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Commodore Industries Is Trying To Prevent The Revived Commodore International From Using The Iconic Name

Confused? We are, too. Commodore Industries S.r.l. boss Luigi Simonetti Earlier this year, retro gaming YouTuber Christian “Peri Fractic” Simpson purchased the Commodore brand from a Dutch company, relaunching it with help from many former Commodore employees. Read the full article on timeextension.com Confused? We are, too. Commodore Industries S.r.l. boss Luigi Simonetti Earlier this…

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Veteran game developer Scott Miller explains why it took 3D Realms so long to get PC gaming’s most ambitious but ultimately flawed sci-fi FPS game over the line: ‘Let’s just put all our eggs into the Duke Nukem basket’

Rewind the clock to 2006, and PC gaming was witnessing the launch of one of the most ambitious but ultimately flawed sci-fi FPS games ever—one that had been in development for a whopping 11 years. No, we’re not talking about Duke Nukem Forever, the game that would eventually launch after 14 years of development in…

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OneXPlayer’s new OneXFly Apex uber handheld gaming PC starts at a ridiculous $1,599 when powered by AMD’s top Strix Halo APU and goes all the way to $2,299

OneXPlayer has priced up its epic new OneXFly Apex handheld gaming PC. And the fun starts at a slightly mind-boggling $1,599 when configured with AMD’s top Ryzen AI Max+ APU. Specifically, that’s the Ryzen AI Max+ 395, the only version of AMD’s Strix Halo mobile APU that’s available with all 40 RDNA 3.5-spec graphics compute…

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Counter-Strike 2 has a fancy new feature that makes demo playbacks ‘match the player’s original experience much more closely’

In Counter-Strike 2, milliseconds matter. The tiniest time-slice can be the difference between virtual life and virtual death, so anything you can do to get bullets into braincases faster is likely to provide you an edge. Hence why CS2 lets players review their performance via demo playbacks. Yet because of the way the Internet works,…

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This week, Blizzcon 2026 tickets go on sale almost a year in advance—so what exactly is Blizzard going to bring?

Speaking as a recovering WoW teen, Blizzcon used to have a sort of mystical promise: It was a sort-of yearly showcase for the fantastical otherworlds where I’d spend hundreds of hours watching the intense interpersonal dramas of people chasing their next pair of oversized pauldrons. This week, tickets will go on sale for Blizzcon’s 2026…

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