I’m sure I’m not the first person to tell you that “Microslop” is rapidly becoming internet vernacular for Microsoft’s Copilot-based, AI efforts. Some would say that the appropriate MS response to this term would be to simply ignore it. However, according to Windows Latest, Microsoft has instead been fighting what looks suspiciously like a losing…

Battlefield Studios updates players on the success of Battlefield 6’s anticheat EA Javelin every so often, with its last report revealing that over 580,000 attempts at cheating were stopped. But some players have queried how the devs would know what percentage of cheaters have been foiled when the most successful perpetrators can’t be found. It’s…

Online multiplayer wasn’t invented in real life until the Peace of Westphalia, but why should that stop determined modders? Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2—2025’s Game of the Year, don’cha know—is looking a whole lot more populous than usual, thanks to some madlad mod-makers who have combined forces to bring a multiplayer mode to 15th-century Bohemia (spotted…

I’m still plugging through World of Warcraft: Midnight‘s story campaign, and I can say for a fact that Blizzard’s continued to improve its storytelling—in particular, I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the “stay a while and listen” conversations. Optional snippets which I’d absolutely encourage you to absorb whenever they come up. Carving my way through the…

It wasn’t too long ago you could pick up a sub-$500 gaming PC or gaming laptop in the yearly sales. Sure, it’d almost certainly be reliant on an iGPU or older tech, and it wouldn’t be the most powerful machine in the world. But thanks to the ongoing memory crisis (and various other supply chain…