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Konami has given an update on Silent Hill 2 remake sales figures, showing that the series is indeed back in the public eye in a big way.

Bloober Team's Silent Hill 2 remake is a big hit with over 2.5 million units sold, Konami has confirmed in a new video.

"The Silent Hill series has shipped over 10 million copies, and Silent Hill f's predecessor, Silent Hill 2, has shipped over 2.5 million copies," Konami writes in the update.

If you have a smartphone, you have received a scam text, and if your information has been shared around online, you probably get scam texts several times a week. While most people ignore these texts as they are obviously nefarious, they generate more than $1 billion per year.

It's an unfortunate thought to know that scammers are taking hard-earned money from everyday people that think they are paying for things such as US Postal Service fees, unpaid traffic violations, or a toll payment that is overdue. These are just some of the texts that US residents are receiving on a daily basis, and according to officials criminal organizations operating out of China are responsible for at least the toll and postage messages.

With just those two messages, the organized crime groups have generated more than $1 billion over the last three years, according to data provided by the Department of Homeland Security. Officials state that behind these text messages are criminal networks that are being connected to server farms, which then send a flurry of text messages to potential victims.

In a new Community Update post the Battlefield team has addressed player feedback regarding community servers being inundated with XP farms, which, for those who don't know, are servers dedicated to enabling players to farm as much XP as they possibly can in the shortest amount of time possible.

XP farming servers have been set up within the Battlefield 6 Portal feature as many players have felt like the amount of time it takes to get XP in the live multiplayer games is too long. Moreover, it's much easier to sit in a server with a bunch of bots and just mow them down to unlock new weapons and attachments, rather than play an actual multiplayer game.

The convenience of these custom XP farming servers is far too attractive for players, resulting in the maximum capacity on community servers being reached, and the majority of them being dedicated to XP farming.

Battlefield 6 developers have posted a lengthy Community Update detailing an incoming update addressing player concerns regarding progression.

The developers have taken to the Battlefield Comms X account, where they wrote that community feedback and concerns have been heard, and that some adjustments are coming to the progression system in Battlefield 6. For those who don't know, many BF6 players have been reporting the pace of the progression to unlock new gadgets, levels and weapon attachments is excruciatingly slow, resulting in players not feeling as rewarded as they can be for the time spent in-game.

To address this problem, developers are increasing the amount of XP gained from match completion and daily bonus by 10% and 40% respectively. In addition to that, the XP required to unlock the first twenty attachments is being reduced, meaning players can start using new attachments almost twice as fast. Furthermore, assignments that required career ranks 20, 23, and 26, will now require 10, 15, and 20, respectively.

Glen Schofield, a former director on three Call of Duty titles, has sat down for an interview where he was very candid about where the franchise has headed since his departure from it.

In an interview with VideoGamesChronicle, Schofield, who is named director on Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3, Advanced Warfare, and World War 2, along with a credited producer on other blockbuster titles such as Blood Omen 2: Legacy of Kain, Dead Space, The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, and From Russia With Love, said since he left the franchise, none of the Call of Duty games "have been very good".

Schofield pointed to examples such as Modern Warfare 3 being the last Call of Duty to win Action Game of the Year, and that his two previous Call of Duty titles were nominated for it. Adding, now Call of Duty games aren't even nominated for the category. The former director commented on Call of Duty moving away from a yearly release, saying that if the franchise did that, Activision would lose $1 billion a year, and that's why they haven't.

YouTube is updating the aesthetics of its video player, and it appears to have drawn significant inspiration from Apple's recent design change, which was recently rolled out to iOS devices.

In a new blog post, Google, the owner of YouTube, has announced a bunch of new changes coming to the video platform, most of which are intended to usher in a cleaner, more immersive viewing experience. The update includes an overhaul of the visual experience on mobile, web, and TV devices, which includes updated controls and icons. Google writes that these changes are to make the "viewing experience more visually satisfying while obscuring less content".

