Items tagged with Gaming
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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Office chairs are the unsung hero of the workday, but they can also cost a pretty penny, and not just when they have Herman Miller printed on the frame. Purpose-built gaming chairs often command a premium, too. What's a gamer to do? Well, one option is to be patient and wait for a discount...
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When Cath Bowie’s grandson knocked her from starting an online Fortnite channel nearly a decade ago, saying that no one would want to watch a senior citizen play video games, he accidentally sparked one of the most remarkable careers in...
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Developer 2K Games is done giving warnings. Following up on a pledge made back in August, the studio just unleashed a barrage of permanent bans on NBA 2K27 players who have been caught cheating. It's another salvo in the wider war against...
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Fans of physical game releases, don't give up hope yet, because there are rays of sunshine peeking through the dark clouds of the all-digital future. First, it got out that Microsoft was surveying fans about supporting game discs with its...
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Microsoft’s Xbox gaming division is the midst of a big reset as outlined earlier this year when the company laid off hundreds of employees and shed several smaller studios. The next phase of this shakeup is now in motion and will see more...
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