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A federal judge in Boston has blocked the Trump administration’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee, stating it is an unauthorized tax without congressional approval. The policy, enacted last year, drastically increased the fee from $2,000-$5,000 to prioritize U.S. citizens. The White House plans to appeal the decision

If you’re reading this article, chances are you’ve noticed how Valve’s new Steam Machine has the gaming world all excited. With memory and graphics card prices through the roof, due to part shortages and sky-high demand, any remotely affordable product is bound to draw attention. That’s why so much hype built up around the Steam Machine before it launched.…

Activision and Treyarch have finally released the last- and current-gen ports for Call of Duty: Black Ops and Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. They’re available digitally in the PlayStation Store, and for those with PS Plus subscriptions, a deep discount is waiting for them

As far as things go that you are likely to find during a relaxing walk in the forest, Nintendo 64 game cartridges probably do not rank high on that list. Yet this is what happened to a friend of [BlueBox Tinkers] a few years back, leaving him dying to see whether the cartridge would still…

The dawn of the 21st century proved to be a pivotal time for the gaming industry on multiple fronts. The year saw the launch of the Xbox, GameCube, and Game Boy Advance as the new console generation took shape. Meanwhile, Sony continued its support for its latest console, the PlayStation 2, while Sega quietly stopped…

Few franchises hold as cherished a place in the gaming community asCall of Duty: Black Opsand its sequel, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. Widely regarded by many enthusiasts as among the finest entries in the series’ history, the official announcement of their re-release on modern PlayStation consoles was met with considerable excitement and a…

For nearly two decades, the console battle between Xbox and PlayStation has divided the gaming community like nothing else

This week, Microsoft took a huge ax to its Xbox business. The company announced that it would be laying off 1,600 workers now, 1,600 more over the next fiscal year, and that it would be shedding four studios. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma hasn’t been shy about why she’s making such dramatic cuts, saying in a…

The timing raised eyebrows immediately. Sony President and CEO Hiroki Totoki sold 225,000 shares of Sony stock on July 3, 2026 for approximately $4,729,500, at $21.02 per share. Per an SEC filing surfaced by Quiver Quantitative, the sale represented approximately 56.5% of his holdings in that class of stock, leaving him with 173,250 shares. On…

It’s hard to put a good thing down, and though the world has moved several generations beyond AMD’s Zen 2, current shortages have brought it back in surprising fashion. AMD has effectively launched a new Zen 2 CPU for desktop in 2026: the Ryzen 7 4700LE