The Hot Take: What happens when you have a dual-opoly between 3 major chip makers.
It doesnât sound like Crimson Desert, the recently released prequel to Black Desert Online, will support Intel Arc GPUs anytime soon, if at all. On the gameâs FAQ page, its developer Pearl Abyss advised players expecting Arc support to apply for a refund. âIf you purchased the game expecting Intel Arc support, please refer to the refund policy of the platform where the game was purchased for available options,â the company wrote. Apparently, though, itâs not from lack of guidance from Intel. The chipmaker told Wccftech that it reached out to Pearl Abyss âmany timesâ over the past several years. The Intel spokesperson said that the company has tried to help the developer âtest, validate, and optimize support for Intel graphicsâ for years. Intel also tried to provide the developer âearly hardware, drivers, and engineering resourcesâ across several generations of GPUs, âincluding Alchemist, Battlemage, Meteor Lake, and Lunar Lake.â The chipmaker said itâs âhugely disappointed that players using Intel graphics hardwareâ canât play the game, but that it remains âready to assist Pearl Abyssâ however it can. It also advised players to reach out directly to the developer for âdetails on the choice not to enable Intel support at launch.âPearl Abyss, of course, doesnât have the obligation to tweak the game so that it runs on PCs with Intel Arc GPUs. The good news is that since the title came out just a few days ago, it will still be easy to get a refund. Steam, where Crimson Desert is now one of the top-selling games, issues refunds within two weeks of purchase. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/pc/intel-says-crimson-desert-devs-ignored-offers-of-help-to-support-arc-gpus-155514896.html?src=rss
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The Hot Take: I would love this, brings back more privacy if you ask me.
Microsoft's big sweeping set of improvements coming soon to Windows 11 don't address its controversial Microsoft account requirements, but that might soon change.
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| March 21, 2026 |
Hardware
The Hot Take: We'll own nothing and be happy folks.
Japanese PC peripherals and accessories stalwart Elecom has announced that it is pulling out of the Blu-ray drive market.
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The Hot Take: Microsoft is just consuming Linux one bite at a time for sure...
Canonical has announced a collaboration with Microsoft to integrate Ubuntu Pro security features with Microsoft Defender, improving protection for enterprise Linux systems. This brings advanced threat detection and response tools into Ubuntu environments, giving organizations a more unified way to secure critical workloads across platforms. Linux is at the center of many enterprise systems, from cloud infrastructure to databases and transaction platforms, so tightening its security is a clear priority. Canonical connecting its Ubuntu Pro service directly with Microsoft Defender means firms running Ubuntu will be able to plug into Microsoftâs broader security ecosystem without needing to stitch separate tools⌠[Continue Reading]
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The Hot Take: Intel hopefully catches up. We'll have to see what the real word benches say.
When an apparent Medusa Point APU based on AMD's next-generation Zen 6 architecture found its way to Geekbench earlier this week, the big news was the amount of reported L3 cache. Well, whoever is uploading benchmark runs of the mystery chip to Geekbench has done so again, and this time the highlight is on the performance and what looks like
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The Hot Take: So we can lock in that price gouging?
Samsung is reportedly pushing memory customers into surprise three- to five-year supply contracts.
It thinks it can spot price swings âearly onâ and adjust investment before it gets caught with too much new capacity and nowhere to ship it.
Samsung chief executive Jun Young-hyun said, âWe are now working with our major customers to shift this transaction environment toward fixed-term supply contracts, three- to five-year contracts. We expect to be able to identify fluctuations [in the market] early on and, because we are aware of them in advance, we will be able to flexibly adjust our investment scale accordingly.â
That is a sharp turn from a few months ago, when Samsung was reportedly so slammed it barely had room for quarterly contracts, never mind multi-year ones.
Under the cunning plan, Samsung gets a longer view of demand for planning and expansions, while customers get a âslight discountâ off todayâs prices in exchange for less uncertainty.
The arrangement would help Samsung keep DRAM pricing steadier by âlocking inâ peak shortage levels, even if demand cools and the cycle normally rolls downhill.
For consumers, it risks prolonging the pain, since earlier estimates of the DRAM cycle easing in 2027-2028 seem optimistic if supply is already tied up.
Suppliers have been muttering that the boom might not last âToo Longâ, and multi-year deals look like another way to avoid over-investment while keeping everyone else boxed out.
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The Hot Take: Looks like we're all jumping on the bandwagon to out price tech....
"This year is the most severe year since the company was founded," MSI told investors.
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The Hot Take: Linux definitely seems to be gaining Gamers, as Windows 11 keeps going down the road of not listening to Customers.
<p><img src="https://a.fsdn.com/sd/topics/linux_64.png" alt="linux_64.png"></p>Linux gaming "has gotten to the point where some people claim that Linux runs their games better than Windows does," according to the Android site XDA Developers. And there's a new surprise on ProtonDB, an "unofficial" community website with crowdsourced data about videogame compatability with the Linux software/gaming compatability layer Proton:
On ProtonDB, one operating system had reigned supreme since 2021: Arch Linux. And I say 'had,' because its streak has just been ended by [Arch-based] CachyOS in an upset that has slowly grown over the past two years. As reported on Boiling Steam, the number of reports coming from CachyOS has topped that of Arch Linux, which held the crown for the most number of reports since 2021...
[T]his isn't really a statement that CachyOS is the best gaming distro out there; however, it's seemingly attracting the largest number of gamers who are invested in testing games on Proton and reporting their performance, which is a pretty big milestone if you ask me.
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The Hot Take: Good choice getting close to the Ai market king, but that's a double edge sword. I have a feeling this will just hasten Intel's acquisition by Nvidia. Nvidia just dropping a large chuck of ARM which doesn't make sense seeing they're Grace CPU is an ARM SoC and their NX1 is supposed to be another ARM SoC too. Time will tell.
<p><a href="https://wccftech.com/intel-to-show-up-at-nvidia-gtc-at-the-perfect-time/"><img width="728" height="546" src="https://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/G1H6wsLaQAER8gz-2-728x546.jpeg" alt="Man wearing a grey sweater with intel. logo in an indoor setting."></a></p><p>Intel is now coming to NVIDIA's GTC mega-event, not just a guest this time, but rather the company will play an important role in dictating the future of NVIDIA's compute capabilities. Intel's Server CPU Constraints Are Going to Get a Lot More Aggressive, Following Their Collaboration With NVIDIA For those unaware, this year's GTC is expected to feature several major announcements that will influence NVIDIA and its supply chain partners, particularly Intel, which will also get the spotlight. NVIDIA and Intel entered into a $5 billion agreement a few months ago, in which both companies agreed to work together in [âŚ]</p><p>Read full article at <a href="https://wccftech.com/intel-to-show-up-at-nvidia-gtc-at-the-perfect-time/">https://wccftech.com/intel-to-show-up-at-nvidia-gtc-at-the-perfect-time/</a></p>
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