We Were Here Expeditions: The FriendShip is a Bite-Sized Co-op Puzzle Challenge for Two, Free to Try Now

As Game Pass prices get laughably high, Microsoft is reportedly spinning up a free version of Xbox Cloud Gaming—but of course you’ll have to sit through ads

Earlier this week, Microsoft announced an up to 50% price increase for Xbox Game Pass, offering the compelling value proposition of “What if one month’s access to a new Xbox-published game cost almost a quarter of the price of just buying the damn thing and owning it forever?” Microsoft’s explanation for the price hike was…

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Email Inventor Raymond Tomlinson Dead at 74

R.I.P Ray Tomlinson Ray Tomlinson, the man widely credited with inventing modern day email, passed away over the weekend from what some news outlets (like ZDNet) are reporting as a suspected heart attack (the cause hasn’t been confirmed). He was 74 years old at the time of this death. We take email for granted today,…

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The Outer Worlds 2 has a helmet that makes it look like an arcade game, including an ‘insert coins to continue’ option

Now, let me tell you, The Outer Worlds 2 has some strange gear. After exploring Arcadia’s many moons and space stations, visiting its various merchants and completing quests, I’ve found some weird ass weapons and armor, including, but not limited to: A gun that fires corrosive tumors you can then eat for health. A hammer…

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Balatro creator LocalThunk is throwing his weight around to make sure Blue Prince gets some love at The Game Awards: ‘Geoff my man I better see Blue Prince as a GOTY nominee’

Blue Prince is exceptionally good—”one of the best puzzle games in years,” PC Gamer’s Chris Livingston enthused in his 92% review. And he’s not the only one who thinks so: Balatro creator LocalThunk is so taken by the game that he’s basically demanding Geoff Keighley give it a Game of the Year nomination in the…

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Apple’s new A19 Pro iPhone chip has posted a genuinely astonishing score on Geekbench, and if it was a new gaming CPU we’d all be losing our minds

Apple’s new A19 Pro chip for the iPhone 17 was announced yesterday and the first Geekbench scores have been uploaded. To be quite frank, if this was a new x86 CPU for gaming PCs, we’d be losing our minds. The A19 Pro is scoring nearly 4,000 points in Geekbench 6’s single-thread test. That compares with…

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