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HoloDust said:

Been catching up with this Steam on Android via translation layers thing that's been going on lately, either Winlator or Gamehub.

Now, it's been known for a while that Valve is working on Proton for ARM, but man, I'm excited to see if they'll release actual Steam for Android...or even maybe SteamOS for ARM.

Well, with MSoft and Qualcomm trying to counter Apple's laptops with their ARM chips and OS, plus Google (somewhat) merging Android and Chrome OS, this is something Valve needs to keep in mind. Plus more options to gamers to game with or without Windows.

konnichiwa said:

Oh boy...

ADATA's Chen Libai has said that supplies of all the major memory and storage technologies—DRAM, NAND, and HDD—are now in shortage. Chen says it's the first time that has happened in 30 years.

The reason is clear enough: demand from AI. "Our competitors in the fight for supply are no longer our peers, but giant CSPs (cloud service providers)," Chen said. By way of example, OpenAI alone (yeah, it's always OpenAI) has signed a deals with Samsung and SK Hynix for fully 900,000 DRAM wafers per month, which is equivalent to 40% of current global DRAM output.

Moreover, the AI-driven surge in demand is prompting manufacturers to prioritise production capacity for high-margin applications. Sound familiar? It's all rather too reminiscent of the GPU market for comfort, and we know what happened to graphics card prices in the last few years. Ouch.

In terms of ADATA's own business, which majors in memory modules, Chen says the company has had to instruct sales staff to "sell sparingly and support key customers." He also thinks unprecedented demand from the AI industry means that the usual boom-and-bust DRAM cycle has been broken.

As for what this means for we poor PC gamers, well, it looks like there's a good chance that RAM and SSD prices are set to join GPUs as significant pain points. Indeed, it's already happening.

By way of example, this popular Crucial 32GB DDR5 kit was ticking along at $84.99 for much of 2025 on Amazon. Now it's $119.99. How high it will go in the coming months is hard to say.

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/memory/uh-oh-its-happening-adata-chairman-says-the-perfect-storm-of-simultaneous-dram-ssd-and-hdd-shortages-is-already-upon-us-and-it-looks-like-prices-are-only-going-in-one-direction

When it's not one thing it's another, but it feels like there is always a way to make computer hardware more expensive than it should be, and not jus for PC gamers (that smaller drive on the PS5 has likely happened for this reason).

I hope manufacturers can catch up quickly with the demand, but I feel bad for those trying to upgrade their PCs right now.

Rhonin the wizard said:

Several games from CITY CONNECTION will be removed from sale on 31 October due to license expiration.

Dragon Blaze - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1279420/Dragon_Blaze
GUNBARICH - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1342240/GUNBARICH
GUNBIRD - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1261970/GUNBIRD
GUNBIRD 2 - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1279410/GUNBIRD_2
Samurai Aces - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1261980/Samurai_Aces
Samurai Aces III: Sengoku Cannon - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1279390/Samurai_Aces_III_Sengoku_Cannon
SOL DIVIDE -SWORD OF DARKNESS- - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1279450/SOL_DIVIDE_SWORD_OF_DARKNESS
STRIKERS 1945 - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1261960/STRIKERS_1945
STRIKERS 1945 II - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1279380/STRIKERS_1945_II
STRIKERS 1945 III - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1279400/STRIKERS_1945_III
TENGAI - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1279370/TENGAI
ZERO GUNNER 2- - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1342250/ZERO_GUNNER_2

That's a lot of shoot'em'ups. Too bad.

It's also a shame that they aren't doing a sale as a last hurrah!

By the way, I'm so glad multi-quote is fixed.