The AI boom is driving memory and storage shortages that may last a decade; OpenAI's Stargate has deals for 900K DRAM wafers per month, or ~40% of global output
Once-cheap SSDs, DRAM, and HDD prices are climbing fast as AI demand and constrained supply converge to create the tightest market in years. Bluesky: @smcgrath.phd , @broximar , @zhugeex.com , @tprstl...
A profile of Genshin Impact creator HoYoverse, which is exploring new game genres as its titles begin to cannibalize each other and its revenue declined in 2024
HoYoverse plots a future path to reach further than its anime roots — For decades, Chinese video games and American gamers just didn't mix. Bluesky: @jaysheen . X: @zhugeex , @cecianasta , and @ceci...
Industry insiders hope the success of Black Myth: Wukong, which earned ~$1.1B from ~25M copies sold, will rekindle Chinese gaming investments after crackdowns
As Beijing eases regulations, developers are tooling up to produce big-budget titles with international appeal Bluesky: @zhugeex.com . X: @macaesbruno Bluesky: Daniel Ahmad / @zhugeex.com : I'm quoted...
Sony has sold over 40M PS5s since its launch in November 2020, up from 10M in July 2021, despite the “unprecedented challenges of COVID” and supply chain issues
here's where to get it Robert Anderson / IGN : Sony's First PS5 Sale Debuts with Attractive Price Drops in the UK and Beyond Matthew Humphries / PCMag : Sony Blows Microsoft Out of the Water, Tops 40 ...
Microsoft's head of IR says Xbox will be in short supply through at least June, after it sold every unit it had last quarter and topped $5B in gaming revenue
Microsoft reveals when shortage will subside Tweets: Tom Warren / @tomwarren : Microsoft says it has sold every Xbox it has, but Xbox Series X will be in short supply until at least June. It sounds li...
Behind the success of Tencent's Honour of Kings, a League of Legends-like mobile title launched in 2015, which became the first game in history to hit 100M DAUs
Josh Ye / South China Morning Post : Tweets: @scmpnews , @therealjoshye , and @zhugeex Tweets: @scmpnews : Before Honour of Kings became the world's most popular game, it was a desperate experiment h...
Epic says its PC game store, which serves as Fortnite's launcher, has 108M users and generated $251M in 3rd-party game sales since its debut in December 2018
they work Jacob Siegal / BGR : Epic Games Store giving away free games every week through 2020 Tweets: @polygon : Epic Games Store to continue giving away games weekly in 2020 https://www.polygon.com/...