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With vapor-chamber cooling, ray-tracing, tensor cores and a high-refresh screen, the iPhone 17 Pro sounds like a premium gaming PC, but I’ll stick with my trusty old Steam Deck, thanks

And lo, on the ninth day of the ninth month in the 2025th year, verily did Apple unveil the 17th coming of the hallowed iPhone. Yup, there’s yet another iPhone out, the iPhone 17 Pro, and if the numbering scheme isn’t flirting with satire, the extent to which Apple’s latest iPhone resembles a gaming PC…

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Borderlands 4 now has updated minimum system requirements for an eight-core ‘or equivalent’ CPU, which leaves six-core CPU owners none the wiser

Roughly two months ago we got our first look at the system requirements for Borderlands 4, a process that involved many of us on the hardware team scrunching up our noses. Listed on the Steam page was the insistence that the game would require eight CPU cores as a minimum, which seemed highly unlikely given…

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Announcing PlayStation Family App for parental controls and family management

At Sony Interactive Entertainment, we’re committed to providing safe play for gamers of all ages, including enhancing ways for parents to manage their children’s gaming experience. This includes the current parental control features available on the PS5 and PS4 console, such as playtime settings and age restriction settings for games. Today, we’re pleased to announce…

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Gaming Communities: From Arcades to Apps

Gaming communities once lived in arcades, spaces filled with the steady hum of CRT monitors and the familiar clink of quarters. Players formed rivalries around high score leaderboards and built friendships in the warm glow of cabinet screens. While those neon-lit halls are less common today, the drive to connect has never disappeared. It has…

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Assassin’s Creed Shadows: What To Know Before the Claws of Awaji Expansion

Category: Games September 10, 2025 Assassin’s Creed Shadows: What To Know Before the Claws of Awaji Expansion Lucy O’Brien, Director of Editorial Communications, Ubisoft Summary Assassin’s Creed Shadows expansion Claws of Awaji launches September 16. The expansion follows on from the story of Naoe and Yasuke, and introduces over 10 hours of brand-new content. Here’s…

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In tribute to a player’s departed baby son, Old School RuneScape players turn out in ‘hundreds’ to pay respects to his namesake: ‘It was so overwhelming seeing so many people at Zeke’s shop’

MMOs tend to function, more or less, as enormous mechanisms for competition. PvP, being the first to a particular raid, pulling off troubling works of deception in EVE Online—this is what I associate with the phrase ‘massively multiplayer’. But sometimes, the stars align and players come together to do something truly nice for each other….

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