Blizzard struggles to balance its Abundance world event in a way that makes anybody happy, with recent potential nerfs making it even more stressful to optimize

I’m still chewing on the thick, juicy slab of meat that is World of Warcraft: Midnight for our review—eagerly awaiting the launch of Season 1 later this week. I am also secretly very glad that I’m not into crafting, because profession-savvy WoW players are having a much worse time than I am. Abundance events are…

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‘C: is not accessible – Access denied’: Windows 11 users locked out of own boot drive on Samsung PCs due to major issue

There’s a lot of spinning plates any operating system needs to manage—but when things go wrong, smashed crockery is often the least of an end user’s concerns. For instance, some Windows 11 users were left considering going full ‘bull in a china shop’ when the OS seemingly locked them out of their own C: drive….

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Bethesda steps in again to calm down hype around Starfield news next week, saying Todd Howard’s EA College Football 26 skills are his ‘only visionary power’

Starfield didn’t quite land as the next big Bethesda game—I mean, it did about as well as you’d expect from any game from the studio, but critical and community response hasn’t signposted the sort of longevity the developer might’ve come to expect from, say, Skyrim. Last week, its composer Inon Zur said that despite this…

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This Super Mario 64 Footage May Not Look Like Much, But Marks A “Huge” Change For GameCube Devs

The GameCube is officially joining the “KallistiOS ecosystem”. The Sega Dreamcast homebrew community has been going from strength to strength in recent years, and it now looks like the Nintendo GameCube community could soon be joining it. That’s because the systems engineer and Dreamcast/GameCube enthusiast Eric Fradella has now successfully ported the Dreamcast homebrew software…

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Nvidia’s very keen on you ‘catching the future of real-time rendering’ at this year’s GTC, though I suggest not waiting with bated breath for anything groundbreaking

Every year, Nvidia hosts a three-day event about all things graphics processor-y, called the GPU Technology Conference or GTC, for short. Originally aimed at rendering and GPGPU, the presentations, talks, and demonstrations are now all firmly in the AI camp. However, for 2026, PC gamers might have something to look forward to, because Nvidia says…

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