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The Battlefield 6 server browser had my curiosity, but now it has my attention: Battlefield Studios just confirmed that servers spun up in its “Portal browser” can be made persistent. Theoretically, that means the Portal browser will behave like a classic FPS browser, allowing someone to host a “24/7 CAIRO ONLY” server that won’t disappear…

We both feel it. You want to escape. I want to escape. Microsoft’s usurpations have grown too many and too frequent: useless AI in every wazoo, constant upselling on Office 365, the feeling of a gradually tightening noose as more and more apps try to corral you into this or that walled garden—the Microsoft Store,…

Ready for another bleak application of generative AI? I’m not sure I am, but here we are with Gemini’s ‘Nano Banana’. Alright, alright, get it out of your system and let me explain. The aforementioned fun-size fruit is in fact the name of a major update to Gemini’s AI image generation capabilities. The update is…

Back in 2024, as the soulslike difficulty discourse once again reared its silly head, Elden Ring director Hidetaka Miyazaki said FromSoft “could just crank the difficulty down,” but warned that doing so “would break the game itself.” That doesn’t seem to be a concern going the other direction, though, as Bandai Namco says a new…

It seems like only yesterday that Konami announced Bloober Team would be developing the Silent Hill 2 remake, a decision that, while at first questioned by horror fans, soon seemed like the right call once players actually got their hands on the remake. But Bloober Team couldn’t just bask in the success of the Silent…

Turns out, videogame development is a lot like porridge, and it can take a bit of fiddling to get things right. And if you think that doesn’t make sense, you might not be Randy Pitchford, who said something similar in a Future Games interview with the Gearbox boss himself. “With each game, we push boundaries,”…

Echoing George Mallory’s apparent response of “Because it’s there” when asked why he wanted to climb Everest, super-serious overclockers need no reason for pushing hardware into uncharted territory. Armed with years of experience and no small amount of liquid helium, one team of tweakers has pushed what Intel CPUs can reach just that little bit…

We’ve yet to see any 2 nm chips make it into our PCs. Actually, there aren’t many 3 nm chips yet, just Intel’s Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake CPUs. But TSMC is marching on to the next jump in chip tech, and nominally 1.4 nm transistors, by accelerating its plans for new factories that will…

If you’re anything like me, there’s a good chance you have boxes of USB cables, not entirely sure which are USB Type-A, which are USB Type-C, and which even work. I know, I’m a mess, but this isn’t about me. Well, if you need to test a bunch of USBs and don’t want individual tools,…

If you’re over the age of 30, you likely remember the Area 51-M. The progenitor of the gaming laptop I’m looking at today, the Area 51-M is unabashed in its appearance. It curved generously towards its front-facing controls and was offered in a truly garish colourway: fluorescent green. It shouldn’t be appealing, but it is—I…