OpenAI CEO Sam Altman thinks the DRAM sitting inside personal computers would be better used in data centers. He made the comments on the Cheeky Pint podcast, hosted by Stripe co-founder John Collison, in an episode released on October 29. The two were discussing the memory supply chain when the topic turned to local inference, meaning running AI models on your own hardware instead of the cloud. Here's what Altman said, at roughly the 29-minute mark:

Sam Altman, OpenAI CEOA lot of people want local inference. And somehow, they assume that the problem is solved now. Because, we are going to have open-source models. We're going to be able to run them on our computers. And so we're not going to need all the stuff in the data center. But from a global allocation perspective, actually, it's quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer. And, being used 5% of the time. You want maximum utilization in the cloud if you're trying to deal with this very supply constrained environment. And somehow everyone's... many people's intuition is the opposite of that.

Digital Extremes, the game studio behind Warframe, has been working on its latest game, Soulframe—an open-world, co-op fantasy action RPG with a strong focus on melee combat—for a number of years, with ongoing invite-only alpha testing having been live since 2023. Although it looked like the game was preparing to launch in some capacity over a year ago, Digital Extremes has waited until November 9 to launch the full-scale open alpha test of Soulframe. This means that the game will no longer require an invitation to play.

Digital Extremes announced the Opem Preludes along with the reveal of the upcoming Verse of the Veilands update, which introduces rideable wolf companions, which players can raise from pups, alongside new weapons and pacts, bosses, and the Veilands, described as a new "environmental world progression system." Soulframe features crafting, weapon progression, story-driven quests, and highly customizable combat and skills.

A lot of information relating to Intel Nova Lake-S has emerged leading up to the official launch in early 2027, including official information from Intel detailing the Nova Lake architecture and a recent benchmark leak that promised significant single-thread performance improvements on a 28-core Nova Lake-S part. However, a recent leak out of @Haze2K1 on X, shared by VideoCardz, purports that the real-world performance improvements for Intel's Nova Lake desktop CPUs are in the double digit range.

While the leaker has been around for a while, there is no guarantee that this information is accurate, since the only cited source is "circulating chatter," however, the claim is that Intel's Nova Lake will outperform comparable last-generation Arrow Lake CPUs by 8-17% in raw single-thread performance, 15% in general-purpose workloads, and up to 20% in gaming. There is some nuance to these claims, with the 17% improvement figure exclusive to the higher-end CPUs that feature bLLC, while the 17% boost allegedly comes from the implementation of Intel's new Advanced Performance Extensions.

Blaze Entertainment is proud to announce that the Evercade Nexus, the newest retro gaming handheld console from Evercade, is now available on Amazon, Funstock, Best Buy and GameStop, as well as other Evercade retailers across Europe and the US. Evercade continues to champion physical cartridges as the medium to relive the classic gaming experience. Buyers will receive RARE's 64-bit classic titles BANJO-KAZOOIE and BANJO-TOOIE with the console.

Andrew Byatt, CEO Blaze Entertainment LtdThe Evercade Nexus has arrived, marking a huge moment for us and an exciting new chapter for Evercade. We've spent years building a platform that celebrates great games, and Nexus takes that vision further than ever before. To launch with legendary names like Banjo-Kazooie and DOOM, alongside hundreds of games available on physical cartridges, is a fantastic achievement for the team. Nexus brings together everything we believe in: great games, physical ownership and the joy of discovering something new. We can't wait for players to experience it, and there's plenty more to come."

Built around the community's expectations for precise control, tactile quality, and convenient charging, the EM3 gaming mouse combines a lightweight body weighing about 56 g, a PAW3315 sensor, and up to a 1000 Hz polling rate with carbon-fiber-reinforced materials, flexible connectivity, and a magnetic charging dock. These elements bring gaming performance, refined feel, and everyday convenience into a single product.

Precision Tracking and Customization
The gaming mouse is powered by the PAW3315 sensor, supporting up to 16000 DPI for precise, consistent tracking. Polling rates of up to 1000 Hz are available in both wired and 2.4 GHz wireless modes, with four selectable levels available through the driver, giving the EM3 the responsiveness expected from a performance-focused gaming mouse. Further customization is available through the web-based Epomaker Hub and Epomaker Driver 3.0, where users can adjust functions including the Fire Key, button debounce, motion correction, and button response. For quick sensitivity changes, the physical DPI button also provides six DPI levels without the need to open the software.

