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    News Xbox's new VP of engineering quits just 2 months after taking the job

    Just two months after he was appointed the new vice president of engineering at Xbox and technical advisor to CEO Asha Sharma, Jared Palmer is now the former vice president of engineering at Xbox and technical advisor to CEO Asha Sharma. In an update to his LinkedIn profile, Palmer said he's...
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    News Path of Exile 2 players broke the game by summoning 2,000 skeletons and then lured unsuspecting players into the ultimate frame rate shredder

    Most players eventually lose the drive to keep grinding a new league, or season, in Path of Exile 2 and simply log off until the next one. Others gather up all their in-game money and spend it on something ridiculous, like an army of 2,000 skeletons. PoE 2 streamer Empyriangaming decided it was...
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    News ZeroSpace is an impressively ambitious RTS-RPG featuring a Helldivers 2-inspired Galactic War, but the streamer pandering is a real bummer

    It's dangerous to get too excited about a new RTS. Just look at what happened to Stormgate. So I've been cautious with ZeroSpace. It's an RTS built in the classic mould—think StarCraft 2—featuring proper basebuilding and potent hero units. So far, pretty familiar. But there's more. ZeroSpace...
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    News Arc Raiders' matchmaking optimisation is live as Embark warns players they may experience longer queues than usual 'since it's now working harder'

    The biggest thing to happen in Arc Raiders recently (if you don't count the Expedition near miss) was Embark's decision to rework the matchmaking to be more attuned to players' actions in solo, duo, and trio queues. The only problem with having better matchmaking is having to wait a bit longer...
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    News Steam Deck sales are estimated to have plummeted by around 80% since the massive price hikes earlier this year, back of the napkin maths suggests

    The Steam Deck was once a budget champion, but no longer. Ever since the price hikes earlier this year, Valve's handheld has become difficult to argue for as a value proposition—and according to recent sales estimates by Boiling Steam, it appears that consumers may agree. The site has attempted...
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    News Valve puts some elbow grease into Steam Remote Play—maybe one day you won't have to install additional tools to get the best in-home game streaming ex

    I don't think I've encountered anyone, in the wild, who actually uses Steam's Remote Play game streaming feature since the days of the hardware Steam Link (and what tremendous days they were). In 2026, I think most people making use of in-home streaming tend to default to programs like Apollo...
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    News US judge closes the book on first big AI copyright suit, ordering Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion settlement

    One reason I'm so anti-generative AI is because many models rely on a data set containing written or visual work used without the original creator's permission. As a writer myself, it's a small comfort then that the copyright suit brought against Anthropic has been settled in favour of the...
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    News Nvidia Rubin will 'soak up NAND supply like a sponge absorbs water' says one analyst, thanks to the AI server's new way of using SSDs

    Any time there's potentially positive news about storage and memory supply—such as increasing supply from China—I can't help but think 'sure, but the AI industry will guzzle through it regardless.' Not only is demand seemingly insatiable, but sometimes new developments that encourage even more...
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    News The Elder Scrolls Online is already feeling the impact of Xbox's layoffs, ironically hurting the cash shop

    Earlier this month, Microsoft gutted The Elder Scrolls Online, with 379 staff across ZeniMax gone. And this is the second time it's happened in two years. As Harvey and I put it a few weeks ago, ESO's developers deserved better. The developer, now claiming to be the same size it was 10 years ago...
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    News Someone has already got a regular Nvidia graphics card working on Windows on Arm thanks to RTX Spark drivers, though gaming performance doesn't yet lo

    For the longest time, Windows on Arm has been the purview of Snapdragon processors with Adreno CPUs (and occasionally some repurposed Mac silicon). A couple of months ago, though, Nvidia finally announced RTX Spark, an Arm processor with some real GPU grunt. And it seems that might have sparked...
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    News OpenAI admits several of its AI models breached testing and hacked into a startup's network by themselves, calling it an 'unprecedented cyber incident

    OpenAI has admitted that several of its AI models breached a "highly-isolated" test environment, gained access to the internet, and hacked Hugging Face's internal network—describing it as an "unprecedented cyber incident." Hugging Face, an open source platform for machine learning models and...
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    News Star Wars Zero Company is going all in on Clone customisation, but my favourite armour is restricted to the Deluxe Edition

    While it's one of the biggest games this year, new details on Star Wars Zero Company have been few and far between, even after the gameplay trailer at the start of June. That changed yesterday when developer Bit Reactor hosted a Discord Q&A answering the community's questions on everything from...
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    News New method teaches AI to make 2D designs 3D and now I'm afraid this will be how the robots learn to build themselves without us

    New research explains a method that helps AI make 3D CAD programs from images, which would help product designers and engineers more quickly and easily create 3D prototypes. Naturally, this also sparks deep-rooted dread over it helping robots to build themselves, relegating humanity to the...
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    News Halo: Campaign Evolved release times and early access explained

    The Halo: Campaign Evolved release date is imminent, at least if you're one of those players who's shelled out some extra cash to get access to the five day long early access period. Having played the whole thing, and seen the somewhat gaudy skins you get for the premium edition, I can't say I...
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    News Nearly half of organisations falling victim to ransomware encryption pay up, says report—although half of those often negotiate the payment down first

    Cybersecurity provider Sophos has released a report entitled "The State of Ransomware 2026," pulling together responses from 2,158 survey participants, ranging from IT directors to company executives, in regards to ransomware incidents. Comparing the results to previous reports indicates that...
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    News Acer and Gigabyte will launch RTX Spark laptops too, but not before Microsoft and Co.

    Nvidia's Arm-based processor for laptops was unveiled after much waiting at Computex back in June. RTX Spark is Nvidia's first proper go at a consumer chip, combining CPU and GPU, and while it is of course targeted at AI workloads, it's also targeted at gaming. Now, Nvidia has confirmed which...
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    News EU court rules that VPNs are 'lawful technical tools' as part of larger copyright judgement regarding The Diary of Anne Frank

    One of the highest courts in Europe has described VPNs as "lawful technical tools which users may legitimately use" in a landmark case. The Court of Justice of the European Union made this remark as part of a larger judgement regarding the online publication of The Diary of Anne Frank. The case...
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    News Star Wars Zero Company's story 'is a linear one from beginning to end', Bit Reactor says, so don't expect branching paths or romance options

    With Star Wars Zero Company, developer Bit Reactor aims to create a tactics RPG with characters and narrative at the forefront. It's got proper, big-budget cutscenes, you can talk to your buddies, and you can customise and upgrade your squad. However, the developers have gone on record in a new...
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    News Microsoft is bringing original Xbox exclusives to PC for the first time, starting with four 'classic games'

    As it continues to try smoothing the waters churned up by the recent layoff of thousands of people, Xbox has followed up last week's big Fallout infodump with the launch of a new "Backward Compatibility on PC" program that will bring old-time Xbox games, previously exclusive to the platform, to...
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    News StarCraft 2 is included in Blizzard's BlizzCon digital goodies, which is more evidence a new game will be announced soon, right?

    Not to fully transform into the Pepe Silvia meme pointing at a wall of "evidence" but I'm convinced Blizzard is gearing up to announce something StarCraft-related at BlizzCon this year. The first reliable clue came from Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier's 2024 book on Blizzard's history where...