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WoW’s quest to add variable difficulty to just about everything continues in Midnight patch 12.1’s Mythic world bosses, though there’s a catch

Patch 12.1 is on the horizon, and it looks like we were right—that ominous monologue Zul’jan had during World of Warcraft: Midnight‘s main story quests was absolutely a setup for the next major patch. Curse of Ula’tek is going to take us to The Coiled Isle, where we’ll be digging further into the troubled history…

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This 1986 Japanese adventure game showing up on Steam in 2026 guarantees it makes my GOTY list—you’ve really got to play it

Pasokon Retro is our regular look back at the early years of Japanese PC gaming, encompassing everything from specialist ’80s computers to the happy days of Windows XP. Developer: Bothtec Released: 1986 PCs: MSX, PC-88/98, Sharp X1, X68000, FM-7 (Image credit: D4Enterprise Co.,Ltd.) The contrasting blue/yellow tones often make it look like an optician’s colour…

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The Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest Demo Is Now Live on Steam

Independent games publisher Retroware is excited to announce that the free Steam demo for The Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest is available to download now. The demo offers players their first public hands-on look at the completely rebuilt version of the game — a pixel-perfect homage to Simon’s Quest and Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse — that blends parody, platforming,…

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AMD is said to be holding talks with Samsung about making some of its future chips to offset TSMC’s constrained supply of cutting-edge wafers

AMD and TSMC have enjoyed a very close working relationship ever since the former spun off its chip-making facilities into a separate business in 2008. Its latest Ryzen desktop processors, which comprise two or three chiplets, are made entirely by TSMC, but if one report is to be believed, future CPUs could well be made…

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