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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 will very soon offer three different matchmaking systems, and you’d be right to be confused

“Over the past year, we’ve continued to learn a lot about multiplayer matchmaking through player data and community feedback,” the announcement said. “We’re also excited to see all the recent love for Black Ops and Black Ops 2, which reinforced that there are many elements of those experiences that players appreciate.” As such, Black Ops […]

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Lick your way to victory with the Mouth Pad, a Bluetooth device that lets you control your PC with just your tongue

PC gaming isn’t always the most inclusive space. Besides the high price of everything from components to games, standard gaming peripherals such as a keyboard and mouse can exclude lots of folks with limited mobility. An expanding array of assistive devices is attempting to bridge that gap. Augmental describes itself as a company specialising in

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“The smallest severance pay possible” – Bethesda union vows to fight as studio employees reel from “bare minimum” payout following mass Xbox layoffs

That’s according to Bethesda workers union OneBGS, which made the claim on social media Bethesda reportedly notified employees in Montréal of their termination on 17th July, detailing an exit package OneBGS calls “the smallest severance legally possible without bargaining with the union.” The union also claims this contradicts what employees were told in a video

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After its Baldur’s Gate 3-era splurge, Hasbro is scaling back its gaming ambitions following $56m loss, but Warlock and Mass Effect-like Exodus are safe

News by Sherif Saed Senior Contributor Published on July 23, 2026 Follow Exodus (2027) Hasbro, the parent company of Dungeons and Dragons owner Wizards of the Coast, is seemingly scaling back its video game ambitions. The company, which had initiated a plan in 2022 to become a major publisher, has already cancelled several of its

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Fresh evidence from independent researchers confirms the first drop in PC shipments in over a year… and it’s only going to get worse

New research from Counterpoint corroborates that the PC market has finally been impacted by the memory crisis to the extent that global shipments have gone down for the first time since the first quarter of 2025. In the second quarter this year there were 4% fewer global PC shipments than the same time last year.

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Indie game contest tasks devs with fitting their entire game on to a 1.44 MB floppy disk

1,474,560 bytes may sound like a lot for those unfamiliar with the realities of modern data storage, but it amounts to a single 3.5-inch floppy disk. The hey-day of such a relic of physical media has long since passed, but floppy disks obviously still hold a certain allure for some judging by a certain Korean

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‘Far beyond anything we had predicted’: Framework says its supplier’s memory prices are ‘more than double’ its previous shipment

Over the last few months, Framework has been doing a pretty good job of keeping RAM prices for its modular laptops/mainboards/desktops from climbing too high as a result of the global memory shortage, though storage hasn’t fared quite so well. And now, RAM unfortunately isn’t faring so well, either. The company explains in its monthly

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Xbox version of Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game delayed by over a month, less than 24 hours before launch

For Xbox players keen to jump in later today, they’ll have to wait a while longer. According to PM Studios they have been “forced” to delay the release to the 3rd September. This is due to “unforeseen circumstances on a backend feature.” Xbox players will not have their pre-orders cancelled automatically, and will have to

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Stalker 2 developer refutes claims by studio founder that Xbox paid more than game’s development cost to make it exclusive

According to Grygorovych, Microsoft paid the Ukrainian studio more than it cost to develop the game in order to release it on Xbox, and not PlayStation. “It paid for itself before the first day,” Grygorovych said, via machine translation. GSC has now itself responded to those claims, saying they don’t paint an accurate picture. In

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Someone has already got a regular Nvidia graphics card working on Windows on Arm thanks to RTX Spark drivers, though gaming performance doesn’t yet look ideal

For the longest time, Windows on Arm has been the purview of Snapdragon processors with Adreno CPUs (and occasionally some repurposed Mac silicon). A couple of months ago, though, Nvidia finally announced RTX Spark, an Arm processor with some real GPU grunt. And it seems that might have sparked (sorry) the onset of being able

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