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  • Reminder: Donate to win swag in our annual Charity Drive sweepstakes

    If you’ve been too busy planning for Half-Life 3 to take part in this year’s Ars Technica Charity Drive sweepstakes, don’t worry. You still have time to donate to a good cause and get a chance to win your share of over $4,000 worth of swag (no purchase necessary to win).

    In the first week or so of the drive, over 300 readers have contributed nearly $18,000 to either the Electronic Frontier Foundation or Child’s Play as part of the charity drive (Child’s Play has a roughly 55/45 donation lead at the moment). That’s still a long way from 2020’s record haul of over $58,000, but there’s plenty of time until the Charity Drive wraps up on Friday, January 2, 2026.

    That doesn’t mean you should put your donation off, though. Do yourself and the charities involved a favor and give now while you’re thinking about it.

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  • RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders

    The first few months of 2025 were full of graphics card reviews where we generally came away impressed with performance and completely at a loss on availability and pricing. The testing in these reviews is useful regardless, but when it came to extra buying advice, the best we could do was to compare Nvidia’s imaginary pricing to AMD’s imaginary pricing and wait for availability to improve.

    Now, as the year winds down, we’re facing price spikes for memory and storage that are unlike anything I’ve seen in two decades of pricing out PC parts. Pricing for most RAM kits has increased dramatically since this summer, driven by overwhelming demand for these parts in AI data centers. Depending on what you’re building, it’s now very possible that the memory could be the single most expensive component you buy; things are even worse now than they were the last time we compared prices a few weeks ago.

    Component Aug. 2025 price Nov. 2025 price Dec. 2025 price
    Patriot Viper Venom 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR-6000 $49 $110 $189
    Western Digital WD Blue SN5000 500GB $45 $69 $102*
    Silicon Power 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 $34 $89 $104
    Western Digital WD Blue SN5000 1TB $64 $111 $135*
    Team T-Force Vulcan 32GB DDR5-6000 $82 $310 $341
    Western Digital WD Blue SN5000 2TB $115 $154 $190*
    Western Digital WD Black SN7100 2TB $130 $175 $210
    Team Delta RGB 64GB (2 x 32GB) DDR5-6400 $190 $700 $800

    Some SSDs are getting to the point where they’re twice as expensive as they were this summer (for this comparison, I’ve swapped the newer WD Blue SN5100 pricing in for the SN5000, since the drive is both newer and slightly cheaper as of this writing). Some RAM kits, meanwhile, are around four times as expensive as they were in August. Yeesh.

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  • Sony’s legal battle against Tencent’s Horizon ‘clone’ is already over

    In July, Sony sued Tencent to prevent the release of Light of Motiram, a game Sony alleged was a “slavish clone” of its popular Horizon series. But the legal battle is already over; the two companies have reached a “confidential settlement” and the case has been dismissed with prejudice, according to a court document filed on Wednesday.

    Light of Motiram is also no longer listed on Steam and the Epic Games Store despite the game’s website showing links to listings on both stores as of this writing. A user on the game’s official subreddit also noticed the removal, pointing to a SteamDB link that says “this app has been retired and is no longe …

    Read the full story at The Verge.