The ROG Xbox Ally X seems surprisingly repairable and upgradeable judging by iFixit’s teardown video, which could be good news for stick drift

The Asus ROG Xbox Ally X is a peculiar beast: long-anticipated, but trepidatiously so. It’s the best handheld gaming PC in many respects, but not really worth all that money, and while it’s lacking in some key features, it’s apparently easily upgradeable. This last point has come to light thanks to iFixit’s recent disassembly of…

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Wikipedia says it’s getting fewer ‘human pageviews’ thanks to AI and social media but it’s got a plan to deal with it

Whatever your feelings about it, we are heading into a somewhat different digital world thanks to AI. I’m ridiculously resistant to changing my habits, and even I am starting to consider keeping an AI chatbot open rather than Google for quick research. So really, it’s little surprise that Wikipedia is apparently seeing fewer human pageviews…

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Former Battlefield 6 campaign boss calls out EA for leaving him and other developers out of the credits after closing his studio in 2024

Former Bungie longtimer March Lehto, the art director on the original Halo games among others, launched a new studio at Electronic Arts in 2021 called Ridgeline Games, with the express purpose of developing a “narrative campaign” for the next Battlefield game—the recently-released Battlefield 6, as it turned out. Ah, but it didn’t work out: A…

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Estimates on the financial impact of yesterday’s AWS outage range from ‘hundreds of billions’ to over $75 million per hour, but one thing we can all agree on is it was pretty bad, chief

Large parts of the internet are still in a state of recovery today, after yesterday’s AWS outage took out large portions of our beloved world wide web thanks to what appears to be a relatively simple DNS error. Even Fortnite, Roblox and Reddit dealt with significant disruption, a fate worse than death for many of…

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Star Wars Outlaws Lands Another Update On Switch 2, Here Are The Patch Notes

Graphical improvements and *stability*. Star Wars Outlaws, Ubisoft’s excellent open world adventure, has received another update on the Switch 2. This isn’t a huge one, but it contains further improvements to the overall visuals, including upping the quality of the textures – yum. We’ve also got some of that all-important Stability™ alongside some more general…

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Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 lets you unlock 24 fancy outfits, so here’s my entirely objective ranking, as an expert on wearing clothes

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 will let you dress your bloodthirsty undead elder in 24 different outfits. 25, if you count their unflattering corpse pajamas (which I don’t). That’s a lot of outfits. A lot of outfits that desperately need to be ranked. I have worn clothes for more than 40 years. You could…

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Jackbox Party Pack 11 is the first to not include sequels to earlier Jackbox games, but there’s still plenty of familiar DNA in the all-new offerings

Jackbox Games is poised to deliver its 11th Jackbox Party Pack this week, so how are they keeping things fresh after all these years? Well, by literally keeping things fresh: every one of the five games in Jackbox Party Pack 11 is an original. There are no sequels to fan favorites like Drawful or Quiplash…

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