Monster Hunter Wilds’ first Elder Dragon is finally landing in December along with some much-needed optimisation focused on reducing the game’s ridiculous load on our poor CPUs

Capcom has revealed when we’ll finally be able to take on our first Elder Dragon in Monster Hunter Wilds during this week’s State of Play Japan, though I’m more interested in the mysterious performance improvements the developer is promising will arrive along with it. Gogmazios was teased back during September’s Tokyo Game Show, in what’s…

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Sony’s new ‘PlayStation’ gaming monitor is a relatively unexciting 27-inch 1440p model but it does have a DualSense charging hook

Sony has announced a new “PlayStation” branded gaming monitor, due out in 2026. It’s a 27-inch model running at 1440p and features a swing-down charging hook for DualSense Playstation controllers. Specs wise, the information Sony has released places the new panel towards the lower end of the mid-tier in a PC gaming monitor context with…

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My new, new favorite deep Windows lore: in 2004 Microsoft got caught shipping Windows XP with audio files made using cracked software

Last week I shared some delightful trivia about Windows’ Bluetooth drivers, which really don’t seem like they should be compatible with the words “delightful trivia.” But they are! Microsoft had to make a carveout in its Bluetooth driver code for a specific mouse—its own Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000, released in 2006—because someone stuck a…

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FromSoft has finally plundered its work from 2012 to put the best Dark Souls boss in Elden Ring Nightreign

We’ve been patiently waiting for FromSoftware to say a single word about its plans for Elden Ring Nightreign’s DLC, which was meant to include new bosses as well as playable characters. Now we’ve seen it: in a surprise trailer during Sony’s Japan-focused State of Play livestream on Tuesday, the studio debuted The Forsaken Hollows, its…

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For the first time since 2012, we’re getting a new Silent Hill, Fatal Frame and Resident Evil within the same six months

We’re reliving the Japanese horror renaissance from the early ’00s, minus all those years of console exclusivity. During today’s Japan-focused State of Play, Koei Tecmo announced that Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly Remake will launch on March 12, 2026. That’s excellent news for the folks who spent 1999 through 2005 jumping between numbered Silent Hill,…

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Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney wades into the Arc Raiders AI voice debate with an imaginary scenario predicting ‘infinite, context-sensitive, personality-reflecting dialog based on and tuned by human voice actors’

Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney has waded into the furor over the use of generative AI for videogame voices, saying the technology presents an “opportunity for in-game voice and voice actors,” with games that could potentially have “infinite, context-sensitive, personality-reflecting dialog based on and tuned by human voice actors.” The exchange began with a comment…

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