Arc Raiders' next major update will present players with a 'new high-level challenge' with a frozen map and arcs which will 'challenge the ways you've learned to move'

Arc Raiders’ next major update will present players with a ‘new high-level challenge’ with a frozen map and arcs which will ‘challenge the ways you’ve learned to move’

Embark has finally released some solid information on Arc Raiders’ next major update, Frozen Trails. We’ve got details on all the big and small features players can expect to see, including a snowy map, new arcs, new weapons, and more ways in which Embark wishes to improve “the core Arc Raiders experience”. The biggest feature…

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A writer used AI to generate this widely circulated summer reading list which includes fake books, and is published in the Chicago Sun-Times

There’s a reason the mention of AI, particularly in creative spaces, gets a bit of an eyeroll. Actually there’s several. It’s trained on stolen content for starters, robbing real artists and writers of credit and income. Furthermore, it’s often just pretty bad, especially when it comes to factual articles. Language models like ChatGPT are known…

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Data strings in the latest Counter-Strike 2 update hint at two new Valve games, and one of them might just be Half-Life related

A Half-Life fan’s favourite pastime (aside from actually playing Half-Life games) is latching onto the tiniest hope that a new Half-Life might be just around the corner. I say this as one such eternally optimistic Half-Life fan. Which is why I started vibrating with excitement at a single data string hidden in the latest Counter-Strike…

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Microsoft Pulls Plug on Kinect for Windows Sensor

The dedicated PC sensor had become redundant Production of the Kinect for Windows v2 sensor has now ceased. Coming some nine months after the $200 PC-compatible variant of Xbox One’s powerful motion-sensing camera first began shipping, Microsoft says the move is designed to allow it to “consolidate the Kinect for Windows experience around a single…

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Xbox creator becomes first console designer to bake bread using wild yeast illicitly collected from Microsoft campus

A game designer, producer, and director who had a hand in developing games like System Shock, Terra Nova, and Flight Unlimited, Seamus Blackley is best known as the “father of the Xbox” after proposing and spearheading the creation and design of the Microsoft console’s first iteration. Blackley left Microsoft in 2002, but he was recently…

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Dogpile review

Need to Know What is it? A roguelike deckbuilder about melding dogs together.Release date December 10, 2025Expect to pay $10/£8.50Developer Studio Folly, Toot Games, FootPublisher WINGSReviewed on Nvidia Geforce RTX 3080, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAMSteam Deck PlayableLink Official site There are some games that build their entire experience around one ultra-satisfying little moment….

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