Intel’s next-gen Panther Lake mobile chip will be a portable gaming beast with 50% more Xe cores than Lunar Lake, according to the latest shipping manifest leak

Intel’s Lunar Lake mobile chips (shown above) actually have decent gaming chops. Which is why news of a significant graphics upgrade in Intel’s next-gen Panther Lake CPUs is so intriguing. According to a shipping manifest spotted by X user X86deadandback, Panther Lake sports 12 Xe3-spec graphics cores. That’s 50% more than the 8 Xe2 cores…

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A Tyler, The Creator single ‘leak’ turned out to be an AI-generated fake and points to a whole cottage industry in misleading fans of games, music, and movies

As is the case with all good things, the first time I heard the ‘leak’ of Tyler, The Creator’s ‘Don’t Tap the Glass’ was on TikTok. A ‘club banger’ in the style of Avicii or even The Chainsmokers, it’s not only noticeably shallow, but very much unlike anything else by Tyler, The Creator. That’s because…

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Robots and heavy metal should be a match made in music heaven, but this collab in China is as exciting as your grandma moshing to Megadeth on metoprolol

If there’s one common aspect that ties all types of heavy metal together, it’s got to be the sheer energy that it carries. Nothing else quite gets your pulse pumping, neck snapping and bowels banging like high-tempo thrash, grindcore, or a slab of doom metal. Adding the tech coolness of robots to it all should…

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How to get the corrupt mutation in Grow a Garden

Grow a Garden loves rolling out an update with coinciding mutations for each and every crop, and the corrupt mutation is the next one to unlock if you’re making your way through the newest update. But unlike windswept, wet, and moonlit though, the corrupt mutation is slightly more challenging to get for your crops. Fortunately,…

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Xbox is rolling out age verification in the UK with some social features blocked for young users, and no, you can’t use Death Stranding to get around this one

The UK has just recently passed the UK Online Safety Act, and despite almost 400,000 signatures being signed to repeal it, the UK government has stayed firm on its implementation. Discord recently fell in line with this act, requiring age verification for certain servers, but unlike that, Xbox’s new 18+ moderation can’t be worked around…

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Today’s Wordle answer for Tuesday, July 29

Use our hint for today’s Wordle to get Tuesday’s game off to the best possible start, filling your opening line with a supercharged selection of green and yellow letters. Or if not that, at the very least giving you a great idea of where to head next. And don’t even think about worrying if that…

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‘Maybe I’ve directed my last game,’ Dead Space creator Glen Schofield says after being unable to secure funding for his new project: ‘With the industry on pause, AAA feels like it’s a long ways away’

After a long career in videogames that took him from Ren and Stimpy and Rocky and Bullwinkle to Dead Space and The Callisto Protocol (seriously, check his credits), Glen Schofield might have finally reached the end of the line. In a message posted to LinkedIn (via VGC), Schofield said he’d been working on a new…

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