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In the latest 3DMark Solar Bay Stress Test, the Exynos 2400 manages to impress once again as it beats the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in performance stability while running in the smaller Galaxy S24 Plus. In short, Samsung’s latest SoC scores higher than Qualcomm’s latest and greatest silicon.

Story modes in sports games have had a long-standing problem. Scripted narratives clash with the “anything can happen” nature of sports, which means what happens in the actual games can be in direct opposition to what happens in the narrative.

Discover the buried history of Azeroth and the Dragon Isles through the Azerothian Archives public event, explore Bel’ameth—a burgeoning new zone offering hope to the kaldorei, take dragonriding to the skies of old-world continents, storm Dragonflight dungeons alongside NPC companions, complete new campaign chapters in the continuation of the Dragon Isle epilogues, and more!

The Rockstar Editor will soon be removed from the PS4 and Xbox One versions of GTA Online because last-gen consoles aren't getting any younger. 

Sam Altman said that his dramatic and quickly-reversed firing at OpenAI was less nerve-wracking than how the world approaches making artificial intelligence as capable as humans.

ASUS launched its USB4 Add-In-Card, featuring support for the latest connection standard along with 60W power delivery.

The Outland Cup is now live, allowing players to complete 13 new Dragonriding Races in the shattered remnants of Draenor! Check out all the rewards including the Manuscript of Endless Possibility that randomizes your Dragonriding customization each time you mount! Outland Cup Guide and Rewards

Make your way through the Dark Portal to dash through the skies of Outland with a new dragonriding racing event available in the shattered remnants of Draenor.

Mumbai, India– In today's India, ambitions are getting bigger and education costlier. Every parent wants to provide the best education for their child, and they are willing to do everything possible. They go above and beyond their means to achieve this goal for their children's future.

After the Galaxy S24 series was officially unveiled at Samsung’s first official event of the year, it did not take long for the company’s Exynos 2400 to be put through its paces since most consumers will make their purchase based on how well or poorly the SoC performs. In the latest 3DMark Wild Life Extreme Stress Test, Samsung’s top-end silicon puts on a positive first impression by obtaining twice the performance of its predecessor, the Exynos 2200, and matching the A17 Pro.

As a people pleaser, I simply can’t stand the sight of my followers leaving my cult and telling me they’ll catch me in the afterlife in Cult of the Lamb.

The new Apple Bengaluru office is located at Minsk Square in the center of the city, near iconic buildings including high court, central library, Chinnaswamy cricket stadium, and one of the largest green parks within the city. In fact, what will surely appeal to employees and visitors, it is quite close to Cubbon Park metro station and that means public transit is easily accessible.

In Nov. 2005 Microsoft hit a home run. The original Xbox had built up a solid reputation as a graphical powerhouse, boasted critically acclaimed titles like Halo: Combat Evolved and provided slick console online functionality with Xbox Live.

Retro video game high score chaser Billy Mitchell has had his Donkey Kong scores reinstated to an extent on the Twin Galaxies website, six years after they were removed.

Discover the buried history of Azeroth and the Dragon Isles through the Azerothian Archives Public Event, explore Bel'ameth—a burgeoning new zone offering hope to the kaldorei, take dragonriding to the skies of old-world continents, storm dragonflight dungeons alongside NPC companions, complete new campaign chapters in the continuation of the Dragon Isle epilogues, and more!

Today, the organizers of the Game Developers Conference have announced the nominations for the GDC Awards 2024. To the surprise of nobody, Larian's Baldur's Gate 3 and Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom have dominated them, achieving seven nominations each.

Nearly six years after the dispute first began, Billy Mitchell's record Donkey Kong scores have been officially restored by Twin Galaxies.

Billy Mitchell, the arcade gamer known for achievements in titles like Pac-Man and Donkey Kong, has had several records reinstated by the Twin Galaxies database after reaching a settlement in a defamation lawsuit that's been ongoing since 2019.

Prison Architect 2 has finally been announced, and it looks like players are in for a serious treat as developer Double Eleven has packed this sequel full of new features. 

Mojang Studios has partnered with BBC for a brand-new Minecraft Education world inspired by Planet Earth 3.

The Last of Us Part II Remastered hits PlayStation 5 exclusively on Friday, January 19. I recently played through its story, my first of the remastered version but my third time overall. Or rather, I watched my wife, a first-time player unspoiled of its events, play through it – I interviewed her about it, and you can read those impressions here. But I experienced The Last of Us Part II’s story once more nonetheless. Big surprise: I really loved it, just like I did in 2020. I might like it even more now today, to be honest.

