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An imagined canyon in the Peruvian Andes, a phantom Eiffel Tower in Beijing and a stranded couple waiting for a ropeway that never ran: recent reporting shows that letting generative AI plan a trip can produce more than awkward suggestions — it can be actively dangerous, confusing and expensive...

Battlefield 6 arrived to fanfare and queue screens: the core multiplayer, classic class roles, and dramatic environmental destruction are back — but the launch has also been accompanied by a long list of technical problems, entitlement failures, progression bugs, and matchmaking instability that...

Activision says the Black Ops 7 beta delivered a meaningful drop in cheating, with Team RICOCHET reporting that nearly 99% of matches were cheater‑free by the end of the beta — a result the company frames as the strongest beta anti‑cheat performance in Call of Duty history. Background Call of...

Battlefield 6’s launch reviews paint a clear — and optimistic — picture: critics broadly like the multiplayer, many call it a return to form for the franchise, and aggregate scores sit firmly in the “generally favorable” range, but the single‑player campaign is a consistent weak point that could...

Battlefield 6 arrives on October 10, 2025, riding the highest pre‑launch wave the franchise has seen in years — a blockbuster open beta that drew hundreds of thousands of concurrent players on Steam — and with that excitement comes the same hard questions the series has faced after several...

Activision’s anti‑cheat team says the Black Ops 7 beta delivered an order‑of‑magnitude improvement in match integrity — and if the early numbers hold, players may finally see the kind of cheater‑free experience the franchise has struggled to provide in recent years. Background / Overview Call of...

Treyarch has given players one more reason to keep their controllers charged and their killstreaks ready: this week’s Black Ops 7 beta has become a live laboratory for rapid changes, community-driven adjustments, and a high-profile anti-cheat stress test — and while one outlet reported the open...

Battlefield 6’s arrival on October 10 is the headline grabber in a packed week for Xbox releases, but the story this week is bigger than one marquee shooter: it’s about how modern AAA launches balance technical ambition, platform economics, and the growing pains of anti-cheat and subscription...

The Black Ops 7 beta has arrived, and with it a predictable mix of excitement, server strain, and a roster of bugs that range from minor display glitches to game‑blocking entitlement errors — this feature unpacks what’s broken, what’s been confirmed by developers, and what practical steps...

Electronic Arts and DICE have locked in a single, global drop for Battlefield 6: the game goes live on October 10, 2025, with a coordinated worldwide unlock that puts the full game into players’ hands at 8:00 a.m. Pacific / 11:00 a.m. Eastern (local conversions for other regions are provided...

Call of Duty: NEXT ripped the curtain back on Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 with a packed showcase that confirmed maps, modes, movement changes, Zombies content, Warzone integration, and the beta schedule — and it did so while doubling down on hardware-level anti-cheat enforcement that will reshape...

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 will block non‑compliant PCs at launch if they don’t meet Activision’s updated RICOCHET anti‑cheat prerequisites — most notably an active TPM 2.0 and UEFI Secure Boot — and there’s a narrow window to prepare legacy systems before the November 14, 2025 launch...

Valve has quietly added a small but consequential check to the Steam client on Windows: the Steam beta now reports whether a machine’s Secure Boot is enabled and whether a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is present and which version it exposes — surfacing firmware-level compatibility details that...

Valve has quietly added a small but consequential check to the Steam client on Windows: the Steam beta now reports whether a PC has Secure Boot enabled and whether a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is present and which version it exposes, surfacing firmware‑level compatibility details that have...

Valve's Steam beta now surfaces whether your PC has Secure Boot and TPM enabled, making it trivial for gamers to see if their system will pass the new breed of anti‑cheat checks that many publishers are rolling out. The status shows up under Help → System Information in the Steam client (look...

Valve is preparing to stop supporting 32‑bit editions of Windows — specifically Windows 10 (32‑bit) — on January 1, 2026, a move that will end official Steam client updates and platform support for the tiny fraction of Steam users still running a 32‑bit Windows host. Background Windows 10...

Microsoft’s console-first pivot for small screens lands in a surprisingly usable form, and testing Windows 11’s new Handheld Gaming Mode on an OG ROG Ally shows both what’s changed and what still needs work for real-world handheld PC owners. Background / Overview Windows 11’s new Handheld Gaming...

Microsoft’s Xbox PC app has quietly shed the role of a one‑trick Game Pass storefront and evolved into a genuine, controller‑friendly hub that now aggregates your installed Windows games across multiple launchers — Steam, Epic Games Store, GOG, Battle.net and Microsoft’s own libraries — and...

Microsoft’s Xbox app on Windows 11 has quietly evolved from a Game Pass storefront into a genuine, controller-friendly gaming hub capable of listing and launching installed titles from Steam, Epic, GOG, Battle.net and more — and the company is now rolling key pieces of that work out to wider...

Microsoft has quietly reworked the Xbox app on Windows 11 into a genuine one‑stop hub for PC gaming, and the implications reach well beyond a refreshed launcher: the app now aggregates installed titles from multiple storefronts, lets you launch non‑Microsoft games without opening third‑party...