The announcement also states YouTube has made changes to the "Seek" feature, which is the ability to double-tap either side of the screen to fast-forward/rewind the video by several seconds. The improvement involves the skip feature being modernized and less intrusive to the viewing experience.

Apple's MacBook Pro with the M6 chip could pack an OLED display that's a touchscreen.

This is the latest assertion on the MacBook Pro M6 from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, one of the more reliable sources for Apple leaks - and it originates from the usual people who didn't want to be named.

You may recall that Apple has famously declared itself as dead-against the idea of touchscreen laptops in the past, broadly arguing that a touch-enabled display simply isn't necessary (and represents bad ergonomics, for starters).

TSMC has reported its best quarter in history, with its Q3 2025 earnings report driven by the unstoppable AI and HPC demand, which makes up around 57% of its sales.

TSMC posted $33.1 billion of revenue for Q3 2025, which is up an astounding 40.8% year-over-year, and 10.1% quarter-over-quarter, with a net income of $14.77 billion, which is up 39.1% year-on-year. TSMC's gross margin hit 59.5%, an excellent result for a foundry that is a contract chip maker for other companies and doesn't sell products itself.

The company has enjoyed its best quarter yet thanks to the unstoppable sales of AI accelerators and various AI infrastructure processors including CPUs, DPUs, and networking components. Q3 2025 saw the company also taking in revenue from Apple's latest A19, A19 Pro, and M5 processors made on its N3P process node.

Samsung has reached around 50% yield rate for its next-gen 1c DRAM for HBM4 according to new reports, intensifying its rivalry with SK hynix on next-gen HBM4 memory for AI GPUs.

In new reports EBN picked up by insider @Jukanlosreve on X, we're hearing that Samsung has made an even bigger gamble on DRAM, with 5 new High-NA EUV lithography machines from ASML purchased, two of the new High-NA EUV machines introduced to Samsung's semiconductor foundry division, with plans to also use 5 general EUV machines exclusively to its memory division.

The strategy from Samsung is to maximize production efficiency and expertise by building a dedicated memory production line, where it could be fabbing HBM4 far quicker, also preparing for HBM4E and next-gen HBM5 memory and beyond. A semiconductor industry official said: "Until now, foundries and memory have been using the EUV process together at the Pyeongtaek campus, but with the recent change in trend, five additional units will be brought in exclusively for memory use".

G.SKILL has announced that its team has pushed its DDR5 memory up to a MemTest stable 10,600 MT/s speeds, using the AMD Ryzen 5 8500G processor and based B850M motherboard from ASUS.

In a new post on X, G.SKILL announced its EXPO-rated DDR5-6000 CL26 48GB kit (2 x 24GB sticks) was used on an ASUS B850M AYW Gaming OC motherboard and AMD Ryzen 5 8500G processor, with the RAM overclocked to an insane 10,600 MT/s.

Interestingly, the ASUS B850M AYW Gaming OC motherboard is a mid-range motherboard that the company designed with overclocking in mind, but it's not in many markets yet. The test involved using standard cooling, no CPU configuration tweaks, and dual DIMMs... normally for overclocking records on RAM, the CPU core configuration is changed, LN2 cooling is used, and a single DIMM is deployed. Not for this new stable record.

Nintendo may be preparing to bring a collection of DS games to the Nintendo Switch 2, as a new patent has revealed how Nintendo can address the issue of dual-screen games being displayed on a single screen.

The Switch 2 has already become a major success for Nintendo, and if the company wants to retain its ever-growing userbase, it will need to continue to release a flurry of both Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive titles, along with Nintendo classics that have baked in nostalgic attraction, coupled with Switch 2 upgrades. With this in mind, what better Nintendo system to take advantage of than the DS?

However, there is a problem. DS games are built for a dual-screen system, meaning it's not as simple as porting over Game Boy or N64 titles, as developers will need to compensate for the Switch 2 having a singular screen. But, it seems a workaround has been discovered, with user MikeOdysseyYT taking to X to share a patent that shows a few of Nintendo's ideas on how it could get DS games to run on the Switch 2.