A slump in smartphone demand did not shake Apple’s resolve or the sales momentum of its iPhones because, according to the latest data, the California-based giant achieved one milestone that it took the firm 13 years to fulfill ever since it launched the first iPhone, and that is overtaking its closest adversary, Samsung, in global smartphone shipments.

Another day, another blowup over Overwatch 2 changes. In a recent blog discussing balance changes coming in Overwatch 2 Season 9, Blizzard revealed that all heroes will soon be given passive healing abilities. That certainly raised a lot of eyebrows, considering Overwatch already has an entire class of characters – the Support heroes – dedicated to healing. Blizzard claims the change is designed to reduce “damage spikes” during combat, although some may argue the cost of achieving that is too great.

Diablo 4 Season 3 is just about a week away — so now's your last chance to clean up those few pesky achievements you may have left in Season 2. While many things will remain in game, certain Season 2 rewards are leaving the game forever, so don't miss out on these snazzy titles, cosmetics, and more! Diablo 4 Season 2 Battle Pass Season 2 Season Journey Guide Season 2 Seasonal Questline Overview

Apple iPhone 15 Price Cut: Apple Inc. is offering discounts of as much as 500 yuan ($70) on its latest iPhones in China for the first time in years, a rare cut that may deepen fears about dwindling demand for its marquee device.

Epic Games founder and majority stakeholder Tim Sweeney took to Twitter to congratulate Microsoft for overtaking Apple as the world's most valuable company by market value. He also criticized Apple and Google in the same tweet.

The next Battlefield game from Ripple Effect (previously known as DICE LA) is aiming to have "the most realistic and exciting destruction effects in the industry".

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Let’s not beat around the proverbial bush; Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is the best Prince of Persia game for the last twenty-one years. Heck, it might even be better than Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, though that particular argument involves taking on nostalgia, and that’s a battle I get nervous about as it is one I cannot win. What I can say with supreme confidence is this; Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is utterly brilliant.

In a thus-far undisputed world record, a Lethal Company crew has managed to hand in 10,501 quota in an un-modded session, clearing a daunting 10,102 quota target and unlocking a new and frankly unthinkable target of 11,899. 

The Granblue Fantasy: Relink PC system requirements have been revealed, and they may be a little higher than expected for a cross-generation title also launching on PlayStation 4.

More than six years after the original Persona 5 arrived on U.S. store shelves, the RPG is still spitting out successors and spin-offs that capitalize on how beloved that title is to this day. The 2020 update, Persona 5 Royal, is the best-received successor, but both 2021 Musou hybrid Persona 5 Strikers and the recently released turn-based strategy RPG Persona 5 Tactica gave players plenty to love.

What is it? An update to the classic action-roguelike with a few new elements in the mix.

A DualSense V2 controller has appeared on Best Buy Canada’s website, leaking an improved version of the PS5 controller with up to 12 hours of battery life.

Progress, EU Guild on Gehennas, has achieved world first Ruby Sanctum on Wrath of the Lich King Classic! They defeated Halion in just over 12 minutes after the launch of Ruby Sanctum. You can view the entire Progress page of all guilds worldwide below on Warcraft Logs -- Warcraft Logs — Ruby Sanctum

The Ruby Sanctum is now live on Wrath of the Lich King Classic! You can view all of our Ruby Sanctum Guides below -- Ruby Sanctum Overview Ruby Sanctum Loot Ruby Sanctum AchievementsRuby Sanctum Boss Strategy Guides Halion

Discover the buried history of Azeroth and the Dragon Isles through the Azerothian Archives public event, explore Bel’ameth—a burgeoning new zone offering hope to the kaldorei, take dragonriding to the skies of old-world continents, storm Dragonflight dungeons alongside NPC companions, complete new campaign chapters in the continuation of the Dragon Isle epilogues, and more!

Here are the Patch 10.2.5 Patch Notes!

In the Dragonflight Patch 10.2.5 release notes, Blizzard has noted that players who already completed the Trading Post Enthusiast achievement will have static Gleaming and Moonlight versions of the Ensemble: Burden of Unrelenting Justice awarded upon login next week!

 We know that “winning lots of awards” isn’t exactly a “critical game development goal” when creating a video game. After all, it’s impossible to know what people will think of your title after you make it, even if you’ve spent years working on it, and even if you DO get nominated, it’s not a guarantee you’ll win. That last part was personified by Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 over the last month or so. Despite being one of the best games of 2023 by a large margin and being nominated for tons of awards across multiple sites and shows, it hasn’t exactly been “raking them in.”

The nominations for the 27th annual D.I.C.E (Design Innovate Communicate Entertain) Awards have been announced by The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, and Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is leading the pack with a total of nine nominations. 

