China made a breakthrough in its space program with the successful capture of a Long March 10B rocket booster.
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Faces of Death is finally streaming on Shudder. Here's why Daniel Goldhaber's smart, bloody slasher is one of 2026's best horror movies.
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The latest glasses from Xreal are designed to appeal to gamers and movie-watchers who want a big screen wherever they are.
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While fully loaded models are quite pricey, the HP OmniBook Ultra is hard to beat for those in the market for a premium Windows ultraportable.
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Coming soon to Switch 2. Square Enix has just released a new patch for The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales on Steam, with a promise to bring it to consoles in the near future. There isn't a great deal to go through here, but one of the key improvements includes a new option to disable the voice support completely. This has proven to be a major bugbear with players since the game's launch, so it's nice to see Square Enix take the feedback on board.
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Meta has been warned by the European Commission that its endlessly scrolling Facebook and Instagram feeds may violate the EU's new Digital Services Act rules. In preliminary findings published on Friday, the Commission said that its investigation into features such as infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and highly personalized recommender systems, found that Meta "did not adequately assess the risks of their addictive design on the physical and mental wellbeing of users, including min...
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Xbox's strategy of investing heavily into its biggest franchises seems like a plan destined to backfire
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Yarr, ye not be needin' to shell out for the more expensive editions of Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced or its day one DLCs if you want to have "the full, complete experience". So developers Ubisoft have said in response to Steam reviews giving the Black Flag remake a thumbs down because it has a bunch of purchasable extras on sale right out of port.
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"Steam Support went way above and beyond."
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OpenAI says it is shuttering its ChatGPT Atlas browser. When it was released last October, the company said the agentic browser was designed around the question "What if you could chat with your web browser?" The query was at least novel, but the answer was apparently not all that compelling. As part of a slew of ChatGPT Work-related announcements on Thursday, OpenAI confirmed plans to "sunset" Atlas, with deprecation scheduled for August 9. Tags: ChatGPT, OpenAIThis article, "OpenAI's ChatGPT A...
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The European Commission says Facebook's and Instagram's addictive designs violate the Digital Services Act.
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Though there are only four games as of right now.
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Smooth, snappy, and surprisingly well-priced for a high refresh panel.
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A new report details how games in retail stores are almost always significantly cheaper to purchase than on a first party store, forecasting a grim future for game prices.
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Fixed in record timing.
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John Carmack, the co-founder of legendary Doom and Quake developer id Software, has shared his thoughts on the reported "bloodbath" of layoffs at his former studio, following Xbox's devastating "restructuring".
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This 'Fantastic' combo can end Magic games by turn 6, and won't cost a lot to put together.
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OTT? Nah. Remember the original trailer for Pokémon Go? Well if not, go ahead and refresh yourself, it's right above. Released on 10th September 2015, it ended with a pretty ambitious fantasy in which a whole bunch of players descended onto Times Square, New York to take on Mewtwo. Well, it's a fantasy no more. As covered by VGC, Pokémon GO celebrated its 10th anniversary by recreating the end of the trailer, taking over a bunch of billboards in Times Square and inviting hundreds of players to c...
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Aw shucks. That's a bummer. I'm not angry about it, though. Surely this had to happen, just like the execs said it did. I'm paraphrasing quite facetiously, but that is the basic gist of id Software co-founder John Carmack's reaction to the studio cutting 136 workers as part of Microsoft's mass layoffs earlier this week, a devastating blow that leaves the Doom developers facing an uncertain future.
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"We need to show management right now that we mean business."
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Microsoft pledged to be carbon negative by 2030, but its AI push has wrecked its goal.
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Apple has significantly lowered its demand expectations for the standard iPhone 17 because of rising hardware costs, a Chinese leaker claimed today. According to the account "Fixed Focus Digital" on Weibo, some production lines for the standard iPhone 17 this week shifted from an earlier 15 percent reduction to plans to suspend roughly one-third of their capacity. The leaker also claimed Apple has made a "very serious" internal assessment of the impact that higher hardware costs could have on de...
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A full single-player expansion is command to the great RTS game Tempest Rising. Titled The Veti's Wrath, you'll get some explosive new missions to play
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Here's hoping the swap to 2 nm is huge.
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We’ve known for ages that the Steam Machine has a similar game compatibility rating system to the Steam Deck, wherein Valve tests games and slaps them with a Verified, Playable, or Unsupported sticker depending on how much they play technical ball. For the first fortnight and change of the Machine’s release, though, the results of these tests haven’t been visible – alongside the Deck verification info – on those games’ Steam store pages.
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Transport Fever 3 developers Urban Games along with their new publisher Paradox Interactive released a new First Look showcase of new Features and Vehicles
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There are two types of Assassin's Creed games: the old stealthy games, and the new open-world RPGs. Here are 5 games like the old era of AC games.
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Last night Pokémon Go celebrated its 10th anniversary by fulfilling the final promise of the game's original trailer: giving players the chance to battle Mewtwo in Times Square.
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Apple's battery supplier has registered two new battery cells believed to be destined for the company's rumored foldable iPhone, according to a prolific Chinese leaker. In a post on Weibo, the leaker known as Digital Chat Station said that the two cells have rated capacities of 1,921mAh and 2,962mAh, for a combined minimum rated capacity of 4,883mAh. "The supply chain is also predicting a total battery capacity of 4,800–5,000mAh, though this still needs further confirmation," the leaker added. I...
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The remake of Assassin's Creed Black Flag, Resynced, is off to a flying start. Before it even launched, the game was already on track to out-perform,Assassin's Creed Shadows, pulling in "roughly $14m in gross revenue" for publisher Ubisoft. Not bad!
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You've heard about Microsoft's mass layoffs by now. The last few days have been filled with stories of how these cuts are affecting different studios both still and formerly owned by Xbox, with even Elder Scrolls 6 developers Bethesda not being spared, regardless of that series being one their corporate overlords are determined to squeeze more out of going forwards. Thankfully, those overlords are reciving some pushback, with unionised Bethesda staff planning protest rallies and a modder using t...
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After spearheading a restructuring of Xbox that resulted in 3200 job losses, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has been asked to be an advisor to the US Federal Reserve for Productivity and Jobs, where she will seemingly lead a task force related to, ironically, employment.
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