stages. 💻🔧 Read more: https://tweak.town/iRj1rBI

Unreal Engine 5.8 adds Microsoft Advanced Shader Delivery support, giving developers a tool to package precompiled shaders so players can bypass lengthy local shader compilation on supported PC storefronts. 🎮🛠️ Read more: https://tweak.town/Z2fhnoL

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma says Call of Duty has reached $40 billion in lifetime earnings, following the release of the Modern Warfare 4 remake. 🎮📊 Read more: https://tweak.town/2ZJlOsA

Microsoft is offering voluntary exit packages to about 60,000 employees across multiple divisions, including Xbox, as it adjusts its workforce. 🧑‍💼🎮 Read more: https://tweak.town/I1LbESl

Sony's rumored PS6 handheld could be the only portable with a custom AMD RDNA 5 chip, as reports suggest AMD's volume requirements may limit next-generation semi-custom silicon. 🎮🧩 Read more: https://tweak.town/e8aGkvQ

Vantex's V1 split mechanical keyboard places a 45 mm touchpad between its keys, combining typing and cursor control in one device; its Kickstarter wired model starts at $129. ⌨️🖱️ Read more: https://tweak.town/DvwyETr

ASUS has launched its compact ROG NUC 16 Phantom Blade Zero edition in China, pairing a Core Ultra 9 processor with graphics options up to an RTX 5080 Laptop GPU. 🎮🖥️ Read more: https://tweak.town/SBER4db

Canadian politician Avi Lewis is calling for federal support to let BioWare employees buy back the studio after EA's closure left about 400 people out of work. 🎮🇨🇦 Read more: https://tweak.town/875a9Gc

Razer's Viper V3 Pro wireless gaming mouse is now $99 on Amazon, down $60 from its original $159 price; it weighs just 59 grams. 🖱️🎮 Read more: https://tweak.town/6GzsLLk

Blizzard hinted that player housing may come to World of Warcraft Forever in the future, pointing to homes and manors spotted during the beta as possible groundwork for the feature. 🏠🎮 Read more: https://tweak.town/I9lWqlz

Half of Cyberpunk 2's quest team are former modders, with CD Projekt Red describing modding as a pathway into game development. 🎮🛠️ Read more: https://tweak.town/0v3cB9C

Corsair's Galleon 100 SD, combining a mechanical keyboard with an integrated Elgato Stream Deck, is now $299 at Amazon, a $50 reduction from its $349 price. ⌨️🎛️ Read more: https://tweak.town/nWaIk0s

Windows 11 now lets users move the taskbar to the top or sides, but auto-hide only works along the bottom, limiting the space-saving options on laptops. 🖥️⚙️ Read more: https://tweak.town/2nWv46T

A tethered Nintendo Switch 2 jailbreak has enabled homebrew and file access, while modders report extracting game assets and dumping files, though no complete game dump has been verified. 🎮🔓 Read more: https://tweak.town/O3KcUpC

A ReShade mod called FoveatedDLSS5 boosts DLSS 5 performance by rendering screen edges at lower resolution; in a Witcher 3 test at 7680 × 2160, frame rates rose from 49 to about 80 FPS. 🎮🖥️ Read more: https://tweak.town/WsmyeYO

ASUS urges WiFi 7 router owners to install a firmware update after a security flaw could let an unauthenticated attacker on a nearby network gain administrative access. 🔐📡 Read more: https://tweak.town/Zq9fII2

NVIDIA's RTX Path Tracing 1.9.0 delivers up to 20% better performance through optimizations, while adding Windows on Arm support for developers testing real-time path tracing. 🖥️⚙️ Read more: https://tweak.town/UMXLqdb

Turtle Beach's Stealth Ultra II controller combines a built-in touchscreen for app-free customization with 8,000Hz wired polling, bringing high-speed performance and on-device controls to Xbox and PC gaming. 🎮🖥️ Read more: https://tweak.town/g74gsP6

ASRock's 27-inch 1440p, 180Hz IPS monitor is $129 at Newegg, an $80 discount on a display with a 1ms response time and FreeSync support. 🖥️🎮 Read more: https://tweak.town/Im11P3e