With Siri, Google, Alexa, and other voice-activated digital assistants, it's not exactly surprising to hear that Microsoft's Copilot is adding voice controls. However, Copilot Vision is something different, in that it's an AI-powered agent that can see what it is you're doing in Windows 11 and offer advice, assistance, guidance, tips, and more.

Microsoft believes that Copilot Vision is the next step in making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC. All you need to do is say "Hey Copilot" to engage with the AI agent and then use natural language to do everything from answer questions about something on-screen, analyzing documents to find something specific, or provide tips while you're playing a game.

In addition to being able to see what's on your screen, Copilot Vision will also have "full app context" for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, so it can review an entire document or deck without being limited to just what's on screen. Copilot Vision is a new opt-in feature, and surprisingly, it's now available "in all markets where Copilot is offered."

Earlier this month, Elon Musk took to his very own social media platform X to state that by the end of next year, his xAI game development studio will release the first "great AI-generated game." It's somewhat of a vague statement, but it refers to a new type of playable game that exists without a traditional game engine or human-created art, design, and other data.

Basically, AI will generate everything you see on-the-fly, from visuals to music, sound, and gameplay, based on player movement and the type of experience it will offer. We've already seen some early versions of this; however, they're prototypes and, like all AI-generated art, are trained and based on existing human-created works. Like this example of AI-generated Doom, and this example of AI-generated Minecraft.

Elon Musk is no stranger to making bold statements or predictions, and even though what constitutes "great" is subjective, Dead Space creator Glen Schofield (via PC Gamer) responded to Musk's statement that the first great AI-generated game will be here by the end of 2026 by saying, "He's full of crap. That's what I believe. I want to actually say that to him."

The United States Mint is going to honor Steve Jobs and Apple with a new $1 coin under the 2026 American Innovation $1 Coin Program.

According to the Mint, the new coin will feature a young Steve Jobs sitting in front of a rolling landscape that's covered in northern oak trees. The landscape is meant to represent the northern California hills, and is meant to capture Jobs' reflective pose, and how natural environments inspired his goal to design the technology he cultivated into being as natural as native environments.

The coin is inscribed with "Make Something Wonderful," which is a reference to what Jobs would use to write in internal Apple emails to employees about pursuing creativity, along with care in everything the company produced. Elana Hagler designed the aesthetic of the coin, and Phebe Hemphill sculpted it. These two artists are responsible for the blending of realism and symbolism.

The former boss of the Assassin's Creed franchise has revealed that he didn't leave his position voluntarily, he was asked to step down by Ubisoft.

Marc-Alexis Côté, the former boss of the Assassin's Creed franchise announced his departure from the company on October 15, only seven months after the release of series' latest installment Assassin's Creed Shadow. Ubisoft stated that it was "deeply grateful" for the contribution Marc-Alexis Côté had on the AC franchise, and was "saddened to see him go," resulting in many that read the announcement to believe that Marc-Alexis Côté chose to depart from his position, but really it was Ubisoft that made that request.

The massive DDR5-13000 memory frequency wall has been breached, with an overclocker using Corsair Vengeance DDR5 RAM pushed to 13,010 MT/s setting a new world record.

In a benchmark session from professional overclocker "SaltyCroissant" who used Corsair Vengeance DDR5 RAM on a GIGABYTE Z890 AORUS Tachyon ICE motherboard, overclocked it to over 13,000 MT/s... 13,010 MT/s to be precise, the first to hit that new peak frequency.

HWBot has the results, which were also verified by CPU-Z, with a DDR5 frequency of 6504.0MHz, with an effective data rate of 13,010 MT/s. We have been getting close to the 13,000 mark for a few months now, with lots of new incremental DDR5 overclocked frequencies broken, but now the mountain of 13,000+ has been reached.

ASUS has just revealed its new ASUS ProArt Display PA32KCX, the world's first 8K HDR Mini LED professional monitor, with 32 inches of 8K HDR through 4032-zone local dimming, 1200 nits peak brightness, and more.

