Microsoft’s Head of Gaming, Phil Spencer, recently commented about the desire Xbox and Bethesda Game Studios have for Starfield to be a hit similar to Skyrim during an interview at CCXP23 in Brazil. “Skyrim is such an amazing hit from Bethesda Game Studios, and talking to Todd Howard and the team, really what they wanted to do as people who

Source: Hot Hardware – Starfield Surpasses 12M Gamers But Can It Match Skyrim’s 12-Year Run? Xbox Boss Sounds Off

The threat of rising PC memory prices has been looming for several months now and, despite a recent surge in supply-side revenue, is still something to be on the lookout for as we head into 2024. That’s according to TrendForce and its recent investigations into the state of DRAM, which found a “significant leap in the DRAM industry” for the

Source: Hot Hardware – Memory Chip Makers Still Plan To Hike DRAM Prices After DDR5 And DDR4 Buying Spree

NVIDIA has reached a fairly impressive milestone with its RTX technologies—there are now over 500 games and applications that support RTX in some form or another. The achievement arrives five years after the introduction of the very first GeForce RTX graphics cards, the GeForce RTX 20 series based on Turing, which later extended into newer

Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA Celebrates 500 RTX Games With A 0 Gift Card Giveaway And More Sweet Prizes

In case it bears repeating, the end of the year is when retailers aggressively push out bargains and discounts, which by no coincidence lines up with the holiday shopping season. Did you miss out on Black Friday and Cyber Monday? No worries—Best Buy is hosting a “20 Days of Deals” event that runs through December 17, with each day serving

Source: Hot Hardware – Twenty Days Of Best Buy Deals: Elgato Stream Deck XL, PS5 And Xbox Games And More

Let’s talk about Grand Theft Auto for a bit, dear reader. Despite only having five mainline games in the series since breakout hit Grand Theft Auto III moved millions of PlayStation 2s in 2001, the “GTA” franchise has continued to be one of the most important in all of gaming. If you need evidence for that claim, look no further than the absolutely

Source: Hot Hardware – Rockstar’s GTA 6 Trailer Looms Near, What To Expect In This Month’s Big Reveal

Astronomers have found a key ingredient for life in the outer reaches of the Milky Way galaxy. The discovery challenges our understanding of the origins of the element and potentially extends the galactic habitable zone.

The element that was found in a very unexpected location by a group of astronomers from the University of Arizona is phosphorus,

Source: Hot Hardware – Scientists Discover A Key Ingredient For Life At The Edge Of Our Galaxy

Capcom announced on the the social media network formerly known as Twitter, and now called X, that its “Outfit 3” DLC for all 18 launch characters in Street Fighter 6 is now available. Unfortunately for Capcom, the announcement did not go over so well, resulting in players calling out the publisher for its “dreadful pricing.” One user called

Source: Hot Hardware – Street Fighter 6 Gamers Rage At Capcom For Awful Monetization Tactics

If you’ve acquired a new Apple product recently this shopping season, you’ll want to pay special attention to the latest critical update that has been released. While the plethora of new iPhone, iPad, and Mac buyers are enjoying their brand new devices, a potential danger lurks underneath. 

Apple has a new patch for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS

Source: Hot Hardware – Every iPhone, iPad And Mac User Needs To Grab This Urgent Security Update Right Now

AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution is available for use on any graphics card, and that includes FSR 3 frame generation. However, you can’t use FSR 3 at the same time as DLSS. Or can you? In AMD’s beta graphics drivers, you can enable a function called Fluid Motion Frames that essentially applies frame generation to almost any game. How do you

Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA And AMD And Frame Gen Tech Combine For Big Results In Game Benchmarks

Sycom has created a very unique RTX 4070 Ti featuring Noctua’s high-performance NFA12x25 120mm fans. It is one of the very few (if not the only) GeForce cards to be manufactured with Noctua fans. Noctua itself has Noctua-branded RTX 30 and 40 series cards (that are co-manufactured with Asus), but it doesn’t have an RTX 4070 Ti variant yet.

