In a recently shared data center AI chip roadmap posted on X, we get a good look at what companies have on the market already, and what's in the AI chip pipeline through to 2027. Check it out:

The list includes chip makers NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, ByteDance, and Huawei. You can see the list of NVIDIA AI GPUs includes the Ampere A100 through to the Hopper H100, GH200, H200 AI GPUs, and into the Blackwell B200A, B200 Ultra, GB200 Ultra and GB200A. But after that -- which we all know is coming -- is Rubin and Rubin Ultra, both rocking next-gen HBM4 memory.

We also have AMD's growing line of Instinct MI series AI accelerators, with the MI250X through to the new MI350 and the upcoming MI400 listed in there for 2026 and beyond.

In the early 1990s, Nintendo announced that it was partnering with Sony to develop and create a new PlayStation console that would play Nintendo cartridges and Sony CDs. At the time, the CD-ROM was considered a cutting-edge game changer as it offered over 100 times the storage space compared to a traditional game cartridge or floppy disk.

Nintendo ultimately withdrew from the deal and partnered with Philips for the doomed-to-fail Philips CD-i system. Sony went on to develop the PlayStation as a standalone console. The rest is history. However, the Nintendo PlayStation or Nintendo-backed version of the Sony PlayStation made it to the prototype phase. Over the years, it has become an extremely rare collectible and a fascinating historical artifact.

A prototype Nintendo PlayStation sold for $360,000 at an auction back in 2020, and now Heritage Auctions has sold a Nintendo PlayStation controller prototype for a cool $35,000. This is an eye-watering amount for what looks like a Super Nintendo controller with a Sony and PlayStation logo on it.

Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B is a "miniaturized version" of the new highly accurate Mistral NeMo 12B AI model. It is tailor-made for GPU-accelerated data centers, the cloud, and high-end workstations with NVIDIA RTX hardware. Accuracy is often sacrificed to ensure performance regarding scalable AI models; Mistral AI and NVIDIA's new Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B deliver the best of both worlds.

Small enough to run in real-time on a workstation or desktop rig with a high-end GeForce RTX 40 Series graphics card, with NVIDIA, noting that the 8B or 8 billion variant excels when it comes to benchmarks for AI chatbots, virtual assistant, content generation, and educational tools.

Available and packaged as an NVIDIA NIM microservice (downloadable via Hugging Face), Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B is currently outperforming Llama 3.1 8B and Gemma 7B in the all-important accuracy category in at least nine popular benchmarks for AI language models.

Concord is a new first-person competitive hero shooter from Firewalk Studios and the latest first-party PlayStation game to launch simultaneously on PC and PlayStation 5. Earlier this year, Sony found immediate and incredible success in releasing the multiplayer-focused Helldivers 2 on PC and PS5.

Was it hoping to replicate that success with Concord? Most likely. However, the opposite has happened - Concord has had one of the worst game launches in recent memory, hitting a maximum of 697 concurrent players on its first weekend on Steam. And it's dropping fast.

This is a dramatically lower player count than even 2024's most notorious flop, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, and a death sentence for a competitive shooter. By all accounts, the gameplay of Concord isn't the issue, nor is the overall performance and polish of the game - the game isn't resonating with gamers for a few key reasons. Let's break them down.

Popular action-adventure game Stellar Blade has generated roughly $19.5 million in revenue for developer Shift Up, but it has apparently sold more than 1 million copies on the PlayStation 5.

New earnings reports from Korean games company Shift Up give a clear look at the impact of Stellar Blade's sales. According to publicly-released data, Shift Up made 65.2 million Korean won (KRW), which amounts to roughly $48 million, in Q2'24, which coincides with the April - June 2024 period in which Stellar Blade had launched.

The company enjoyed an impressive operating profit margin of nearly 69% with 45.1 million KRW ($33.1 million) earned during the quarter. According to the results, Stellar Blade made about $19.5 million in royalties, which is an interesting figure.

Steam has increased its concurrent player count by over 500,000 users in the last month, new data from SteamDB reveals.

Valve's PC platform has now achieved a new all-time concurrent player record. According to updated figures from SteamDB, the distribution client has amassed a whopping 37.26 million users all logged into the service at the same time. All-time peak players reached a total of 37,266,324, up +657,292 users since July 2024.

Black Myth: Wukong, which has sold a total of 10 million copies across all platforms, may be a big driver for some of this growth. The game has proven to be wildly successful in China, and has been #1 on Steam's top-selling charts for days since Wukong's launch on August 19.

Concord is #511 on Steam's top sellers list, official sales data from Valve indicates.

It's no shock that Concord isn't doing too well on Steam right now. Sony Interactive Entertainment's new first-party live service shooter has achieved less than 700 peak concurrent players since launch on Valve's PC platform--at the time of writing, there are 340 players, with 437 peak players in the last 24-hour period.

Valve publishes its top-selling games on Steam in a 1-100 list, but there's also an extended list that includes all of the platform's games listed from best- to worst-selling. Out of curiosity, I decided to take this list and throw it into Excel just to see where Concord sat.

US federal judge Pamela Chan has ordered Martin Shkreli "Pharma Bro" to turn over any and all copies he possesses of an ultra-rare Wu-Tang Clan album "Once Upon A Time in Shaolin" from 2015.

Not only that, but Shkreli is also forbidden from streaming or disseminating copies of the record, which is not just ultra-rate, but only a single copy exists on the planet, and Pharma Bro owns it. Why is this happening? The album's current owner, digital collective "PleasrDAO", claims that Shkreli has unauthorized copies of the album, and distributed it without permission.

Steven Cooper, one of the attorneys representing PleasrDAO provided an oral argument in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York with Judge Pamela Chan, with Cooper releasing a statement saying: "Today's ruling by the court is an important victory for our client PleasrDAO, who owns the exclusive rights to the one-of-a-kind-Wu-Tang Clan album".

The news of two new Half-Life games in development has been rumored for a while now, but more and more information is coming out about the two new Half-Life gamers from leaker Tyler McVicker. Check out his latest video below:

The 20th anniversary of Half-Life 2 is fast approaching us, so Valve teasing a next-generation Half-Life game would be quite the way to celebrate Gordon Freeman's 20th birthday. McVicker reminds us about Valve's next-gen in-house Deckard VR headset, connecting the dots between the new VR headset and the new Half-Life games.

Valve's two new Half-Life games would include a version you can play with your mouse and keyboard on the PC, playing as Gordon Freeman, while the other game is in VR -- probably tailor-made for Valve's new Deckard VR headset -- as Alyx Vance. You play TOGETHER in the new game, which would be incredibly cool to see happen.

MSI will feed your next-gen GeForce RTX 50 series GPU with its high-end X870E motherboards featuring dedicated 8-pin PCIe power connectors to pump more power into the motherboard, and then into the graphics card.

The company showed off its new MPG X870E Carbon Wi-Fi motherboard with a ton of features and upgrades, with one of the most interesting parts of MSI's new high-end X870E motherboard is its dedicated 8-pin power connector that supplements the power needs of the Gen5 lanes on the motherboard.

Wccftech scored some more details on this new feature, and the reason why MSI is packing on an 8-pin power connector on its high-end X870E motherboards is for NVIDIA's next-generation GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards coming out later this year, and into 2025.