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Gamers report a BIOS update is bricking their Legion Go handhelds, and Lenovo is quoting over $250 to fix the issue outside of warranty

Though it’s a chunky handheld gaming PC, we highly rated the original Lenovo Legion Go (though we liked the Legion Go S SteamOS a fair bit more). Unfortunately, owners of the two-year old hardware are now reporting that a recent BIOS update is bricking their handhelds. The BIOS update in question is version N3CN42WW for […]

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Don’t be alarmed if you get an ‘account banned’ message in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 on PS4 or PS5, you may not actually be banned

Though the ports have many technical shortcomings, one issue in particular has been a sticking point, and it is related to the game’s server security. Immediately at launch, players were exposed to the hacks and cheats plaguing the PS3 and Xbox 360 originals, but Activision has been making headway into preventing those exploits from ruining

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Guardians of the Galaxy’s Dave Bautista could take over Kratos role in God of War live-action show, report claims

Sons of Anarchy actor Ryan Hurst had previously been cast in the role but tore a bicep while on set, meaning he wouldn’t be able to resume his physical role until the injury had healed in four-to-six months’ time. Show owner Amazon decided to recast Kratos as a result. Variety reported that Bautista was in

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Gigabyte is launching B550 AM4 motherboards and recommending four-year-old CPUs because the memory crisis is really that bad

You don’t need me to tell you the memory crisis is looking bleak, but, well, the memory crisis is looking bleak. So bleak, in fact, that Gigabyte has just unveiled a new series of AM4 motherboards. Yes, the socket we thought we’d be done with by now. The B550 X Series, as Gigabyte calls it,

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Arctic announces price rollback thanks to a US gov tariff refund, which will continue until ‘every single dollar Arctic received… has been paid back to our customers’

PC cooling company Arctic has secured a tariff refund from the US government. The company isn’t simply content to sit on the cash, though. As a result of the refund, Arctic is rolling back prices on its cooling components for US customers. On top of that, the company has also pledged to put the money

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Xbox’s FanFest world tour is still going ahead, for some reason, even after Microsoft fired the guy who created it

Microsoft trumpeted out tour dates for the Xbox FanFest event yesterday in another of its blog posts pretending everything’s okay at green towers. “The Xbox FanFest Tour is a global, multi-city run of fan-first events built around connection, local community, and the games we love,” the Xbox Wire post read. The event already ran in

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I tried the ‘stress test your GPU hopes you never run’ and it made my main gaming rig look like a chump

It might sound like a cruel joke in a time where memory is costing hundreds of dollars more than it used to, and GPUs are getting price hikes, but there’s a new bit of software called Nukemark that is designed to bring even the best graphics cards to their absolute limits. Nukemark is based in

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I tried the ‘stress test your GPU hopes you never run’ and it made my main gaming rig look like a chump

It might sound like a cruel joke in a time where memory is costing hundreds of dollars more than it used to, and GPUs are getting price hikes, but there’s a new bit of software called Nukemark that is designed to bring even the best graphics cards to their absolute limits. Nukemark is based in

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Microsoft is working on making Xbox 360 games playable on PC, leaked document reveals

More specifically, the intention is for 360 games to work on “Xbox PCs” – which likely refers to any PC that runs the Xbox app. This would include handhelds like the ROG Xbox Ally. The document also says games will run on Project Helix, the next generation Xbox. According to the report, developers will be

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Snap CEO sidesteps Specs preorder questions on Q2 earnings call

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel sidestepped investors’ questions about preorder demand for the company’s long-awaited Specs smart glasses during Monday’s earnings call, just weeks before the device’s September launch event. “What we’re hearing from folks is really that they want to try Specs,” Spiegel told investors. “It’s obviously a high consideration purchase at $2,195. Obviously, developers

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