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(Bloomberg) — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is selling its gaming arm in a deal worth at least $1.5 billion that will boost the Chinese e-commerce leader’s pivot to AI.

LDPlayer 9 is the Android emulator competitive mobile gamers keep coming back to, and the August 2026 build (14.0.22.0) makes it worth a fresh setup pass even if you tried it before. It trades a slower boot time for higher frames-per-second-per-GB of RAM than rivals like BlueStacks, which matters if you’re farming resources in a…

Six gaming handhelds now compete for the same shelf space, and the gap between the cheapest and priciest option has widened to more than $1,250. Steam Deck OLED, Nintendo Switch 2, ROG Xbox Ally X, MSI Claw 8 EX AI+, Lenovo Legion Go 2, and Retroid Pocket 6 each chase a different buyer, and picking…

It might seem like a joke worthy of April Fools’ Day (watch your step!), but this has been on the Web for several days, and it’s real: TheRasteri previously shared several MS-DOS experiments and even developed accessories to improve compatibility with modern hardware. This time, though, he decided to go to extremes—building the fastest MS-DOS…

Lenovo confirmed this week that its Legion C700 handheld will land in China this August, and the device breaks from every gaming handheld playbook of the past three years. Where the Legion Go, ROG Ally, and MSI Claw all chase more local horsepower, the C700 ships with none of it. Lenovo built the 556-gram device…

Gaming laptops have come a long way, with the latest models featuring RTX graphics cards being more capable than their predecessors. However, cooling remains a sensitive subject across laptops to this day due to their form factor.

Recently, PUBG MOBILE‘s attempts to grow its competitive footprint in Western Europe saw it sign a partnership with G2 Esportsand launch an ambassador program, revealing German content creator Janicka Gaming as the first ‘dedicated ambassador’ for Western Europe.

A small change can have such a massive impact on thermals / Image made using Gemini

Every year the Windows-versus-Mac argument gets framed as a tribal loyalty test. In 2026 it is actually a spreadsheet problem. Apple’s M5 chips have widened the efficiency gap over x86 laptops, Windows 11 still owns the PC gaming library by a wide margin, and DRAM shortages have pushed component costs up across both platforms. The…

Epic Games ran a Discord-based alternate reality game in the 48 hours before this article’s publication, seeding Fortnite’s upcoming Chapter 7 Season 4 with coded transmissions that the community decoded one franchise at a time — and the reveal that generated the most reaction was not the iconic hedgehog or the Tokyo Phantom Thief. It…