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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...

Rockstar’s long-awaited PC debut of the original Red Dead Redemption has given many Windows players a reason to celebrate — but a persistent stream of “unable to launch” and crash reports has left a sizable portion of users stranded at the launcher. Community troubleshooting lists (including a...

Microsoft’s Xbox app on Windows 11 has quietly started to act less like a storefront front end and more like a full-fledged PC gaming hub, now testing a “My apps” tab that will surface, download, and launch third‑party apps and rival storefronts from within the Xbox UI itself. Background The...

Microsoft’s Windows ecosystem kept up a steady drumbeat of wins and weirdness this week: a puzzling Game Bar regression that appears to blunt performance on some AMD Ryzen X3D rigs, fresh Windows 11 preview builds pushing more Control Panel settings into Settings, a major Copilot/AI push that...