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IO Interactive's art director explains why the 007 First Light PS5 controller avoids the iconic gun barrel logo, instead drawing inspiration from the game's UI and a 'sun' theme of light and shadow.
Discover the best Star Wars games with detailed Q&A covering TIE Fighter, Episode 1 Racer, Imperial perspectives, upcoming titles, and genre diversity.
Q&A about Magic's Marvel Super Heroes expansion: concerns after Spider-Man disappointment and limited preview at MagicCon.
Loungefly's new Star Wars bag collection features Grogu, Darth Maul, Leia, and more. Includes backpacks, crossbody bags, and charms—available now for Star Wars Day.
Ultimate Grogu by Hasbro is a life-size, animatronic collectible with 250+ movements, releasing April 1, 2027, for $600. This Q&A covers its features, origin, and where to preorder.
Lego and Sega release a buildable Genesis/Mega Drive set on June 1st, $39.99, 479 pieces, includes cartridge and controllers, with stickers for two console variants.
The Resident Evil reboot borrows creature designs from RE6 and RE4, despite RE6's poor reception. Production designer explains how they cherry-picked visual elements for the film.
SNK reveals Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves DLC for May: Mr. Karate with Robert Garcia under the mask, plus Kenshiro. New twist on classic character.
The ASUS ROG Raikiri II, a $160 premium gaming controller for PC and Xbox, is set to gain mainline Linux support, expanding its appeal to open-source gamers.
AMD released open-source Linux kernel patches for HDMI Fixed Rate Link (FRL) support in their AMDGPU driver, enabling higher bandwidth for HD/4K/8K displays, though full HDMI 2.1 features like DSC are still missing.
EndeavourOS Triton ISO refresh adds COSMIC, Hyprland, Budgie, LXQt desktops, updates Titan Neo installer, inherits Linux 7.0 kernel with new GPU support and security improvements.
Wine 11.8 enhances VBScript support, fixes Microsoft Golf 1999, and improves stability, setting the stage for Wine 12.0 stable due early 2027.
Linux gaming on Steam pulled back to ~4.8% in April after a record 5.33% in March, but the long-term trend remains positive due to Steam Deck and Proton. Analysis reveals a healthy correction, not a decline.
KDE Plasma 6.6.5 addresses NVIDIA performance bugs, while Plasma 6.7 previews new features like redesigned System Monitor, Wayland improvements, and refined settings pages.
NVIDIA releases Vulkan beta drivers 595.44.06 (Linux) and 595.46 (Windows) with performance optimizations and descriptor heap fixes, boosting developer testing and feedback.
VideoLAN has released dav2d, an open-source decoder for the draft AV2 video codec, based on their successful dav1d project. The decoder targets high performance and aims to accelerate AV2 adoption.
AMD updates GAIA open-source AI framework with a superior default model and performance improvements, enabling local AI agents on CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs.
After a two-year audio regression in mainline Linux, kernel 7.1 finally patches the AMD ASoC driver for the Steam Deck OLED, eliminating the need for downstream workarounds.
Explore VK.com's advanced CDN architecture, dynamic signatures, and a high-concurrency pipeline for lossless video extraction—a developer's guide.
Explore the technical backend of a VK Video Downloader: HLS fragmentation, dynamic tokens, AES-128 encryption, regex extraction of metadata, and a worker-queue system for manifest parsing, parallel fetching, and FFmpeg merging.