While the PS5 Linux project appears to be moving ahead despite the original creator's departure, an enterprising group of developers has adapted that project and Bazzite to turn the PlayStation 5 into something approximating a Steam Machine. Being that it is built on the same foundations as the PS5 Linux loader, the same limitations apply, meaning that it will only work on jailbroken PlayStation 5 consoles running on firmware versions 3.00-13.60, and there are other compatibility limitations documented in the installation guide on GitHub.

The particular variant of Bazzite being used is Bazzite-deck, which was originally built as an alternative to SteamOS for other x86 gaming handhelds, like the Lenovo Legion Go and ASUS ROG Ally, so by default it boots into Steam Gaming Mode on the PS5. It also offers an optional desktop mode running a full installation of KDE Plasma, which would conceivably allow the PS5 to work as a desktop workstation, as well. Between the desktop mode and Bazzite's handheld gaming mode, consoles running this software mod would have access not only to Steam games but to other game libraries, like GOG and Epic Games.

ATK, the brand behind several affordable high-performance gaming peripherals, has just announced the new RS8 series gaming keyboards in both mechanical and Hall effect flavors. The RS8 Air is a $99.98 Hall effect keyboard that will launch with a discount bringing the price down to $74.89, while the RS8 Neo is a more traditional mechanical keyboard that will have a starting MSRP of $84.98 but will launch at $59.98. Both keyboards have the same TKL layout, which is often considered as striking a good balance between productivity and gaming use cases, and both keyboards will also feature CNC-machined aluminium, gasket-mounted cases and translucent, frosted polycarbonate keycaps for the RGB backlighting to shine through.

Being a Hall effect keyboard, the RS8 Air will feature 8 kHz polling in addition to typical HE features, like adjustable actuation, rapid trigger, SOCD, and DKS in addition to the classic key remapping and RGB customization. All of this will happen in ATK's Hub 3.0 software. It also has a hardware switch on the back of the keyboard for on-the-go profile switching without having to remember a keyboard combination or open the software. The RS8 Air will have an aluminium switch plate for a firm feel and accurate actuation detection, and it will have five layers of internal sound treatment to cut out reverberation and echoes that can be common in aluminium keyboards. The RS8 Air will be available in white or black with Lucid Blade or Ice Blade switches or in pink or Lake Green with Ice Blade switches for an extra $10.

Not too long ago, the developers behind OpenMouse, the open-source, community-driven alternative mouse configuration suite, revealed that they were working on supporting keyboard customization alongside the myriad gaming mouse models the suite now supports. As per a recent announcement on the project's Discord server, the latest OpenMouse beta release has added support for a number of gaming keyboards from Logitech, Razer, SteelSeries, and Wooting. Initial support also appears to be in development for Wuque Studio and the Kochi Hummingbird 68.

So far, actual feature support also appears to be limited, and the implementation is very much still in beta, with the app connecting correctly to a Wooting 80HE in a brief test but failing to load the proper keymap and failing to adjust the settings correctly. However, the planned feature set appears to be competitive with most proprietary keyboard customization tools, with HE features like adjustable actuation, rapid trigger, toggle key, mod tap, SOCD, and DKS, all present in addition to robust RGB customization and support for layers and profiles. What is notably absent is the ability to remap keys, however.

Hitscan has announced an update to its Hyperlight wireless gaming mouse from 2024, both reducing the weight of the symmetrical mouse and updating its internals in the name of faster clicks and lower response times. The Hitscan Hyperlight X will use the same shape as the original Hyperlight, but the Hyperlight X will allegedly weigh in at 35-37 g, depending on whether you're using full-size or dot skates. While Hitscan itself hasn't shared all that much about the new mouse, aside from its October 28 launch date, @jakeufps on X shared some information about the new hardware.

[Editor's note: Our in-depth review of the original Hitscan Hyperlight is live]

While the Hyperlight X will allegedly have the same shape, it will feature new SPDT switches—nominally closed mechanical switches that send a click when the circuit is opened, effectively reducing the actuation distance and click latency substantially. The Hyperlight X will also launch with the PixArt PAW 3950 sensor, an update from the prior 3395, and a Nordic nRF54L15 MCU. It will also ship with an 8K receiver, enabling 8 kHz polling from the factory instead of requiring an additional accessory purchase.
Update Oct 29th: Hitscan has updated the product page of the Hitscan X with official $109.99 pricing and a proper spec sheet.

