UK charts: Animal Crossing: New Horizons rises to No.1

Next-gen Snapdragon X2 chip rumoured to pack 18 cores and a new CPU architecture, but we’re still waiting for gaming to really be a goer on the original Snapdragon X

Back when Qualcomm first announced the Snapdragon X Arm-based chip for PC, it made big claims about gaming prowess, including supposedly “testing and optimising” the chip with no fewer than 1,200 games. Well, we’re still waiting for gaming on Arm to be a real goer, but apparently Qualcomm already has a follow-up chip coming, the…

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Activision anti-cheat team goes on another victory lap after ‘the strongest beta results in Call of Duty history’, brags ‘99% of matches were cheater-free’ and warns that every day they get ‘faster’

Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat; Black Ops 7 says it’s nailing cheaters, and that’s that. Fresh off a humblebrag earlier in the beta, Activision-Blizzard’s Team Ricochet has returned to provide some more stats on dirty rotten cheaters that, on the surface at least, make for some impressive reading. “We’ve crunched the numbers…

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What if modern PC gaming were just a little more Nintendo? Kazeta, a Linux-based OS, aims to find out with plug ‘n’ play SD ‘carts’ and by going all in on retro simplicity

Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy everything modern PC gaming has to offer—but there’s no use denying I am also a Nintendo girlie. I’m dating myself here, but the company got their hooks in me young with the Game Boy Color, and I’ve had an affectionate respect for cart-based gaming ever since. Enter an OS…

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