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Microsoft’s Flight Simulator 2024 launch day users seeing long loading times
20 Nov

Microsoft’s Flight Simulator 2024 launch day users seeing long loading times

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If you tried to get some flight time in Flight Simulator 2024 today only to find yourself staring at a loading screen, you’re not alone. The official X page for Microsoft’s flight sim posted an update that several users are reporting “long initial loading times.” Not exactly the debut anyone was hoping for.The post blames the game’s slowdown on the large number of server requests trying to log into the game at once — maybe something Microsoft should have expected. The post also recommends rebooting your computer or console if the initial load makes it past 90 percent mark and then…
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First trailer for A Minecraft Movie delivers on iconic in-game moments
20 Nov

First trailer for A Minecraft Movie delivers on iconic in-game moments

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A Minecraft Movie has dropped its first full-length trailer today, expanding on the blocky world hinted at by the released in September. While the game Minecraft gives players only the barest sense of direction, there will be a traditional story driving A Minecraft Movie.Jack Black provides a voiceover about how his character, Minecraft mascot and stock avatar Steve, was drawn to the mines as a child and discovered the Overworld. He teams up with four other people, seemingly from the real world we know, to protect the Overworld from "dark forces" with their inventiveness and creativity. This all sounds like…
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Sony will trial cloud streaming for the PS5 Portal
19 Nov

Sony will trial cloud streaming for the PS5 Portal

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Sony that it will run a beta test for cloud streaming on its PlayStation Portal gaming handheld. The feature will begin rolling out in an update today, with Europe due to get it starting on Wednesday. Only PlayStation Plus Premium members will be able to access cloud streaming during the beta test, but it's a promising sign that Sony is finally working on this function, even though it took a year to get here. Adding cloud gaming to the Portal addresses one of the big critiques in our of this handheld, which didn't seem to have an obvious target audience.More…
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The 23 best PC games you can play right now for 2024
19 Nov

The 23 best PC games you can play right now for 2024

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Single-player or multiplayer: Single-player | Free to play: No In Still Wakes the Deep, horror comes in multiple forms. Eldritch creatures stalk the Beira D oil rig on thin, too-long limbs that burst from their bodies like snapping bungee cords. Human-sized pustules and bloody ribbons grow along the corridors, emitting a sickly cosmic glow. The North Sea is an unrelenting threat, wailing beneath every step. And then there’s the rig itself, a maze-like industrial platform supported by slender tension legs in the middle of a raging ocean, groaning as it’s ripped apart from the inside. Gameplay in Still Wakes the…
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LG unveils its own 480Hz OLED gaming monitor
18 Nov

LG unveils its own 480Hz OLED gaming monitor

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Back in January at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), LG unveiled a 27-inch 480Hz OLED panel with some incredible specs, but didn't say when or even if it would build a monitor around it. Now, the company has announced the UltraGear GX7 (27GX790A), a 27-inch QHD (2,560 x 1,440) OLED gaming monitor with a 480Hz refresh rate and a .03-millisecond response time — the fastest of any QHD OLED monitor, LG claims.The new display supports both NVIDIA's G-Sync and AMD's FreeSync technology to reduce screen tearing and flickering. It received VESA's DisplayHDR True Black 400 certification, meaning it's decently bright,…
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iFixit’s PS5 Pro teardown reveals an easily replaceable CMOS battery
18 Nov

iFixit’s PS5 Pro teardown reveals an easily replaceable CMOS battery

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The teardown of the PS5 Pro is here, and while there isn’t all that much different going on from what we’ve seen with the PS5 and PS5 Slim in terms of repairability, Sony has made one notable change: in the Pro, it’s pretty easy to get to the CMOS battery. Whereas accessing this battery to replace it in the two previous PS5 models required a fair amount of work due to its placement beneath the main board, iFixit found that it’s right under the faceplates in the PS5 Pro and nestled behind a hatch that has just one screw.That’s a…
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Xbox Black Friday deals are live, so snag Halo: The Master Chief Collection for just $10
17 Nov

Xbox Black Friday deals are live, so snag Halo: The Master Chief Collection for just $10

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The Black Friday elves are smiling today. Xbox , and there are some real goodies to choose from. This is a digital sale, so it’s a great time to pad that backlog, particularly if your .Perhaps the most noteworthy deal here is for Halo: The Master Chief Collection. It’s on sale for $10, . This Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Halo 2: Anniversary, Halo 3 and Halo 4. This adds up to 45 campaign missions and more than 100 multiplayer maps. Much of this content has been updated to provide 4K visuals and HDR support.Microsoft The Street Fighter 6 , which…
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Two early Unreal games are now permanently free via the Internet Archive
17 Nov

Two early Unreal games are now permanently free via the Internet Archive

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The Internet Archive is one of the very best things on the web, so it's great that the repository is after recent DDoS attacks. It hosts more than old versions of web pages, though. It hosts a trove of video (I'm forever thankful to whoever uploaded the wonderful Lucha Underground in its entirety), software, text, audio recordings and as well. There have been two notable additions on the latter front in the form of Unreal and Unreal Tournament, seemingly with .You can now freely download disc images of the arena shooters from the Internet Archive via direct links for and…
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ADL’s report on racist Steam Community posts prompts a letter from Virginia senator
17 Nov

ADL’s report on racist Steam Community posts prompts a letter from Virginia senator

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A damning report from the Anti-Defamation League published Thursday on the “unprecedented” amount of racist and violent content on Steam Community has prompted a US Senator to take action. In a letter spotted by The Verge, Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) asked Valve CEO Gabe Newell how he and his company are addressing the issue.“My concern is elevated by the fact that Steam is the largest single online gaming digital distribution and social networking platform in the world with over 100 million unique user accounts and a user base similar in scale to that of the ‘traditional social media and social…
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Valve celebrates Half-Life 2’s 20th anniversary with a big update
16 Nov

Valve celebrates Half-Life 2’s 20th anniversary with a big update

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It’s Half-Life 2’s 20th anniversary, and in celebration, Valve has released a special update that adds the Episode One and Episode Two expansions to the base game so you can play it all straight through, along with a two-hour documentary, developer commentary, and much more. The game is also free on Steam until November 18. Valve’s announcement itself is an interactive experience — grab the gravity gun at the bottom of the page and you can pick up just about anything on the screen and toss it around (including that can, which you can then put in the trash).“Every map…
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