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Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn TTRPG Lays the Groundwork for His Next Series
Brotherwise Games is preparing to take the Cosmere, born out of Brandon Sanderson's creative brain, into the Space Age.
After 10 Years, Boruto Announces Official Death Of The Hokage Title
Boruto: Two Blue Vortex lays the groundwork for the symbolic death of Konoha's Hokage, and the end of the shinobi system.
Microsoft adds Intel APX support in latest Windows 11 preview build
Microsoft has introduced official support for Intel's Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) in Windows 11 Insider build 29695. While no consumer PCs can currently take advantage of the instruction set, the software toggle lays the groundwork for Intel's next-generation “Nova Lake” processors ahead...
GTA 6 Tech Will Help Create the Next Rockstar Game, Won't Be Another 8-Year Wait
Laying the groundwork for the future. A new interview with lead Rockstar developers has shared how the technology the developer has been creating for GTA 6 will also help make the games that come after it release faster. Speaking to Bloomberg, development heads Phil Hooker and Aaron Garburt "vow"...
CAPCOM Wants REX Engine to Become an Engine for the “AI Generation,” Where AI Could Write Code and Hunt Bugs
CAPCOM is laying the groundwork for its game engine to be co-developed alongside AI. At its CAPCOM Open Conference RE:2026, a technology event held on October 2, programmer Satoshi Ishida detailed REX, a project to evolve RE Engine for the next generation, with the main goal to turn it into a game...
61 Years Ago, Star Trek's Greatest Failure Changed the Franchise Forever
NBC rejected “The Cage,” but Star Trek’s failed first pilot laid the groundwork for the franchise and the eventual return of Captain Pike.
58 Years Ago, Star Trek Officially Switched Genres With an All-Time Classic Episode
“The Enterprise Incident” turned Kirk and Spock into spies and helped lay the groundwork for decades of Star Trek espionage.
AMD Quietly Lays GDDR7 Groundwork In Linux Kernel, Signaling RDNA 5 Could Finally Abandon Aging GDDR6
AMD has begun preparing its open-source Linux graphics driver for GDDR7 memory as spotted in the latest kernel patches. Latest AMDGPU Patches Introduce a GDDR7 Identifier Alongside New IP Blocks, Which Could be Associated With AMD's RDNA 5 Architecture While AMD didn't confirm the memory type it...
World of Warcraft: Forever Is Blizzard’s Third Version of WoW, Launching November 4 After Years of Groundwork
Blizzard finally said it out loud at BlizzCon 2026: the thing the WoW Classic community has been arguing about and demanding for years now has a name (World of Warcraft: Forever), a (very close) release date, and more content than most fans reasonably expected. World of Warcraft: Forever launches...
AMD Adds New GFX1171 GPU Support To Mesa 26.3, Hinting At Future RDNA 4m Graphics
AMD has enabled support for GFX1171 in Mesa 26.3, adding another GPU target under the RDNA 4m family. Latest Mesa Graphics Driver Update Lays the Groundwork for Upcoming Medusa Point Integrated Graphics AMD continues preparing its open-source Linux graphics stack for hardware that hasn't been...
Star Wars The Old Republic rolls out GU 7.9.1 today with Galactic Season 11 coming August 18
As promised, Star Wars The Old Republic’s GU 7.9.1 patch, Light and Shadow, is officially live today. The primary content chunk of the patch is actually the new Galactic Season, although technically it doesn’t go live until August 18th, meaning Broadsword is mainly laying the groundwork here....
AMD Prepares Linux Driver Support For RDNA 5 GPUs With New DCN6 Display Engine Patches
The team Red has started laying the groundwork for the RDNA 5 lineup on Linux by introducing initial support for DCN6. Early AMDGPU Patches Introduce Display Core Next 6, Tied to the Upcoming GFX13 Graphics Architecture AMD has taken one more step toward enabling support for its next-generation...
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