Microsoft's gaming business shrank again in the first quarter of its 2027 fiscal year, which ended on September 30. Xbox revenue came in at $5.38 billion, down 2% from $5.51 billion a year ago, while Microsoft as a whole grew revenue by 19% to $92.3 billion. Content and services revenue fell 2%, and hardware dropped a bigger 14% on a lower volume of consoles sold. CFO Amy Hood said the overall Xbox decline was driven by third-party content and Xbox Game Pass, partly offset by growth in first-party games.

Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma, however, put a positive spin on the numbers in a post on X. She pointed out that the 2% decline is much smaller than the 10% drop a quarter earlier, and that margins improved. She also listed record results for Minecraft and World of Warcraft Forever, called Modern Warfare 4 Call of Duty's most acclaimed release in over a decade, and said PC platform revenue grew by double digits. As for hardware, Sharma claims console sales are being held back by supply, with demand currently outpacing the number of consoles available. She added that Xbox is working to get more units out to players, partly through an expanded refurbishment program.

Pulsar seems to be on a bit of a run in 2026, having already shown off a new X5 ergo gaming mouse and launched a new X2F CrazyLight fingertip mouse, but its latest announcement isn't an actual product launch, but rather a peek at what's to come for the brand. According to a new mini-documentary Pulsar published on its YouTube channel, it is working on a gaming mouse platform that would allow for dual sensors.

In the mini-doc, Pulsar explains that "innovation at the mechanical level has reached a realm where humans can no longer keep up," likely referring to the ever-increasing DPI and polling rate increases that we have seen gaming mouse companies brag about. As such, it is developing the dual-sensor system to allow users to better tailor their mouse inputs to their individual needs and movement patterns. The system basically combines sensor data from both sensors and calculates movement based on a pre-determined offset that can be set in software by a user. This theoretically allows the sensor to be placed anywhere on the bottom of the mouse.

Keychron's ongoing efforts to update its keyboard line-up with new models has produced the Q19 HE 8K as its latest special colorway of the 60% Hall effect PCB first introduced with the Q16 HE 8K and recently made another appearance in the Carbon 60 HE. The Q19 HE uses the exact same Keychron Ultra-Fast Magnetic Lime switches as the Carbon 60 HE and the Q16 HE 8K, but it opts for a CNC-machined 6063 aluminium tray-mount case with steampunk embellishments.

Both the patina on the aluminium case and the keycaps bear the steampunk design, with dye-sublimated keycap legends featuring a serif font and a compass accent key on the escape key. The bottom of the keyboard also has an etched Golden Compass pattern. The keycaps follow a more traditional Cherry profile, instead of Keychron's usual KSA or OSA, and they are made from PBT. The Q19 HE 8K has an FR4 switch plate and plate-mounted stabilizers. It is currently available on Keychron's online store for $254.99.

GravaStar, the design-driven gaming hardware brand known for its sci-fi aesthetic, today announced the Mercury Edge Series. Led by Mercury Edge Pro, the lineup pairs GravaStar's distinctive design language with 53 mm dynamic drivers and spatial gaming audio. Mercury Edge adds versatile wireless connectivity and extended battery life, while Mercury Edge Lite offers a direct, battery-free USB-C experience.

Sculpted Design with a Distinct Gaming Identity
Inspired by skeletal architecture, the series combines flowing contours, polished transitions and layered earcup geometry with seven-color RGB lighting. Memory foam cushions, 90-degree rotating earcups and a sliding headband provide an adaptable over-ear fit.

Corsair, a leading global developer and manufacturer of high-performance gear and technology for gamers, content creators, and PC enthusiasts, announced today that a fresh cache of Raider-grade gear has surfaced with the Corsair x ARC Raiders collection. Created in a multi-year partnership with Embark Studios, the collection marks the first anniversary of ARC Raiders, the breakout extraction adventure named Best Multiplayer Game at The Game Awards 2025, with a limited run of officially licensed controllers, gaming peripherals, and streaming gear across Corsair, SCUF, and Elgato. Every piece wears the game's signature four-stripe colorway, and every purchase unlocks exclusive in-game items to carry back into the field.

"ARC Raiders pulled players into a world where every trip topside is a gamble and every extraction is earned," said Tobias Brinkmann, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Gaming Peripherals at Corsair. "That spirit runs through this collection. Working with Embark Studios, we brought together the best of Corsair, SCUF, and Elgato, so Raiders have gear that performs under pressure and looks like it was scavenged from the Rust Belt. We couldn't think of a better way to celebrate the game's first year than by giving its community something built for the next one."

