Previously borked Ubisoft games are now fixed on Windows 11 24H2 as the troubled update begins automatically downloading to compatible PCs

If you were mid-campaign in one of several Ubisoft titles affected by the Windows 11 24H2 update, before being rudely interrupted, I have some good news for you: Microsoft says the crashing problems are resolved—seemingly due to a plethora of hotfixes deployed by Ubisoft. Star Wars Outlaws, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey,…

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It took a decade for NASA to piece together this 416,592,960 pixel image of the Andromeda galaxy and the key takeaway? ‘Andromeda’s a train wreck’

The Hubble Space Telescope has been snapping pictures of the universe for the best part of 35 years, and now astronomers have completed a magnificent 417-megapixel photomosaic of the Andromeda galaxy. And the key takeaway? It’s a galactic “trainwreck.” The 42,208 by 9,870 pixel panorama features 200 million stars, a mere fraction of the one…

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Aokzoe teases its next-gen handheld gaming PC and it looks like it’s just stuffed a better chip, screen, and battery into its not-bad, not-great A1 Pro

Sometimes you really don’t need to reinvent the wheel when designing a spiffy new product. That seems to be Aokzoe’s approach with its forthcoming A1 X handheld gaming PC, as it looks almost exactly like its current A1 Pro—just with a bigger battery and a nice AMD Ryzen 9 AI HX 370 chip. There’s not…

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Pimax Crystal Light review

I really didn’t like the Pimax Crystal Light the first time I put it on. This headset is clunky and bigger than many of the best VR headsets for gaming right now, and even things like plugging it into its own power outlet and connecting it to the DisplayPort of my PC felt restrictive and…

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Today’s Wordle answer for Monday, January 20

Make sure you take a look at our hint for today’s Wordle if you need a polite poke toward Monday’s winning word, it’ll help you out without spoiling all of your puzzle-solving fun. We’ve got some general tips too if you’d like to give your guessing tactics a quick refresh, as well as the answer…

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I felt goodwill and hope for the future seeing Cyberlich and the Death Cult of Labor, an FPS that’s 60% HUD and looks like an Adult Swim cartoon where you smoke ‘deepweed’ to restore your health and blow clouds that spell out ‘doink’ and ‘loud’

Indie developer Polyhedra Games just has a single 30-second YouTube video and a Steam page showing off its upcoming FPS, Cyberlich and the Death Cult of Labor, but man, does it make an impression. The shooter boasts a knockout cartoony art style and anarchic sense of humor straight out of the classic Adult Swim days⁠—an…

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Bethesda intended Starfield to be more violent, including ‘meat caps’ for beheaded astronauts, but the gore was toned down for technical reasons and because it ‘didn’t fit thematically’

For all this, it’s worth remembering that Starfield is a decent game overall, one that, according to PCG’s mag editor Robert, is significantly more fun now that it supports mods. Indeed, there’s at least one gore mod available for Starfield already, so if the lack of gibs in Bethesda’s sci-fi RPG was ever a problem,…

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