Chris Harper
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Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal, two U.S. senators, have asked the FTC and SEC to probe Meta over an estimated $16 billion in scam ad revenue in 2024. A letter from the two to the agencies stated, "The FTC and SEC should immediately...
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In a recent interview, Valve warned that the upcoming Steam Machine won't be priced like a game console. It's not clear what that means just yet, but speculation concerning the Steam Machine's pricing has been rampant. We previously wrote...
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In a rare event, a number of first-party Nintendo Switch games are on sale on Amazon, just in time for Black Friday. While Nintendo doesn't often place any of its first-party titles on sale, a number of prominent games including Super...
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Benchmarks of an Intel Panther Lake-H engineering sample have leaked on X/Twitter, and the results have spurred some interesting debate. Before proceeding, though, it's important to clarify the nature of engineering sample hardware and how...
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Aoostar released an updated teaser image of its AMD Ryzen Strix Halo-powered mini PC, the Aoostar Nex395, with a much different design than the original. The new design looks much smoother and more streamlined, whereas the former had...
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During the recent Xbox Partner Preview, Microsoft announced several upcoming Xbox and PC games, but also highlighted that the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) would be rolling out to all PC gaming handhelds and eventually expanding to...
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Silverstone just launched the FLP02, a new retro-inspired PC case design that harkens back to the 80s and 90s. The FLP02 has a standard tower configuration in contrast to the older lay-flat Silverstone FLP01. The FLP02 has more...
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The Abxylute 3D One is a new Intel Lunar Lake-powered PC gaming handheld with a glasses-free 3D display akin to the legendary Nintendo 3DS. The device also features a detachable keyboard (included) like the Microsoft Surface, and...
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Speaking in an interview on CNBC's Squawk Box segment, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick stated he believes that the gaming industry is "moving towards PC, and business is moving toward open rather than closed." He goes on to clarify that "If...
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In an interview with BBC News, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai stated that while AI has experienced "extraordinary" growth, there is "irrationality" in that growth, and that "no company is going to be immune" should it prove to be a...
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The entry-level NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 is underpowered compared to its bigger siblings, but such compromises have never stopped modders before. Undertaking the sacred duty of squeezing as much performance out of underpowered silicon as...
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 has officially launched, and early impressions are mixed. Two almost universally maligned parts of the latest COD game can be seen in blatantly AI-generated art and what looks to be one of the worst campaigns yet...
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Metroid Prime 4 is due to release on December 4th, 2025, and some outlets were invited to a hands-on preview. When the embargo lifted, early testers posted their impressions of the first few hours of the game, mainly across the space...
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Valve's massive Steam hardware announcements included the first in-house designed Valve Steam Machine, and while most of its reception was positive, a number of critics have expressed skepticism about how well the Steam Machine will...
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Following reports earlier this year that Nintendo had made some odd low-level changes to the Nintendo Switch 2's USB-C support for third-party accessories, a recent firmware update seems to be bricking functionality of third-party docking...
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Intel's been making moves under the radar lately, and they're good news for Team Blue—not only do the most recent GitHub Intel Xess 2,1 SDK patch notes reveal that Frame Gen is coming to Core Ultra 100-series iGPUs, but the 60th Edition of...
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11/14 Update: Dell has contacted us to clarify that the exploit in question can only occur during the installation of DDPM versions prior to 2.1.2.12 made via the DDPM Application UI. Dell states that "If customers have installed DDPM...
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During an online investor conference, ASUS co-CEO Shubin Hu has stated that the rise of DRAM prices is a problem for everyone across the PC industry, and that it is spurred by a combination of two factors: the massive increase in demand for RAM to fuel AI servers, and limited DRAM production...
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Valve is launching three new Steam Hardware projects in 2026, and two of them are quite familiar. The Steam Frame is the newest of the bunch, intended as a lower cost alternative to the ultra-premium Valve Index, joining the likes of Meta...
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During its State of Play Japan conference, Sony surprise-announced new PlayStation hardware—a PlayStation Gaming Monitor, specifically, which also includes a DualSense charging hook. While we don't know how much it will cost yet, the...
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Android apps will soon be facing penalties for excess battery drain on the Play Store, but developers will be made aware of these issues and have time to fix them before they are penalized, per Google's latest Android Developers Blog post...
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Speaking in an interview, Bethesda Softworks head Todd Howard confirmed that The Elder Scrolls VI is now in playtesting, but also that the full release of the game is still far off in the distance.
Since the original Elder Scrolls...
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