Data centers were some of the biggest losers in last night’s US midterm elections

On Tuesday, tens of millions of Americans voted in midterm elections to deliver a sweep of generational Democratic victories in federal and state races, reflecting a leftward electoral shift that’s being interpreted as a nationwide rejection of Trumpism. But even as Republican candidates and incumbents suffered defeats in what had traditionally been considered some of […]

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French game union accuses Microsoft of ‘sabotaging’ Blade and then using the fallout to justify closing Arkane

France’s Syndicat des Travailleureuses du Jeu Vidéo (STJV) union has accused Microsoft of sabotaging work on Marvel’s Blade and then using the inevitable results to justify Arkane’s closure. The union said development of Blade “is going fine,” and that the game is on par with Arkane’s previous body of work, which includes the Dishonored series, […]

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New Blood CEO would rather shut down the boomer shooter studio than sell out: ‘In 20 years, we’re done. I’m gonna say goodbye, shut it down’

New Blood Interactive has been around for more than a decade—it’s celebrating its 12 year anniversary, in fact—and is still going strong. Dusk, Gloomwood, Amid Evil, Fallen Aces, Ultrakill—it’s got an enviable catalogue that continues to grow. But CEO Dave Oshry is still imagining how it might end. By keeping the studio relatively small, letting […]

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‘How can prices fall when there’s nothing left?’ TeamGroup CEO reckons supply-demand memory equilibrium may not happen until late 2028 at the earliest

You may well be sick of reading about it—I am certainly sick to my stomach writing about it—but here’s another doom-filled prophecy about the continuing memory crisis. Doesn’t seem quite so funny calling it a RAMpocalypse now. The CEO of memory module maker TeamGroup, Chen Ching, is claiming we still haven’t seen the worst of […]

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I’m watching YouTube videos in glorious stereoscopic 3D on my Steam Frame with just a free plugin and a long-forgotten dream of a new Nintendo 3DS

Remember the 3D craze? The Nintendo 3DS, 3D TV, 3D cinema; it was a new, exciting technology that some expected would go mainstream one day. Then the dream just sorta died. People don’t talk about it much these days; except for this wonderful project that takes normal videos and turns them, alchemy-like, into slightly more […]

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