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Bethesda remembers it made Starfield, promises new 'space gameplay' in back half of random video that doesn't even mention Starfield in the title

But let's be real, it's hard not to feel that Bethesda would be making a lot more noise about Starfield if it had gone down ...

Roblox had more concurrent players than the entirety of Steam over the weekend as it reeled in over 45 million users

Valve's platform was reported to have hit 40 million concurrent users earlier this year after Monster Hunter Wilds drew in ...

After 4,500 hours of testing, SSD controller specialist Phison rules out allegations that a Windows 11 update is bricking drives

In a statement to WCCFTech, Phison said it had, "dedicated over 4,500 cumulative testing hours to the drives reported as potentially impacted and conducted more than 2,200 test cycles. We were unable ...
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Crossword lovers in mourning as the New York Times commits its latest unspeakable act: Paywalling the Mini puzzle

Gaming Industry Out of the blue: How a Quake blog turned PC gaming news site has stayed a haven from 'internet enshittification' for nearly 30 years Card Game Balatro doesn't have microtransactions ...
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Alienware 16 Area-51 review

Gaming Laptops If you'd told me RTX 50-series gaming laptops would deliver the best Prime Day deals I would have laughed in your stupid face. And yet here we are at the end... Gaming Laptops Blinded ...
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We're still feeling aftershocks from Microsoft's destructive July layoffs and cancellations

Gaming Industry Yooka-Laylee developer Playtonic confirms layoffs: 'The landscape is shifting, and with it, so must we' Gaming Industry 'There has to be a better way than this': Game developers call ...
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AMD scales back its CPU cooler bundles, with some older Ryzen models dropping it altogether

Cooling Cooler Master's super stylish Hyper 612 Apex air cooler is a genuine bargain with this 34% discount Cooling I've kept CPUs cool through the summer with the help of these two affordable coolers ...
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Forget trying to cram in Hollow Knight before Silksong launches—it's too good to rush

Action After 30 minutes with Hollow Knight: Silksong, I'm desperate to play another 100 hours of its refined, needle-sharp action Action Why did Team Cherry's devs stay so quiet about Hollow Knight: ...
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We almost got a third-person horror Call of Duty set in Vietnam with 'stuff you've never seen before', but instead we just got more Modern Warfare

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My inner Morrowind sicko is howling over the new game from the Dread Delusion devs, a turn-based RPG where you play a theatre troupe fighting demons

RPG I defeated a bird by talking to it about the Bible in this lo-fi first-person RPG where you're a 19th century daemon summoner RPG This Final Fantasy Tactics-like RPG from former Octopath and ...
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Epic's CEO Tim Sweeney wades in on the UE performance debate: 'The primary reason Unreal Engine 5-based games don't run smoothly on certain PCs or GPUs is the development process'

Graphics Cards Stutters and hitches in Unreal Engine 5 games should become rarer over time due to Epic's continuous updates, but we'll still see them for a while because of the way games are made ...

Final Fantasy 14's Fan Fest dates have players crunching the numbers, and it's left them more nervous than excited

Back to dates and number crunching, though, new FF14 expansions generally manifest around four to six months after the final ...