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It has been nearly four years since the release of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2, which brought these classic titles into the modern era. Fans have been eagerly awaiting more games in the beloved series to get the same treatment. However, it seemed like a long shot after Blizzard absorbed game studio Vicarious Visions...
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You've probably done it yourself: you need to know how hard a given application is hitting your CPU, so you pull up Windows' Task Manager to check the CPU utilization. For a casual inquiry, this is fine, but for anything approaching scientific rigor, you need to be using a third-party application because Windows' Task...
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For some years, Skype was popular for connecting people via voice and video, but its journey is ending. Yesterday, Microsoft announced that Skype will be replaced by Microsoft Teams in May 2025.
14 years after its acquisition by Microsoft, the company has announced plans to discontinue Skype in favour of Teams...
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Minecraft has been a legendary franchise that has won the hearts of gamers of all ages. Together with this popularity, comes a new collaboration for fans who crave anything related to Minecraft. As such, Razer has launched its Minecraft Collection, which is a robust set of peripherals that are themed with Minecraft...
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AI is being heralded as an important part of the future game development pipeline by the biggest players in the industry, with the latest push coming from Microsoft with the release of its Muse AI model. However, it seems as if the future is here, according to Call of Duty’s Steam page that now contains an AI...
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For years, predicting when quantum computing would become practical has been difficult, largely because of fundamental challenges that had no clear solutions. Those timelines may need to be advanced considerably, though; Microsoft has announced Majorana 1 (pronounced "Ma-ya-ra-nah", because it's Italian), the world's...
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Generative AI seems poised to become an integral part of the game development pipeline, with Microsoft unveiling Muse, a World and Human Action Model (WHAM). It’s the first model of its kind, and comes by way of a collaborative effort between the research team and Xbox Game Studios’ Ninja Theory, which provided...
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Discovered in 2020, the XCSSET malware gained notoriety for granting cybercriminals remote access to developers' MacBooks. While this discovery led to improved macOS protection strategies, Microsoft Threat Intelligence has recently identified a new, more sophisticated XCSSET variant targeting macOS.
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If you read this website regularly—or even if this is your first time here—it's almost a given that you use or have used Windows Notepad at some point. It is one of the most basic text editors possible—or at least, it used to be. Microsoft has been slowly bloating it with additional features, some of dubious value...
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Following last month's update which addressed 159 security flaws, Microsoft has released another significant patch, this time fixing 63 vulnerabilities of varying severity (critical, important, moderate, and low). Three critical vulnerabilities requiring user action are CVE-2025-21376, CVE-2025-21379, and...
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Up until very recently, Microsoft detailed how you could go about installing Windows 11 on an older PC that does not meet the operating system's hardware requirements, and specifically the TPM 2.0 requirement. It recommended against going that route, but for those who were adventurous—and comfortable mucking around...
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Millions of Microsoft Defender app users will lose access to its VPN feature, as Microsoft has revealed plans to remove support for this tool on 28 February 2025. While the thought of your privacy being affected may be cause for concern, is there a need to worry? Microsoft has revealed that this shift will enable it...
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It's been four years and four months since Microsoft released Windows 11 to the wild. In the time since, it hasn't exactly ingratiated itself with a majority of users, especially those who are still clinging to Windows 10, but it has been able to capture more than a third of the overall Windows PC market. It also just...
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If you've been waiting for some of Microsoft's Xbox exclusives to finally make their way to Sony's PlayStation 5 console, you're in luck. The ever fun Forza Horizon 5 is headed to the PS5 sometime this springtime, opening up the game to an entirely new group of players. With a stunning open-world design, this game is...
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The Overwatch franchise has been a mainstay in the hero shooter genre, though it has slowly lost a significant portion of its player base and hasn't returned to prominence with Overwatch 2, in part because of some poor management. The landscape has only gotten more difficult with the highly successful release of...
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Microsoft's Xbox console is having a serious introspection moment, questioning its own reason for existence (at least by those in charge of the system). We've grown accustomed to the console wars dating back decades, and the assumption was they'll always continue as such. In a recent interview with Destin on YouTube...
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Malicious actors have a variety of techniques to try and ensnare victims online, one of which is scareware. It entails displaying web pages designed to convince a user that their system has been somehow compromised, but promises to offer a tech support solution that will “fix” the issue. Microsoft is now providing a...
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A lot of gamers are looking forward to the day when Nintendo finally releases its Switch 2 console, especially after it was teased in a first-look showcase trailer earlier this month. Do you know who else is looking forward to the upcoming launch? Phil Spencer, CEO of Microsoft Gaming, who is now on record saying...
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As someone who recently got the Xbox Series X with a 1TB drive, I quickly learned that this storage amount was not enough. With multiple games that have a 100GB and above size requirement, you can quickly fill up the paltry 1TB of built-in storage. Furthermore, access to the excellent Xbox Game Pass means you'll be...
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We're just a few weeks into 2025, or as Microsoft recently called it, the "year of the Windows 11 PC refresh." The comment came in a blog post in which Microsoft made a pitch to rid yourself of your crusty old Windows 10 (or earlier) system and purchase a new PC that supports and runs Windows 11. So color us a little...
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Boss battles can be frustrating, but even more infuriating is when your game console gives up the ghost. I had this happen with an Xbox One X back in the day, and fortunately it was under warranty (and thus easy to have replaced). For those who are not so fortunate, Microsoft announced it is expanding its...
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CES 2025 brought us plenty of GPU tech to be excited about, much of it from NVIDIA. The GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs feature advanced AI tricks, with technologies such as DLSS 4 and neural rendering. Microsoft is also jumping on board the AI train for gaming, with DirectX support for neural rendering confirmed to be...
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