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Alan Velasco

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When Alan isn’t watching his favorite streamers on Twitch he’s writing about tech, gaming and cybersecurity.

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Microsoft continues to refine the Xbox experience as it aims to provide a familiar interface for gamers regardless of what platform a player happens to be using. It’s an effort that began earlier this year with the refresh of the Xbox... Read more...
Microsoft’s Xbox Cloud Gaming service is about to get more accessible as the company is now rolling out a preview that allows players to use either their phone or the recently launched Nano controller to play their games. This upgrade... Read more...
We already know that users are relying on AI chatbots for obtaining information instead of conducting web searches, which has led to companies such as Reddit to lock their sites down behind logins. OpenAI’s latest claims might be an... Read more...
Grand Theft Auto VI is a little over two weeks away and Rockstar isn’t the only company looking to capitalize on the hype. Microsoft’s Xbox gaming division is looking to tap into the frenzy surrounding the game’s impending release by... Read more...
Valve has spent over two decades building its Steam games storefront into the PC gaming juggernaut it is today, with it currently serving as the de facto place to buy games for most PC gamers. Epic Games has sought to knock Valve off the... Read more...
Nintendo just recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of Super Mario Bros., and speedrunners are still chipping away at the game trying to achieve a perfect run. Niftski, who holds several world records for the game, got tantalizingly... Read more...
It’s been a little over eight years since Bethesda gave gamers a brief first glimpse of the next installment in its long running Elder Scrolls franchise, tentatively titled as The Elder Scrolls VI. Since then, all fans have gotten are... Read more...
The PlayStation 5 hacking scene has been moving at lightning speed as of late, forcing Sony to scramble to plug security vulnerabilities with the release of Grand Theft Auto VI looming on the horizon. The latest project brings a port of... Read more...
As Discord is implementing changes to make its communities more accessible to the rest of the internet, Reddit is heading in the opposite direction and plans to lock away its content to only those who are logged into the site. This move... Read more...
Logitech’s MX Master 4 is the latest edition of the beloved Master mouse series, long a favorite of productivity minded users. The company is looking to celebrate its success with the introduction of the MX Master 4 Special Edition. It... Read more...
Rich chat platform Discord is looking to open up its discoverable servers, which the company says are the “most public spaces on Discord,” to those using search engines. If that makes privacy alarm bells go off in the back of your head... Read more...
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney isn’t a fan of the AI content disclosure policy Valve has implemented on its dominant digital gaming storefront, Steam. It has apparently bothered Sweeney enough that he’s taken to social media to decry it... Read more...
Grand Theft Auto VI is just mere weeks away from being released and Rockstar is in a full-on marketing blitz to ensure a steady stream of preorders. However, that hasn’t been enough to satiate the most hardcore of fans, who are now... Read more...
The rise of AI generated code has led to an explosion of open-source projects, ranging from making classic gaming experiences available on PC to attempts at providing users with viable alternatives to software giants. This increase in... Read more...
We’re less than a month away from the release of Grand Theft Auto VI, and Rockstar is putting on the full court press with its marketing efforts to keep those pre-orders rolling in. That includes running numerous commercials, and fans... Read more...
Sony is full speed ahead towards an all-digital future. Earlier this year the company announced that it would no longer produce physical game releases past 2027, sparking a huge backlash from the gaming community. It’s following that up by... Read more...
The gaming industry has been hit by wave after wave of layoffs and closures over the last few years, with little regard for their history. The latest on the chopping block is BioWare, which has released some of the most iconic video games... Read more...
CD Projekt Red is readying a new content drop based on the newly released season of the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime. Meanwhile, modders continue to do their thing as well, and a new project, spotted by PCGamesN, brings a taste of Grand... Read more...
It’s only been a week since Microsoft’s Xbox gaming division announced the formation of Xbox Labs, which is focused on leveraging AI to deliver games in new and interesting ways, and it appears to already be paying dividends. Xbox CEO... Read more...
Smart devices have been making headlines lately for being traffic hogs capable of generating several 100GBs of unnecessary traffic that can, in some instances, overwhelm home networks. The Google Home Speaker, which we reviewed earlier... Read more...
CD Projekt Red might be hard at work on several new projects, including the next entry in the The Witcher series, but the studio is still taking time to push out exciting new updates for existing titles. Cyberpunk 2077, which originally... Read more...
Plex users received an urgent security warning two months ago that urged them to update to the latest version of the self-hosted media streaming solution after the discovery of several vulnerabilities. At the time, there wasn’t much... Read more...
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