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Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord’s nautical-themed War Sails expansion gets a gameplay showcase and spills the release date, and folks, I think we’re onto a winner here

Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord is probably one of the most Fraser games around—a cross between Crusader Kings’ dynastic intrigue and Total War’s eye-watteringly epic battles, with the cherry on top being that you’re commanding your armies within these battles, participating in the bloody scrum. And next month that bloody scrum is taking to the…

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A bizarre bug in the latest Windows 11 update allows endless copies of Task Manager to run in the background and can even impact system performance

As peculiar Windows bugs go, this one is a doozy. It seems Task Manager in the latest October update for Windows 11 (update KB5067036, which is both currently and mercifully optional) is determined to stick around. Like, really determined. As spotted by Windows Latest on X, if you open Task Manager and then close it…

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Monster Hunter Wilds is barely clinging onto Capcom’s top-sellers this year, getting beat out by the likes of Monster Hunter Rise and… Devil May Cry 5, for some reason

Despite being the most-hyped thing at Gamescom last year, topping Steam wishlists and raking in nearly 1.4 million concurrent players shortly after launch, Monster Hunter Wilds is struggling to pull in the sales even compared to its four-year-old predecessor. As reported by Eurogamer, Capcom published its most recent financial report earlier this week covering the…

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Grokipedia claims to be ‘a massive improvement over Wikipedia’ but sure loves to copy its homework

Grokipedia, xAI’sAI-powered online encyclopaedia, is now live. Version 0.1 features an extremely basic white-text-on-a-black-background look and stripped back page layouts, plus more than 885,000 articles. But despite Elon Musk’s recent claim that Grokipedia “will be a massive improvement over Wikipedia,” much of the content seems to have come directly from it (via The Verge). In…

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