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Xbox CEO Says The Company Needs To Be Making ‘Hard Choices’

The drip-feed out of Xbox's attempted turnaround continues

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How to Get the Free Typical Gamer Back Bling in Fortnite

Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 2 is approaching its final week and with it comes the final update. While heading into the weekend, players are able to get free rewards for Community Day, but before then, players can also get a free Back Bling by completing Typical Gamer's secret quest. This will task players with emoting at...

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"Stay on target": Helldivers 2 gets a big performance patch with upscaler support, but it isn't working brilliantly for everybody

Helldivers 2 has a new update that aims to improve the extraction shooter's performance, a source of some woe lately among Super Earth's democracy-managers. It introduces support for upscalers – specifically, FSR 3.1.5 (with FSR 4.0.3 for certain GPUs), DLSS 4.5 and XeSS 3.0 - together with variable rate shading...

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Sonic Co-Creator Wanted GameCube Game To Be Called Billy Hatcher And The Giant Cock

That's a very, very different game

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Cooler Master and G.Skill team up to bring you actively cooled DRAM kits, answering that incredibly distant call for even more expensive memory

Prise open any random gaming PC, and you'll be greeted with the common sight of a big cooler on the CPU and GPU, replete with multiple fans and maybe even a coolant loop. But when it comes to the DRAM sticks, you'll just mostly see a few pieces of metal for a heatsink. Enter stage left, Cooler Master and G.Skill, with...

1 week ago 👁 4
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Starcraft 2 Receives Game-Changing Update After A Decade

In what's become a week of developers updating decade-old games—CD Projekt Red just announced a major expansion for The Witcher 3, set to release next year—Blizzard has released a major patch for its 16-year-old RTS Starcraft 2.

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Counter-Strike's co-creator isn't worried about low player counts: "Those people are never going to play your game."

It's difficult to avoid the ongoing discourse surrounding concurrent player numbers on Steam. Hell, we're guilty of it ourselves. It's understandable why so many people are so fixated on this metric; it's one of the only numerical ways to identify how successful a game launch has been, after all. For indie developer Mi...

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Deadlock's Urn chaos continues as Valve steps in again following tournament drama

It happened again. A new Deadlock update continues Valve's Soul Urn experiment, and this time it was a competitive tournament match that brought the MOBA's current balance concerns back into the spotlight. A showdown between Floormen and Melee Creeps in the NA finals of this week's Deadlock Night Shift was thrown off c...

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All Watch Choices in 007 First Light

Q-Watch is one of the most essential pieces of equipment in 007 First Light that will assist James in his tactical hacking needs. At the start of the game, James visits the Q-Lab, where he's given a choice to pick one of seven variants of the Q-Watch from the box. The one James picks at this moment will stick with him...

1 week ago 👁 4
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The Internet Reacts To Mass Exodus Of Bret Michaels And Others From Trump’s ‘Freedom 250’ Concert Series

Bret Michaels, Martina McBride, and Young MC are among the acts who say they were misled about the nature of the show

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Promises 'Grounded' Cosmetics and Collaborations

After officially revealing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, Infinity Ward addresses the elephant in the room by confirming how the studio plans to handle future cosmetics and collaboration after the game launches. For most online shooters these days, especially in the case of big franchises like Battlefield and Call of...

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"This market is not behaving normally" - analysts react to Valve's Steam Deck price increases, and what it means for the cost of the upcoming Steam Machine

Earlier this week, Valve announced a steep price increase for its Steam Deck OLED models. In the UK, would-be-buyers saw a rise of over £200 for the company's chunkier 1TB Steam Deck OLED model, which increased from £569 to £779. Its lower-tier 512GB Steam Deck OLED model, meanwhile, increased by &pou...

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