1,465 consecutive days of (mostly) no Silksong news: I spoke to the Sisyphean internet hero that’s kept folks informed, every 24 hours, for 4 whole years

Silksong has rapidly outpaced Elden Ring in terms of the amount of copium—a fun little portmanteau of ‘cope’ and ‘opium’—its fanbase has had to generate to keep its heart pumping after six whole years. A recent developer tweet saw the hive buzzing, but alas, the fanbase has been let down once again. While plumbing the…

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EA announces the guillotine will finally fall on Origin this April thanks to Microsoft’s abandonment of 32-bit Windows and, if you don’t like it, ‘use a newer computer’

A new post from Electronic Arts (EA) with the inauspicious title “Update your operating system for the EA App” tolls the final bell on the ill-fated Origin platform, and may be very bad news for a small subset of gamers. It’s been a bit of a road to get here, but you’ll see why in…

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has now banned 136,000 accounts as part of the ongoing struggle to ensure fair play but still says that IP banning isn’t an option

As with any live service competitive shooter, the developers for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 have their work cut out for them trying to deal with the seemingly never-ending supply of cheaters who keep popping up. So far, a grand total of 136,000 cheaters have been banned. “Instances of cheating in Call of Duty,…

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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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