The new ASUS ProArt Display PA32KCX professional monitor features an industry-leading Delta E<1 color difference and has a built-in motorized colorimeter to ensure professional-grade color accuracy, with the 8K 60FPS pumped through DisplayPort 2.1 and HDMI 2.1 ports, joined by dual Thunderbolt 4 ports for content creators.

The 8K HDR panel that ASUS uses on its PA32KCX offers 275 PPI, which is over double the pixels per inch (PPI) than a 32-inch 4K can display, and up to 3x the on-screen space compared to a similarly-sized 4K display. The increased pixel density and 8K resolution will offer unbelievable text clarity, as well as a massive injection of visual clarity that is perfect for anyone working with images (still images, videos, 4K HDR and 8K HDR video, etc).

Recently, we reviewed ASUS's new flagship and unique split-design ROG Falcata gaming keyboard. This premium keyboard is impressive in nearly every way imaginable, with a standout feature being its introduction of the new custom ROG HFX V2 Magnetic Switches, offering one of the best-feeling Hall Effect magnetic keyboards to date. And now, with the announcement of the latest, and more traditional-looking, ROG Azoth 96 HE gaming keyboard, these fantastic magnetic switches are set to return.

The ROG Azoth 96 HE is a magnetic keyboard, which means you've got complete control and can adjust the actuation point on every single key, alongside support for gaming features like Rapid Trigger and Speed Tap. The ROG HFX V2 Magnetic Switches are also hot-swappable, so you've got complete control over customization and replacing the switches down the road. Either way, the switches work alongside the custom ROG Hall sensor to deliver premium, accurate, and precise performance.

The 96 in the naming refers to the 96% layout, which means the ROG Azoth 96 HE includes things like a Numpad and system keys in a more compact layout. It's also wireless, featuring tri-mode connectivity that includes low-latency wireless, wired over USB, and Bluetooth, delivering 8K or 8,000 Hz polling via ROG SpeedNova 8K.

Razer has just updated its webcam offerings for gamers, streamers, and creators with the new Razer Kiyo V2 and Razer Kiyo V2 X. The big headline feature of the flagship Razer Kiyo V2 model, priced at $149.99 USD, is that it supports crisp and vibrant 4K video powered by an 8.3 MP Sony STARVIS Sensor; however, it is limited to 30FPS. For streamers, it also supports 1080p 60FPS.

Razer notes that the Kiyo V2 has been designed to offer "professional-grade image and video" in a webcam, with additional AI-powered optimizations and features via a partnership with Reincubate and its popular Camo Studio app. This includes AI-powered auto-framing, lighting correction, and backgrounds.

"With the Kiyo V2, we wanted to give creators the best of both worlds," said Addie Tan, Global Head of Lifestyle Division at Razer. "The original Kiyo Pro set a new standard for webcam image quality, but we knew creators needed more than just sharp visuals. That's why we built the Kiyo V2 with true 4K clarity and layered in intelligent AI optimizations, so streaming becomes easier, smarter, and truly stream-ready."

Razer recently debuted its 'Phantom Collection' of peripherals, which includes a keyboard, mouse, and headset, earlier this year. Inspired by the era of console gaming, where you could buy translucent Nintendo and Xbox hardware, Razer's first run of Phantom gear drew its retro inspiration from the latter, featuring translucent green hardware paired with vibrant Razer Chroma lighting.

This week, the company has announced that it is expanding its popular offerings with a new Phantom White collection, which it says presents a "sleek new translucent colorway in white that brings retro-futuristic vibes to modern gaming setups." Now, if you're a fan of the era where you could buy see-through gaming hardware, one look at the images will probably be enough to get you on board with the idea.

Razer is also expanding its Phantom offerings to include the Razer Kishi V3 mobile controller with a Phantom White Edition. It joins the new lineup of Razer gear that consists of the Razer Basilisk V3 Pro 35K mouse, Razer BlackWidow V4 75% keyboard, Razer Barracuda X Chroma headset, and Razer Firefly V2 Pro mouse mat. These are all available now in Phantom White Edition variants.