It seems as though the mouse modding scene has been on a winning streak lately, with brands like Keychron publishing a catalogue of free 3D models of its mouse shells, and projects like Openmouse providing brand-agnostic, open-source mouse customization and remapping. The latest eye-catching project comes from a small 3D printing outfit called Unskilled Design, who recently introduced Mausstudio. Mausstudio is a work-in-progress custom mouse design tool that helps users design custom mouse shells for 3D printing.

As described in a recent demo on X, Mausstudio allows users to import an STL of an existing mouse PCB, define the positions of core features, like screw holes, switches, the scroll wheel, and sensor position, and then generate a shell around it using custom parameters. Currently, it supports custom dimensions for the basics, like width, length, and height, as well as more niche customizations, like left-handed side button placements, base structure (lightweight or solid), hump position, honeycomb cutouts for lightweight shells, and battery positioning.

GOG, formerly Good old Games, which CD Projekt Red recently sold to the platform's original co-founder, has stuck to its convictions on DRM-free game publishing, with its latest release, Control Resonant, coming to the platform with no DRM and with the typical downloadable game files that GOG provides. The game also features native cloud saves on GOG Galaxy. The DRM-free launch of Control Resonant comes just over a month after the game's initial launch on Steam, and both the standard version of Control Resonant and the Deluxe Edition are available on GOG. Other versions of Control Resonant on PC use standard Steam DRM.

[Editor's note: Our handheld performance review and in-depth review of Control Resonant are now live]

GPD is no stranger to powerful gaming handhelds, having previously launched the very expensive GPD Win Max 3 in August 2026, and the company has recently confirmed via a Weibo post that it is working on an Intel Arc G3 Extreme-powered version of its Win Mini gaming handheld.

Prior versions of the GPD Win Mini were available with up to the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 with its Radeon 890M iGPU, which put the system more or less on the same level as other popular handhelds, like the Lenovo Legion Go 2, while a Win Mini Ultra with the Intel Arc G3 Extreme CPU could perform significantly faster—about as well as an entry-level dGPU, thanks to the onboard Intel Arc B390 iGPU with 12 full Xe3 cores.

No Man's Sky had a rough start to life, with Hello Games having had to put in nearly a decade's worth of work to right the ship and get the game to "Very Positive" reviews on Steam. Now, following a handful of significant gameplay and content updates since that success, Hello Games has announced the Forsaken update, a new content update to No Man's Sky that builds on the game's exploration, building, and research mechanics.

The Forsaken update, officially version 7.10 of the game, adds a minimal HUD mode for a more immersive experience, minimizing the compass, hazard protection bars, and mission notifications. Hello Games says this mode is especially suited for experienced players. On the gameplay and content side of things, however, the update also introduces "Haunting Mementos," a new set piece that sees gamers searching the abandoned wrecks, infested outposts, and derelict freighters in deep space for "bizarre, horrifying biological samples."

Pocketpair has been involved in a protracted legal battle with Nintendo following the launch of the hyper-popular creature collector, Palworld, and it seems as though Nintendo is on the back foot for the time being, with an October 2025 decision by the Japanese Patent Office denying Nintendo's application for a patent on creature capture mechanics. Still, despite the ongoing legal battle between the two gaming companies, Pocketpair's CEO, Takuro Mizobe, has commented in a recent interview with VGC that a Nintendo Switch 2 port may be on the cards, as long as Nintendo is willing to come to the table and as long as those conversations are possible.

Takuro MizobeFirst of all, I should say that we think the Switch 2 is a really amazing platform, not just for games globally, but especially here in Japan and for the Japanese games industry. It's been an incredible platform. If there's ever a future where we have the opportunity to discuss or consider bringing Palworld to the Switch platform in some way, then we'd love to have those conversations.

Aside from the GTA VI hype, Rockstar has been in the news quite frequently of late, relating to a new union forming at its UK offices. That union, which started taking shape in early 2026 following what it called unfair firings, has now officially started coming to fruition, as recognition of the IWGB Rockstar Game Workers Union will officially be put to an employee vote from November 12 to 26, according to a new announcement by the union on Bluesky.

According to the union's social media page, the vote seeks to officially ratify the recognition deal agreed to by management and workers across union meetings that have taken place over the last few months, and it would "give workers a say over issues including pay and bonuses, overtime, redundancies, flexible working arrangements, and generative AI policies." The union vote will coincide with the launch of Grand Theft Auto VI, which appears to have been a deliberate publicity move by the union, and it will take place via an anonymous online vote.

