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    Battlefield 6 Season 4 is Live: Naval Combat Arrives and RTX 50 Series Cards are Crashing on Water Maps

    Battlefield 6’s first naval season is live as of yesterday, and most of the news is genuinely good: a major new map, boats, waves that actually affect gameplay, and a roadmap that carries through September. The less welcome news landed today, and it lands squarely on GeForce RTX 50-series owners...
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    NVIDIA Releases Hotfix 610.82: Fixes RTX 50 Series Crashes in Halo and Path of Exile 2, but not Battlefield 6

    NVIDIA dropped a hotfix driver today, and if your GeForce RTX 50-series card has been causing trouble in Halo: Campaign Evolved or locking up Path of Exile 2 after long sessions, this is the one to install. GeForce Hotfix Display Driver 610.82 was released this morning, built on the July 7 Game...
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    XBOX Backward Compatibility Launches On PC: Conker, Crimson Skies, Blinx and Fuzion Frenzy Available Now

    Conker: Live and Reloaded is playable on a Windows PC yesterday for the first time in more than two decades, and that is not a sentence anyone was expecting to type in July of 2026. Microsoft’s Jason Ronald, VP of Next Generation at Xbox, published the announcement this morning on Xbox Wire...
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    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Beta Dates Confirmed for August

    The annual Call of Duty beta calendar is set. Activision confirmed the Modern Warfare 4 (Ed: Hasn’t this game already been released a couple times?) beta schedule on Monday via the official Call of Duty blog, anchoring the multiplayer test to the Call of Duty: NEXT event on August 21 and running...
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    Halo: Campaign Evolved Early Access Starts Thursday. Here’s what you need to know.

    Twenty-five years after the original Halo: Combat Evolved launched alongside the first Xbox, the remake arrives on PC this Thursday. Halo: Campaign Evolved, developed by Halo Studios in Unreal Engine 5, begins early access on July 23 at 8 AM PDT for Premium Edition and Collector’s Edition...
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    The FPS Review Weekender: Ryzen 7 7700X3D Divides the Press, We Review the New ASRock CHALLENGER White, Plus 8 More

    The Ryzen 7 7700X3D embargo lifted Wednesday and immediately generated the most contested CPU verdict of the year, with gaming-focused outlets largely positive and everyone running a price calculator pointing at the 7800X3D sitting $20 higher on the shelf. Rick Patterson also dropped a full...
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    AMD’s New $330 Gaming CPU Has a $20 Problem Called the Ryzen 7 7800X3D

    AMD lifted the review embargo on the Ryzen 7 7700X3D on Wednesday, and the resulting nine-outlet wave has produced one of the more divided CPU receptions this year. The disagreement is not really about the chip: It is about whether anyone should buy it. The Ryzen 7 7700X3D is a downclocked...
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    Primegrid Challenge Series 2026

    Tossed on a Xeon with your assistance!
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    RPCS3 Crosses 75% PS3 Compatibility: Three-Quarters of the Entire PlayStation 3 Library Now Playable on PC

    The RPCS3 emulator team announced on July 14 that 75% of all PlayStation 3 games are now classified as PLAYABLE on PC (Ed: Are the allc caps on playable really needed?), meaning they can be completed with playable performance and no game-breaking glitches. That is a significant preservation...
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    The Blood of Dawnwalker Goes Gold: September 3 Launch Is Locked

    It is happening. Rebel Wolves confirmed today via the game’s official X account that The Blood of Dawnwalker has gone gold, with the post reading simply: “The Blood of Dawnwalker has gone gold! Vale Sangora awaits.” Going gold means the master build is finalized, physical discs are in...
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    NVIDIA and SEGA Reunite After 30 Years, Bringing Classic Franchises to RTX Spark

    Thirty years ago, SEGA wrote NVIDIA a $5 million check and saved the company from going under. Jensen Huang flew to Tokyo to say thank you in person, and the two companies announced that SEGA’s game lineup is coming to NVIDIA RTX Spark. The first confirmed title is Virtua Fighter Crossroads, the...
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    Intel Ships Chips with First High-Volume High-NA EUV Production

    ASML announced that Intel Foundry is using its High-NA EUV lithography tools in high-volume production on select layers of its Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake” processors, making Intel the first company anywhere to ship a commercial logic product built with the technology. The disclosure came...
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    Plug In an LG Monitor, Get McAfee Ads: Windows Is Auto-Installing Manufacturer Bloatware

    Somewhere between connecting a new LG UltraGear monitor and opening a game, Windows apparently decided the customer also needed a McAfee advertisement. A Reddit user posting as Mags_Smash on r/pcmasterrace documented this earlier this week: after connecting three LG UltraGear displays, a...
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    Palworld is Finally Done with Early Access and Its 1.0 Update is a Monster

    Two and a half years after one of the most explosive Early Access launches in Steam’s history, Palworld is done with Early Access. Version 1.0 went live on July 10, simultaneously across Steam, the Microsoft Store, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and Game Pass. Pocketpair did not raise the...
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    SK Hynix CEO Says 2027 Will Be Memory’s Worst Year Ever, And It Will Not Get Better Before 2030

    If you were hoping the current DDR5 price situation would stabilize in the near term, the CEO of one of the world’s largest memory producers has a message for you: it is about to get worse. SK Hynix Chief Executive Kwak Noh-jung told Reuters on July 10 that 2027 will be the worst year in […]...
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