Items tagged with Gaming
Sony’s decision to no longer support physical game disc releases on its consoles after 2027 has kicked up a hornet’s nest in the gaming community and shined a spotlight to the realities of digital game purchases. It has led to a new bill...
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ASUS and Microsoft have opened retail sales for the ROG Xbox Ally X20 that was announced back in June, with the upgraded handheld now in stock at Best Buy and the ASUS webstore starting at $1,299. Developed in close collaboration with the Xbox
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In a preview release that went live today, Epic Games introduced a completely overhauled Epic Games Launcher, but with a slight twist. In a blog post announcing the release in preview form, Epic Games states "programming is hard," so it...
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Budget gamers rejoice because 8BitDo just expanded its popular value-focused gamepad line with the new Ultimate 3C+ Wireless Controller. Priced at just $39.99, 8BitDo's new controller impressively packs some high-end analog tech into its...
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Epic Games hasn’t shied away from its integration of AI into its development workflows as it continues to deliver a steady cadence of content drops for its various titles including its cash cow, Fortnite. However, according to Bloomberg’s...
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As you get ready to finish up your first semester back at school, are you finding that you could use a new laptop and want one that also has some gaming chops? If so, take note that Dell's Alienware 16 Aurora with RTX 50 firepower is back...
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At the Portland Retro Gaming Expo, Electronic Arts producer Jim Vessella surprised the gaming community by announcing Wing Commander III: 30th Anniversary Edition, a fully remastered version of Chris Roberts' popular 1994 space flight...
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One of the biggest question marks in video games right is what the future holds for physical media. Sony set the stage for an all-digital future on consoles by saying it will no longer release PlayStation game discs starting in 2028, and...
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Millions of players logged into Steam over the weekend, which in and of itself is not unusual. However, so many gamers flooded Valve's digital gaming platform that Steam set a new concurrent player record with a 24-hour peak of a little...
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Mini PCs have historically traded graphical horsepower for a smaller and more efficient footprint, but who says you can't have the best of both worlds? Not ASUS, which is looking to upend that compromise with its ProArt GR1X, a compact...
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Sony has filed a patent that illustrates how a game's non-playable characters (including enemies and bosses) could use a machine learning (ML) model to dynamically adjust to a player's behaviors, which could allow some single-player games...
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Rockstar's nemesis "CyberLeek" is at it again, having dropped a new "Extended Leek" of Grand Theft Auto VI footage showcasing a build that somehow has developer features unlocked. The Extended Leek mainly takes place in the Ambrosia region...
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This year’s Amazon Prime Big Deal Days event has got a little something for everyone, from sweet gaming monitors, to snazzy smartwatches, to gaming accessories that’ll round out your battle station. Console gamers aren’t being left out in the cold either, as there are some great discounts on a...
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Following weeks of chatter surrounding corporate restructuring and studio shakeup amid a 100-day reset plan, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma brought the focus back to the firm's hardware strategy during a recent town hall with Microsoft gaming...
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Biannual Love Magazine's issue 27's cover story is a deep dive on Grand Theft Auto VI's development in which Rockstar revealed its aversion to incorporating societal trends in its games. A statement from Rockstar senior VP of narrative...
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Tired of mousing around with a subpar rodent? If so, then it's time to shop for an upgrade, and there are several gaming mice on sale right now as part of Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days event that runs all day today and tomorrow. The...
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Seven years after the launch of the Elite Series 2, the next iteration of Microsoft’s premium controller appears to be sitting in the wings. Configurations and 3D component files for an unannounced pro-grade controller codenamed Edessa...
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Are you ready to shop? And could you use a new gaming PC or monitor? If the answer is an emphatic 'Yes' on both accounts, then fortune smiles on you today, as Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days event is officially underway, having started just...
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Microsoft is eliminating PC gaming's shader compilation stutter and endless first-boot load screens by expanding Advanced Shader Delivery (ASD) to all NVIDIA RTX GPUs later this month. Originally meant to deliver pre-compiled Shader Object...
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As development budgets continue to swell, won't anyone think of the poor game publishers? Warhorse Studios co-founder Martin Klima sure hopes so. In a recent interview with PC Gamer, the co-founder of the studio behind the Kingdom Come series said publishers are "scared to death" to raise game...
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The launch of The Witcher 3: Remastered as a free cross-platform update with path tracing has generated quite a buzz. Not only is the beloved classic The Witcher 3 still receiving excellent, free updates, but with the latest graphical...
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It's been almost fifteen years since Minecraft version 1.0.0 added "The End" dimension in its Adventure Update, but now that Minecraft Dungeons II is expanding the universe, "The Sift" dimension will also be added. Visually, The Sift...
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