The end of 2025 has been a busy time for gaming, with massive game launches, like Arc Raiders, Battlefield 6, and Hollow Knight: Silksong taking much of the spotlight, however, some sales charts, like those provided by Alinea Insight, seem to tell a different story. According to the report, ARC Raiders, from Embark Studios, has once again taken the top spot for sales in the prior week. The new extraction shooter has apparently surpassed 4 million sales on Steam and is rapidly approaching 7 million sales across all platforms. The runner-up in the week leading up to the report was co-op indie platformer, PEAK, which is estimated by the analyst to have sold 316,000 copies in the week between November 16 and 23 alone, bringing it up to nearly 15 million copies sold since launch.

The other top-sellers on Steam for the same week were similarly unexpected, including RV There Yet? at 312,000 copies, the Risk of Rain 2 Alloyed Collective DLC, with 216,000 copies sold for the week, and Dispatch, another indie hit, with 214,000 copies sold during the same period. The success of RV There Yet? and PEAK are attributed to the mandatory co-op mechanics, although price is likely an important metric to consider as well. It's worth noting that these statistics are mostly based on Steam sales data and daily active user information, which not all games share equally. It also doesn't take into account the wealth of console gamers whose purchases basically cannot be tracked by third parties.

Grab a friend and climb toward the clouds - PEAK is now available on GeForce NOW, enabling members to try the hugely popular indie hit on virtually any device. It's one of four new games joining the cloud this week. Plus, members can look forward to Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 coming soon.

Time to Climb
PEAK is a co-op climbing game that puts players in the shoes of lost nature scouts, ascending a mountain at the center of a mysterious island. Scavenge for food (even if it's of questionable quality), manage injuries on the climb and help the squad summit safely. Members can play solo or survive together with up to four players. There's a new island to survive on every day. And, with more than 100,000 concurrent players daily on Steam, there's always a climbing buddy to join. GeForce NOW members are equipped for the challenge with an Ultimate membership, which powers the climb at up to 4K resolution and 120 frames per second. Ultimate members can play PEAK and more than 2,000 other games they already own with extended session lengths and ultralow latency on a GeForce RTX 4080 rig. Upgrade today for elevated gameplay.

No, that isn't a major typo on this article's headline. According to print magazine c't, who conducted a test bench consisting of two pieces each of OCZ's TR150, Crucial's BX 200, Samsung's 750 Evo, Samsung's 850 Pro, SanDisk's Extreme Pro and SanDisk's Ultra II, the last SSD to actually give out the last breath was Samsung's 256 GB 850 Pro, with a staggering 9100 TB (that's 9.1 Petabytes) written. This is well beyond Samsung's suggested longevity for this particular SSD, which stands at 150 TBW.

The first particular model to give out was one of Crucial's BX 200, at 187 TBW (still more than twice over the manufacturer's 80 TBW). The second model to fail was the second Crucial BX 200, at 280 TBW. The remaining SSDs apparently died after a power peak (unclear whether a surge or a spike), save for the Pro models, in the form of SanDisk's Extreme Pro and Samsung's 850 Pro (it seems those Pro-oriented features do serve some purpose, eh?.) One of these SanDisk Extreme Pro models lasted for about 2,200 TBW, the same amount of writes the first Samsung 850 Pro model endured. However, the second Samsung 850 Pro broke through all records with its total 9,100 TB written. Naturally, these are interesting and impressive overall results, but they can't really be counted upon as being statistically significant; two models each aren't enough to achieve a representation of the tested SSD models' endurance. However, this also probably means that save a defect on your SSD's manufacturing, you can count on it for a considerable amount of writes.

This is the first product that combines both an SD-sized adaptor for Micro SD memory card and an SD cards that can morph into USB connector. Slide off the end of the Peak Micro SD Trio and you've got one of those slim connectors that fit inside a standard USB port. With the cap back in place, the card's ready for any SD slot, or you can pull out the Micro SD card that fits within and use in an appropriately sized reader.
The Trio is available in a choice of 1GB for 18$ and 2GB for 30$.