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Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands appears to be getting a PS5 and Xbox Series X/S Definitive Edition, but is it a remaster or a bog standard re-release?

News by Sherif Saed Senior Contributor Published on July 21, 2026 Follow Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Breakpoint If you’ve been itching to replay Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands, for some reason, you may soon have a reason to. The open-world co-op shooter will be 10 years old next March and it looks like Ubisoft is […]

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007 First Light’s secret best character was a perfect way for IO Interactive to celebrate British writing and “restrained emotion”

"Not necessarily the stiff upper lip." The idea of having a mentor figure in the game was always part of the plan, 007 First Light’s main writer Michael Vogt told me at IO Interactive’s office in Brighton last week. “Since it’s an origin story and he’s entering MI6, there always was a mentor figure,” he

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Developer creates a password-cracking Game Boy Advance that is ‘about thirty million times slower than a modern cracking rig’

A security engineer has “ported” one of the best known password recovery utilities to the GameBoy Advance. The port is based on Hashcat, a password recovery utility that otherwise pitches itself as the “world’s fastest.” But I’m doing the bunny ears around ‘ported’ because even the developer admits this is “not really” Hashcat in full.

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Xbox admits its game exclusivity strategy isn’t “obvious”, but insists Gears of War and Clockwork Revolution won’t be the only non-PlayStation games

Xbox chief strategy officer Matthew Ball and chief content officer Matt Booty tried to get a clearer message across during a recent chat with GamesRadar, leading with the fact Xbox has more plans for console exclusives in the near future. “I can assure you, Gears of War: E-Day and Clockwork Revolution are not the only

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Modern Warfare 4 open and closed beta dates announced, including for Switch 2, alongside the return of Call of Duty: Next

This year’s Next event, set for 21st August, will seemingly switch to being entirely online rather than in person; Activision referred to it as “a global event”. You can expect a developer briefing on what the show will feature, before it throws it to live gameplay from creators. This is not the only thing being

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Hot swappable mouse batteries might be the hot new trend as it looks like Wallhack’s first ever mouse will have them

Wallhack (previously SkyPad, if you weren’t aware) has teased a gaming mouse that will be announced on July 24. This will be the company’s first gaming mouse, having previously stuck to high-performance mouse pads, sleeves, and skates. There must just be something irresistible about hot swappable batteries. This mouse looks to have them, as from

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One of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s leather jackets has fetched an auction price of $960,000: ‘It has become a symbol for the vision at the forefront of the AI revolution’

Steve Jobs had his turtlenecks, Jensen Huang has his iconic leather jackets. Well, one less of them now, anyway. Famous auctioneer Sotheby’s put one of Huang’s jackets up for auction over the weekend, with estimates placing the value between $40,000 to $60,000. However, the hammer price (after 65 bids) ended up being an astonishing $960,000—with

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‘With the power of illustration, we can capture the true, playful vibe of a kangaroo’: Google explains the thinking behind its new 3D emojis

I like to imagine that, in thousands of years time, an alien species will land on the desert wasteland that was once Earth and begin combing through our digital records. What they’ll likely discover fairly quickly is the rise of emojis in our daily communications during the late 2000s, a process Google is looking to

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Streamer builds a battery powered PC with over 100 AAs, uses Hannah Montana Linux to benchmark their abomination

Streamer Uwos Lab built an entirely battery powered gaming PC over the course of a five-hour stream last week. The rules were simple: no laptops, and no lithium ion AA batteries. The build had to be a desktop that could play a game while only relying on battery power. The self-described ‘Mad-scientist streamer’ explained their

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