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Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered reintroduces one of the franchise’s most beloved arcade racers with contemporary polish—updated textures, cross-platform multiplayer via Autolog, and all previously released DLC bundled into a single package—while also surfacing the practical trade-offs...

Square Enix has confirmed that the multiplayer murder-mystery action game KILLER INN will return for a second Closed Beta Test on Steam from Friday, October 3, 2025 at 3:00 p.m. PDT / 6:00 p.m. EDT through Monday, October 13, 2025 at 2:59 p.m. PDT / 5:59 p.m. EDT, inviting players to test...

Square Enix and TBS Games have confirmed that KILLER INN — the multiplayer murder‑mystery action game first announced at Summer Game Fest — will host a second closed beta on PC via Steam from October 3, 2025 at 3:00 p.m. PDT / 6:00 p.m. EDT through October 13, 2025 at 2:59 p.m. PDT / 5:59 p.m...

Modern PC shooters are raising the bar: several recent AAA titles now refuse to run on Windows 10 unless Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 are enabled, forcing many players to move from legacy BIOS/MBR setups to a UEFI/GPT configuration before they can even launch the game. Background / Overview The...

Sony’s Helldivers 2 has crashed Xbox’s best‑seller list and — for a brief, loud moment — is outselling Microsoft’s own heavyweights on the Xbox storefront, an unusual reversal that speaks to how cross‑platform releases and live‑service economics are reshaping console competition today. The...

WWE 2K25 arrives as the most ambitious—and most controversial—entry in the long-running WWE 2K franchise, promising a record-breaking roster of playable Superstars and Legends, a first-of-its-kind documentary-style 2K Showcase: The Bloodline’s Dynasty narrated by Paul Heyman, a unified MyRISE...

Windows 11 gives enthusiasts a stronger baseline, but a Virtual Private Network (VPN) remains the most practical way to extend that protection across networks, locations, and services—turning a secure machine into a truly private and travel‑ready workspace. Overview Microsoft has repeatedly...

Sony appears to be widening its PC support for PlayStation audio gear: a newly reported PlayStation Link PC Driver for Windows — said to support the PULSE Elite headset and PULSE Explore earbuds — would let PC users update firmware and tune audio without needing a PS5, while September’s...

Wine’s bi-weekly development stream delivered another incremental but meaningful update this week with the release of Wine 10.14, bringing an upgraded graphics stack, an updated Mono engine, networking improvements, CI infrastructure changes, and a tranche of pragmatic bug fixes that will matter...

Microsoft's latest Windows 11 update brings a long‑awaited fix for muffled Bluetooth headset audio: support for Bluetooth LE Audio's super‑wideband stereo, letting game audio remain high‑fidelity while voice chat or calls run at a much higher sample rate than the old Hands‑Free Profile allowed...

Samsung and Microsoft have agreed to bring Microsoft Copilot — the company’s generative AI assistant — to Samsung’s 2025 TVs and Smart Monitors, folding natural‑language AI into large displays via Samsung’s new Vision AI framework and a Copilot web experience built into the screens. This move...

Microsoft says the next big leap for Windows audio isn't another sound driver tweak — it's a wholesale move to Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) Audio that promises high-fidelity, stereo playback while keeping a working microphone — a scenario that Classic Bluetooth technology has long struggled to...

Microsoft’s on-stage Copilot demo — which showed the assistant watching a PC screen while narrating how to craft a sword in Minecraft — is shorthand for a much larger push: Microsoft is bringing a multi‑modal, voice‑enabled Copilot into the Windows gaming experience via the Game Bar, and the...

Want Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl to look its absolute best? Enabling HDR can dramatically improve contrast, color depth, and highlight detail — but on Windows this feature is a chain-of-trust that requires the OS, GPU driver, monitor, cable, and the game itself to agree. This step‑by‑step...

HDR gaming can be a dramatic upgrade for many players — richer highlights, deeper blacks, and colors that finally look like what the developers intended — but whether it actually improves your experience depends on your hardware, your patience for calibration, and how each game implements HDR...

Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge are no longer just browsers—they’re sprawling platforms where AI, privacy controls, and even gaming features are being used as battlegrounds to win users’ attention and loyalty. Background / Overview The modern browser fight is about more than page-load times and...

Microsoft has begun testing a new “My apps” tab inside the Xbox app for Windows 11 that lets Xbox Insiders install, launch and — in some cases — download third‑party apps and rival storefronts from a single, controller‑friendly launcher aimed at making the Xbox app the central hub for PC gaming...

Microsoft has begun testing a new “My apps” tab inside the Xbox app for Windows 11 that lets Xbox Insiders install, launch and — in some cases — download third‑party apps and rival storefronts from a single, controller‑friendly launcher designed especially for handheld Windows gaming devices...

Canonical’s third point release for Noble Numbat arrives at a timely moment for PC builders and IT admins who want stability without sacrificing new hardware support: Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS is out with a refreshed installation image, a backported Linux 6.14 hardware enablement kernel, and the Mesa...

Title: Microsoft’s new “My Apps” tab in the Xbox app for Windows: what it changes for handheld PCs and every PC gamer TL;DR What it is: “My Apps” is a new tab inside the Xbox app for Windows that aggregates third‑party gaming apps and utilities in one controller‑friendly place. Think...