Auroch Digital, the studio behind Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun and Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! recently posted an announcement to its LinkedIn page, breaking the news that it would be laying off as much as 25% of its workforce due to "market conditions." However, shortly after the studio announced the layoffs, as covered by GameIndustry, the announcement post disappeared. The original post read:

Auroch Digital via GameIndustryOver the past year our colleagues have delivered amazing games like Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 and Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! to wonderful reception from our players. Despite that creative success, the same market conditions that have challenged so many of our fellow developers have now also affected us. Consequently, we have made the decision to restructure the studio to work through a turbulent and uncertain time in our industry.

Cyberpunk 2 has already been confirmed as being in development by CD Projekt Red, but not all that much has been revealed about the game aside from its massive budget and a potential 2030 launch date. Now, a new job posting by CD Projekt Red, as spotted by CheatHappens, has potentially confirmed recent rumors that multiplayer support is being worked on for Cyberpunk 2. This comes after Cyberpunk 2077 was originally meant to have multiplayer support, but that was cancelled ahead of release.

The job listing is for a lead quest programmer "to join the team working on Cyberpunk 2" and specifically mentions "understanding of multiplayer network architecture and client-server synchronization for game state/quests" in the "nice to have" section. This suggests that, while multiplayer is almost certainly on the cards for Cyberpunk 2, the game will still likely be built with the single-player, narrative-driven gameplay first and foremost—perhaps something similar to the older Borderlands games, whose campaigns can be played in multiplayer or single-player, all within the same playthrough.

ASUS today announced the TUF Gaming Radeon RX 9070 XT Onimusha Special Edition graphics card, arriving alongside Onimusha: Way of the Sword, which releases on September 4, 2026. More than a performance powerhouse, this card is a collectible piece of artistry—bundled with the game, slashing onto the scene, and ready for action.

A masterpiece of dark artistry
The TUF Gaming Radeon RX 9070 XT Onimusha Special Edition pays visual tribute to the world of Onimusha: Way of the Sword. A dark fantasy set in Edo-period Kyoto, the game invites players to explore the historic Japanese capital on the edge of a blade, battling underworld monstrosities with shadow and steel.

Valve has been a major contributor to the Linux gaming scene since it launched the Arch-based SteamOS alongside the Steam Deck, and the company's latest contribution to the Linux gaming ecosystem comes by way of a series of patches by Vicki Pfau, a developer working on hardware support on behalf of Valve Software. In the patch notes, Pfau notes that the preliminary driver supports "general input for the Joy-Con 2, Pro Controller 2, and GameCube NSO controllers," including Bluetooth for all controllers and USB mode for the Pro Controller. The Linux kernel version 7.4 is slated to land in a fully stable form in January 2027.

Crucially, the Nintendo Switch 2 controllers were already largely supported on Linux via Steam, but kernel support means the controller won't need to run via Steam Input and can work in other game launchers without Steam being open. In addition to the Nintendo Switch 2 controllers, Linux 7.4 should bring hardware enablement and several features for a host of other peripherals, both gaming and otherwise, including additional sensor support for new AMD SoCs, better trackpad handling on T2 Macs, a new HID driver for Pulsar gaming mice—with support for reading the battery level, voltage, and charging status over both wired and wireless connection modes. On the topic of mice, the Kysona M600V2 also gets an HID driver. There are also new fixes incoming for the ASUS ROG Ally power management, and support was improved for the Lenovo Legion Go S controllers and lighting.

It was recently reported that Ghost of Yōtei managed to earn over $400 million in revenue in its launch year, coming in just 3% behind Ghost of Tsushima in terms of launch-aligned revenue. Despite this success, however, Ghost of Yōtei's developer, Sucker Punch, has just reportedly suffered a wave of layoffs, according to a recent report by Aftermath, who published an internal email shared with the publication by an employee at the studio. The layoffs at Sucker Punch will result in 26 employees losing their jobs.

After carefully observing the challenges in the market and reviewing the team needs for our next project, we've decided to make some staffing reductions. Several positions across Sucker Punch will be eliminated as a result. We know this is a lot to take in, and we want to assure you that we did not make this decision lightly. We have given this a lot of attention and worked to support our affected colleagues during this transition as well as we can. … There's no getting around that this is a hard day. Next week we will go into more details about the future.