Mobile hogs the spotlight while PC creeps up on consoles.

Beancounters at analyst outfit Newzoo have added up some numbers, divided by their shoe size, and concluded that the global video games business will pull in $197 billion in 2025.

Teaser shots, tidy plumbing and enough silicon bravado to make your wallet wince.

Boutique builder Digital Storm is dangling shiny bait for CES 2026, saying its next-gen Aventum X flagship desktop gaming PC is due for a reveal at the show.

Customers do not fancy handing a rival their crown jewels.

Troubled Chipzilla’s foundry push is tripping over the awkward detail that it still competes with the customers it is courting.

Taiwan keeps the sharp stuff at home, so Texas is suddenly popular.

TSMC has one hand tied behind its back, and Samsung Electronics is trying to cash in.

Vince Zampella dead at 55

Co-creator of the Call of Duty franchise and co-founder of Infinity Ward, Vince Zampella, has died in a single-car accident in Los Angeles,  NBC Los Angeles reports. He was 55.

Wants to get all rusty

Software King of the World, Microsoft, wants to burn its C and C++ bridges and will modernise its biggest codebases by the end of the decade, replacing C and C++ with Rust.

AI expansion goes global as ByteDance aims to compete

ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, is set to ramp up its AI investments significantly next year.

Mozilla prioritises user control with new AI options in Firefox

The big cheeses at the Mozzarella Foundation have announced that Firefox will ship with a unique “AI kill switch” that lets users disable all AI features in the web browser.

Only AI work going

America's unemployment rate for tech jobs hit four per cent in November, continuing a steady climb since May, according to the Washington Post, citing data from CompTIA.

DRM update gives Nintendo the power to render consoles permanently unusable

Ahead of the Switch 2's release, the former playing card maker Nintendo has updated its user agreement, granting it sweeping powers to make customers' consoles "permanently unusable" for LOLs and giggles.