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Free Play Days – Synduality Echo of Ada, Matchpoint Tennis Championships, Ship of Fools and Townscaper

Category: Games September 18, 2025 Free Play Days – Synduality Echo of Ada, Matchpoint Tennis Championships, Ship of Fools and Townscaper Kyle Ocean, Marketing Manager, Xbox Lock in and clear your weekend plans, you’ve got plenty to play with Free Play Days! Synduality Echo of Ada and Matchpoint Tennis Championships are available this weekend for…

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If you’re wondering what those newly announced Intel-Nvidia PC chips might look like, there’s already an Nvidia ‘Superchip’ that could provide the answers

So Intel and Nvidia dropped a CPU-GPU bomb earlier today, announcing a distinctly unexpected plan to collab’ on new computing products based on Intel’s x86 CPUs and Nvidia’s GPUs. Oh, and there’s the minor matter of Nvidia investing $5 billion in Intel. But what will these unholy Intel-Nvidia chips look like? For now, there are…

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Asus ROG says it is ‘actively investigating’ gaming laptop stuttering issues after a user apparently identified a ‘cascade of firmware design failures’

I scour Reddit and support forums pretty regularly, and it’s not exactly rare to see people complaining about systems or peripherals from specific brands. But it’s often difficult to know whether those issues are widespread enough to designate a problem with those devices in particular. It doesn’t seem like that’s the case here, though, as…

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I honestly didn’t think Hello Kitty Island Adventure could get any better, but the Wheatflour Wonderland DLC shows a lot of untapped potential

When I played (and praised) Hello Kitty Island Adventure at its PC launch in January, I quickly noted that it would be a wasted opportunity to not add new areas with more Sanrio characters, on top of the core cast Friendship Island was already home to. After all, there are so many characters in Sanrio’s…

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Casio has unleashed its AI Tribble with ’emotions like a living creature’ on the US and UK, complete with a Mogwai-like warning that you can’t get it too hot, too cold, or too wet

The Casio Moflin is, according to its marketing fluff, a “smart companion powered by AI, with emotions like a living creature.” You can’t fool me, Casio. What you’ve made here is an AI-powered Tribble, and now those of us in the US and the UK can pick one up for $429/£369. The once-Japan-only device is…

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Sam Altman says ChatGPT won’t talk to teens about suicide any more, as bereaved parents testify to the US Senate about what’s going wrong: ‘This is a mental health war, and I really feel like we are losing’

Content warning: This article includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know is having suicidal thoughts, help is available from the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (US), Crisis Services Canada (CA), Samaritans (UK), Lifeline (AUS), and other hotlines. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said in a new blogpost that the company’s main product, the…

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Congress calls Gabe Newell, Twitch and Discord CEOs to testify in wake of Charlie Kirk shooting

Congressman James Comer, chair of the US House Oversight and Government Reform committee (HOGR), yesterday invited Valve president Gabe Newell, Discord CEO Humam Sakhnini, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy, and Reddit CEO Steve Huffman to testify before a HOGR hearing on October 8. The hearing, per a press release from HOGR itself, “will examine the radicalization…

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