In the upcoming D.I.C.E awards, Spider-Man 2 takes an early lead by scoring nine nominations. The awards ceremony is scheduled for February 15 this year.

A DualSense V2 controller has appeared on Best Buy Canada’s website, leaking an improved version of the PS5 controller with up to 12 hours of battery life.

Spider-Man 2 led the nominations for the 27th Annual DICE Awards, which were announced yesterday.

The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS) has announced the nominations for the 27th annual DICE Awards, revealing that Marvel's Spider-Man 2 has garnered the most nominations (9) ahead of Alan Wake 2 (8) and Baldur's Gate 3 (7). Marvel's Spider-Man 2 was nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Animation, Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction, Outstanding Achievement in Character (for Miles Morales), Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition, Outstanding Achievement in Audio Design, Outstanding Technical Achievement, Action Game of the Year, Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction, and Game of the Year. Alan Wake 2 was listed in the Art, Character (for Saga Anderson), Music Composition, Audio Design, Story, Technical Achievement, Adventure, and Game of the Year categories. Baldur's Gate 3 is running in the Character (for Astarion and Karlach), Story, RPG, Game Design, Game Director, and Game of the Year awards.

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After being shut out at The Game Awards, Spider-Man 2 will hope to have better luck at the upcoming DICE Awards, which it leads with nine nominations.

The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences has announced the nominees for next month’s 27th annual DICE Awards.

Discover the buried history of Azeroth and the Dragon Isles through the Azerothian Archives Public Event, explore Bel'ameth—a burgeoning new zone offering hope to the kaldorei, take dragonriding to the skies of old-world continents, storm dragonflight dungeons alongside NPC companions, complete new campaign chapters in the continuation of the Dragon Isle epilogues, and more!

The new 2.5 version of the Lossless Scaling software has introduced the first universal frame generation method. This can theoretically be enabled in any game as long as it has a functioning borderless windowed mode and it works even with integrated GPUs.

A year ago, one Pokemon Red speedrunner set a world record so good that big chunks of the community thought it would never be broken. Last month, a runner named Jadiwi seemingly did the impossible by claiming a new world record, but the keepers of Pokemon speedrunning have now declared Jadiwi's world record too good to be true, alleging that the miracle run was the result of cheating.

With the arrival of the New Year a new Lost Ark monthly update has arrived. The January Update includes the Inferno mode of Brelshaza, the new Lai Lai Adventure Island, and a slew of quality of life and balance updates, along with additional new content.

Baldur’s Gate 3 is one of the best games ever made. Sure it’s had some rough patches since launch, and sure, Act 3 is a little bit wonky in terms of performance, but as a whole, Baldur’s Gate 3 is truly exceptional. Heck, it even won Game Of The Year at The Game Awards. Awesome.

Bungie is making changes to Destiny 2's PvP modifier Checkmate and confirms more Crucible tweaks will follow. 

The 10.2 achievement Friends In Feathers rewards the Battle Pet Blueloo. This achievement can be worked on any time the Claws for Concern daily is available in the Emerald Dream.

Looking for some Wordle wisdom? Instantly turn your game around with our help. Give your guesses a boost with our tips, find your own way to a January 10 (935) win with a clue, or go straight for the win with today's answer. However you want to play, we've got it covered.

The Ruby Sanctum releases on Thursday, January 11 at 3 PM PST and we've prepared guides to help you defeat the final encounter in Wrath of the Lich King Classic! The Ruby Sanctum is an extension to the Wyrmrest Temple dragonflight Sanctum raids. Sacred grounds of the red dragons, the Ruby Sanctum was invaded by the Twilight dragonflight. It is the very last raid of the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, and while it only has one boss it carries a lot of significance. Ruby Sanctum Overview

There are a few games that are so unusual and incredible that I wish I could erase my memory and play them again for the first time. While I haven’t figured out a way to achieve that goal, there’s a fun alternative — find projects inspired by those games, and appreciate them. Buckshot Roulette, a game made by Mike Klubnika, is a perfect example of this.

Lethal Company is already a scary game, but there’s a new patch that adds a much more challenging kind of moon to raid for scrap. Version 47 is the first patch of the new year, and it adds replayable challenge moons. There’s also a glimpse of a weirdly familiar mouse who just entered public domain. Intriguing!

Small form factor PCs have been a thing seemingly forever now, and I've always been something of a fan. After all, a regular ATX case can be quite an awkward space hog on your desk, so fitting your components into a small and efficient chassis instead seems like a sensible thing to do. Cooler Master seems to have forgotten the whole «small and efficient» part of that principle, however, as it's just unveiled a mini ITX case at CES 2024 that, well, isn't. 