Source: Hot Hardware – This Quad-Slot GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Is Quietly Chilling Out With Noctua Fans

NVIDIA is aiming to lower the price of its GeForce RTX 3060 in China to 1,999 Yuan, roughly the equivalent of $280 in American USD, and these GPUs are set to last at least through the first quarter of 2024. That price would undercut even the cheapest GeForce RTX 3060 12GB by $10 in the US, if this price cut carries over from China. However,

Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3060 Is Sticking Around And Might Get A Price Cut To Boot

Remember when finding an Xbox Series X or PlayStation 5 console in stock from a first-party seller was trickier was like stumbling upon the Holy Grail? Well holey-moly, how times have changed. Graphics cards for PC gaming are plentiful again, and game console are not only routinely in stock, they’re also discounted with some sweet bundle offers.

Source: Hot Hardware – Xbox Series X With Diablo IV Bundle Is Just 9 And More Devilishly Good Gaming Deals

Apple and Paramount are toying with the idea of combining forces to combat subscriber loss. Both companies reported losing an estimated 7% of subscribers in the month of October, 2023.

The world of streaming platforms has become a hotly contested battlefield. With so many options for consumers to choose from, such as Apple TV+ and Netflix

Source: Hot Hardware – Apple May Team Up With Paramount On A Streaming Bundle As Subscriber Losses Mount

Amkor Technology, a semiconductor packaging provider, got Apple as its first and biggest customer for its advanced packaging facility being built in Peoria, Arizona. According to Amkor it’s the only company based in the United States that is capable of providing this advanced packaging technology, and this new facility in Arizona will be the

Source: Hot Hardware – Billion US Chip Packaging Company Scores Apple As Its First And Biggest Customer

After a surge in desktop and laptop shipments during the pandemic when working from home became the norm, it’s been a bit of a tough landscape for the PC industry as things settled down. However, a rebound is in sight. According to the fortune tellers at Canalys, “worldwide PC shipments are on the verge of a recovery” after seeing shipments

Source: Hot Hardware – PC Market Is On The Cusp Of A Big Rebound Thanks To AI And Santa Claus

Whether you are looking to upgrade your home theater for the holidays or find the perfect gift for someone, Amazon’s running deals that are hard to pass up. You can save up to 42% off the regular price on brands such as TCL, Amazon Fire, Hisense, and LG, netting you big savings on big TVs.

Leading us off today, we have the headliner Hisense

Source: Hot Hardware – TV Deals At Amazon Surge With Big Holiday Savings Up To 42%

Tesla’s highly anticipated Cybertruck made its retail debut by blowing the doors off a Porsche 911, and doing it while towing a Porsche. Elon Musk shared the video of the race about an hour after the first customer received their very own Cybertruck.

Tesla’s Cybertruck has seen its share of highs and lows throughout the process of its production.

Source: Hot Hardware – Watch Tesla’s Cybertruck Beat A Porsche 911 In A Drag Race…While Towing A Porsche

Turtle Beach is set to release the Stealth Ultra Wireless Smart Game Controller, a wireless controller that’s specifically designed for Xbox. That said, the controller will not be limited to Xbox—gamers playing on PC or Android based devices will also be able to use what Turtle Beach considers to be its top tier offering.

According to Turtle

Source: Hot Hardware – Turtle Beach’s Wireless Stealth Ultra Game Controller Aims To Defeat Stick Drift For Good

You don’t actually need to a spend a fortune on cables, whether it’s an Ethernet cord or an HDMI cable for your television or PC monitor. However, you are well-advised to be on the lookout for counterfeit products. Driving this point home, police officials in Taiwan recently seized thousands of counterfeit HDMI cables purportedly worth in

Source: Hot Hardware – Beware Of Counterfeit HDMI Cables As Authorities Seize .6M In Fake Knockoffs