Browsing: 2026

The graphics card you priced out last winter costs meaningfully more today, and the reason has almost nothing to do with gaming. Through the first half of 2026, an artificial-intelligence buildout of unprecedented scale has swallowed the world’s memory supply, and the fallout has landed squarely on PC gamers. GPU prices are climbing across every…

The Steam Frame vs Quest 3 question is the most consequential matchup in consumer VR heading into the back half of 2026. Valve’s first standalone headset since the tethered Index is a 16GB, SteamOS-powered machine built to stream your entire PC library wirelessly, and it is arriving into a market where Meta’s Quest 3 and…

Not too long ago, most in-game items existed in a closed ecosystem. Players could spend hundreds of hours unlocking rare skins, weapons, characters, or collectables, but none of it truly belonged to them outside the game itself. NFTs began to change that idea by giving players actual ownership of digital assets. Instead of items sitting…

For Anime Trending’s first compilation of Summer 2026 anime early impressions, I’ll be checking out the debut episodes ofThe World is Dancing, Chainsmoker Cat, Grow-Up Show, and Sparks of Tomorrow

North America’s largest anime convention delivered its most announcement-dense two days in recent memory this weekend in Los Angeles, with the Crunchyroll Showcase on July 3 functioning as a live showcase of Sony’s vertically integrated anime empire: a Solo Leveling theatrical film now in production, a confirmed Steel Ball Run premiere date, Akira returning to…