Blizzard struggles to balance its Abundance world event in a way that makes anybody happy, with recent potential nerfs making it even more stressful to optimize

I’m still chewing on the thick, juicy slab of meat that is World of Warcraft: Midnight for our review—eagerly awaiting the launch of Season 1 later this week. I am also secretly very glad that I’m not into crafting, because profession-savvy WoW players are having a much worse time than I am. Abundance events are…

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‘C: is not accessible – Access denied’: Windows 11 users locked out of own boot drive on Samsung PCs due to major issue

There’s a lot of spinning plates any operating system needs to manage—but when things go wrong, smashed crockery is often the least of an end user’s concerns. For instance, some Windows 11 users were left considering going full ‘bull in a china shop’ when the OS seemingly locked them out of their own C: drive….

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Bethesda steps in again to calm down hype around Starfield news next week, saying Todd Howard’s EA College Football 26 skills are his ‘only visionary power’

Starfield didn’t quite land as the next big Bethesda game—I mean, it did about as well as you’d expect from any game from the studio, but critical and community response hasn’t signposted the sort of longevity the developer might’ve come to expect from, say, Skyrim. Last week, its composer Inon Zur said that despite this…

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Nvidia’s very keen on you ‘catching the future of real-time rendering’ at this year’s GTC, though I suggest not waiting with bated breath for anything groundbreaking

Every year, Nvidia hosts a three-day event about all things graphics processor-y, called the GPU Technology Conference or GTC, for short. Originally aimed at rendering and GPGPU, the presentations, talks, and demonstrations are now all firmly in the AI camp. However, for 2026, PC gamers might have something to look forward to, because Nvidia says…

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Pulsar X3 CrazyLight Mini review

I was a little resistant to picking up the Pulsar X3 CrazyLight Mini because of the last part of its name: ‘Mini.’ My previous experience with a Mini mouse was with the X2H CrazyLight Mini, and that one did not gel well with my grip style at all. Although that was mostly because the ‘H’…

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The remastered collection of the first Tomb Raider games just got a controversial patch with some truly terrible-looking new outfits: ‘Lara deserves better than this’

It’s rare that a game as old as the venerable Tomb Raider gets an update, and you’d think it’d be cause for celebration. Not necessarily so with the newest patch that came to Tomb Raider I-III Remastered last Thursday, which came bearing a new challenge mode and 10 new outfits that, well, just have a…

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