The ultimate PC gaming holiday gift guide — 18 best gifts for gamers starting at $11

Have a larger budget of around $100? You can land a great new gaming keyboard from HyperX, a new gaming headset from ...

Why Dell’s design choices matter: the often-overlooked details that make your laptop last longer

Because Dell designs its laptops from the ground up for the latest processors and other performance hardware, you can rest ...

Could Death Stranding 2 ever come to Xbox? A recent PC rating for Hideo Kojima's sequel makes it a far more realistic possibility

Death Stranding 2’s new PC rating arrives earlier than expected, setting up a much faster path to PC and potentially Xbox compared to the first game’s rollout.
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Epic CEO slams Valve’s AI rules — says they fuel “cancel campaigns” and “review bombing”

Tim Sweeney questions Steam’s AI tagging rules, warning that the policy could hurt smaller studios and contribute to review bombing.
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I'm re-reviewing the Xbox Ally after a month of daily use — Everything I love, desperately want fixed, and why it really is an Xbox

Handheld Gaming PC Here's how to get Xbox Full Screen Experience on your handheld Handheld Gaming PC Here's how the new Xbox Ally compares to Steam Deck Handheld Gaming PC Xbox Ally X vs Legion Go 2 — ...
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The Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 campaign has some ridiculous limitations — I can't believe the devs released it like this

The time for the annual Call of Duty release has come around once again, and sure enough, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is available now across Xbox, PC, and PlayStation. The new FPS is expected to stand ...
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Microsoft launches AI agent to outperform OpenAI's GPT-4o — running locally on your PC with built-in human intervention triggers

This 7-billion-parameter model runs on relatively small systems with lower latency and better privacy. What's more, the model doesn't depend on cloud-based models, making it more reliable, private, ...
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Windows president addresses current state of Windows 11 after AI backlash — "We know we have a lot of work to do"

Davuluri has since disabled replies on his original post that mentioned Windows becoming an agentic OS, which some people viewed as an attempt to shut out negative feedback. However, Davuluri's latest ...
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The Steam Machine will face the same anti-cheat woes as the Steam Deck — but will it ever get better?

Anti-cheat is not a blanket exclusion on SteamOS, but in some of the biggest multiplayer titles on the planet, it very much is. It's because these systems are built for Windows, more specifically, to ...
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's Endgame has had its biggest issue fixed in a major win for players

The latest patch notes for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 now describe a snapshot feature that has been added to record a player's Combat Rating at the start of the match. Should players disconnect, ...
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Boeing is now using Microsoft's $70 flight simulator game to train actual pilots — 'Virtual Airplane' is powered by MSFS, legitimizing my unhealthy gameplay hours

Xbox ID@Xbox's Chris Charla on Microsoft's indie game publishing — "We take that feedback to heart." ...
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Microsoft's AI Chief, Mustafa Suleyman, says "it's crazy to actually declare" that superintelligence will replace our species

OpenAI might have just given Microsoft the keys to the generative AI kingdom after signing a new definitive agreement that allows the software giant to pursue AGI (artificial general intelligence) ...