Penicillin. The Moon landing. Wireless telecommunications. These are just a few of the mad grasps for god's power that humanity has attempted in the last couple of centuries, and now their pantheon is joined by another ludicrous, transcendent venture. A heroic modder has slotted a ladder the height of the actual, genuine, real-life Empire State Building into FromSoft classic Demon's Souls. Then they climbed it. Then they died.

PlayStation marked a record-high 123 million active users in December, the company announced during its CES press conference on Monday.

Nvidia is showcasing some pretty impressive upcoming tech at CES 2024, including some brand new displays that are equipped with their newly revealed G-Sync Pulsar technology.

In a big setback for US space agency NASA, a historic private mission to land on the Moon was facing near-certain failure Monday after the spacecraft suffered a "critical loss" of fuel, in a major blow to America's hopes of placing its first robot on the lunar surface in five decades.

Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, Wrath of the Lich King Classic, Burning Crusade Classic, Season of Discovery, and WoW Classic. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require scheduled realm restarts to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client-side patch update. This list will be updated as additional hotfixes are applied.

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After laying off 600 people and closing multiple offices earlier in the year, engine maker Unity warned in November 2023 that further layoffs were likely. In an SEC filing made today, the company confirmed that it is cutting roughly 25% of its current workforce in order to «position itself for long-term and profitable growth.»

One streamer spent 200 hours beating an absurd, hyper-difficult variant of Minecraft's most popular challenge, only to have the crowning achievement rendered meaningless by an update that landed just a week after it was all done.

For only the second time in seven years, a lucky player has claimed one of the rarest MMO drops ever: a 1-in-100 million gem in Old School RuneScape. 

Warhammer 40000: Rogue Trader has an incredible secret ending you need to check out.

ASRock has finally unveiled its DeskMini & DeskMeet X600 PCs which are ready for AMD Ryzen 8000G Desktop APUs.

Steam, Valve’s popular digital game storefront, has hit a significant milestone with a record-breaking 33,675,229 users logged in to the service at the same time over the weekend.

For the first time ever, the NES version of Tetris has been beaten. It’s been done by a 13-year-old teen from Oklahoma. And that is a hell of an achievement.

The AMD-powered Frontier Supercomputer with Instinct MI250X GPUs has achieved a 1 Trillion Parameter LLM run, rivaling ChatGPT-4.

The gaming smartphone market will add another member to its limited but growing family with the ROG Phone 8 Pro, as ASUS looks to launch the first lineup of handsets sporting the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. To prepare potential buyers to obtain some bragging rights against Apple’s A17 Pro, the company has started teasing the performance of its upcoming flagship, starting with the Geekbench 6 multi-core results.

Streamer Luality is no stranger to challenge runs. She's played Elden Ring with both a dance mat and full body motion controls, so it's no surprise to see that she's out here making Baldur's Gate 3's notoriously difficult Honour Mode even harder than it needs to be. This now includes playing with a randomiser mod, and the results are horrifying.

Marvel fans were treated to a new installment in the MCU over the holidays, a new episode of What If dropping every day for nine days in a row at the end of December. The second season of the animated show explores various scenarios had things gone differently in the MCU, including an episode in which Nebula joins the Nova Corps, and another where Peter Quill takes on the Avengers. There's also an episode where Iron Man ends up on Sakaar.

 The falling-block video game Tetris has met its match in 13-year-old Willis Gibson, who has become the first player to officially “beat” the original Nintendo version of the game — by breaking it. Technically, Willis — aka “blue scuti” in the gaming world — made it to what gamers call a “kill screen,” a point where the Tetris code glitches, crashing the game. That might not sound like much of a victory to anyone thinking that only high scores count, but it's a highly coveted achievement in the world of video games, where records involve pushing hardware and software to their limits. And beyond.

Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, Wrath of the Lich King Classic, Burning Crusade Classic, Season of Discovery, and WoW Classic. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require scheduled realm restarts to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client-side patch update. This list will be updated as additional hotfixes are applied.

Huawei Technologies Co.'s newest laptop runs on a chip made by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., a teardown of the device showed, quashing talk of another Chinese technological breakthrough. The Qingyun L540 notebook contains a 5-nanometer chip made by the Taiwanese company in 2020, around the time US sanctions cut off Huawei's access to the chipmaker, research firm TechInsights found after dismantling the device for Bloomberg News. That counters speculation that Huawei's domestic chipmaking partner, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., may have achieved a major leap in fabrication technique.