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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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Indie game bundle saving buyers over $1,000 in support of laid off developers has raised over $100,000 in three days

This bundle, which you can find on itch.io here, was created to contribute funds to the Game Industry hardship fund. This fund, formed by the CWA video game union in July, provides financial relief to North American developers who have been caught up in the years-long deluge of layoffs. The bundle contains 127 games which

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Big Walk review

What is Big Walk, exactly? It’s a simple game, really, but explaining what’s special about it is a little more complicated. For starters, you might wonder if the latest game from Melbourne-based House House is anything like its breakthrough. Well, it certainly shares the gleeful devilment of its biggest hit. There are no geese here,

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Noctua shows off ‘custom-built torture-test rigs’ for testing fans, and now I’m afraid of ever setting foot in the Noctua factory

Noctua is one of the very best fan makers on the market, but introducing its fan into the Feinmann F01 Noctua Edition gaming mouse seemed to involve a truly horrible sequence of fan tests. Noctua has “custom-built torture-test rigs”, all designed to put fans through their paces to see if they can withstand how the

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Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls shows early signs of popularity, soaring up tournament entry leaderboards

As seen on the Start.gg page for upcoming American fighting game tournament CEO – major national event for the region – 1054 attendees signed up for the Marvel Tokon bracket by the time registration closed. To compare, Street Fighter 6 came in at 1,111, and Tekken 8 has 783 entrants. This reflects previous figures posted

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