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EXCLUSIVE: Xbox Cloud Gaming will get ad-supported access this year — rumors coalesce after ad support notices appear prematurely

Users have been noticing that Xbox Cloud Gaming has begun referencing "ad support" while launching games, confirming our earlier report.

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Epic Games Store grew from 108M to 295M users, but third‑party revenue barely moved — proving giveaways trained users not to actually buy games. Is Xbox PC going down the same path?

Free games helped Epic reach millions of players, but it also changed how they spend. Is Xbox doomed to make the same mistake on PC?

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Weekly Windows Wrap: Excellent hardware meets an OS in crisis — it’s time to hold up a mirror to Microsoft

In this week's Windows Wrap, Sean Endicott reflects on the friction between peak PC hardware and Microsoft’s frustrating, AI-obsessed software strategy.

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7 features that still make World of Warcraft awesome for relative newcomers like me in 2026 — as Blizzard Entertainment celebrates its 35th anniversary

With Blizzard's 35th anniversary and World of Warcraft: Midnight on the horizon, it's time I looked back on how I finally learned to enjoy this historic MMORPG by listing 7 seven major gameplay aspects that grew me after so many years of avoiding it.

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Razer makes one of the fastest controllers on the planet, so why was it feeling sluggish? Turns out not all the settings are worth it.

To say I'm using the fastest controller on the planet, it's felt inexplicably sluggish recently. I finally figured out why, and the fix could apply to any recent Razer controller.

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My 5 wishes for Blizzard Entertainment in 2026 range from a single-player Overwatch to the return of Starcraft — they may never happen, but a man can dream

Blizzard Entertainment is gearing up for its 35th anniversary later this year. In honor of this event, I'm going to list 5 things I wish to see from that may be impossible, but are worth dreaming about including improvements exisiting games or bringing back a dormant franchise.

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PC hardware is entering a golden age of design and engineering, while Windows — with its newfound AI obsession — has never felt worse. Something must change.

My visit to CES 2026 cemented my opinion that PC hardware has never been in a better state from a design and engineering standpoint. Windows, on the other hand, seems to be on the decline.

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I spent two weeks using Geekom's first 16-inch laptop — an interesting processor choice, but a solid performance from one of our favorite mini PC brands

Geekom has been designing and manufacturing mini PCs since the 2010s, but now the company has released its first laptops. The 16-inch GeekBook X16 Pro has a few surprises, most of them good. Our review.

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OpenAI is slapping ads into ChatGPT, raising concerns that Microsoft Copilot and other AI assistants will soon follow suit

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has had an unfortunate dose of reality, reckoning with the fact ChatGPT is a uniquely powerful money destruction machine.

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OpenAI's first steps into AI hardware leaks, and it looks like a pair of earbuds

An OpenAI leak reportedly highlighted a pair of AI earbuds, alongside early supposed details about its hardware.

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Resident Evil Village: All 20 Goat of Warding Locations list — and what happens when you get them all

Having a hard time tracking down the sneaky wooden goats in Resident Evil Village? Well, here's the location of every Goat of Warding.

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Microsoft stock continues downward trend, dropping 10% — ballooning infrastructure CAPEX, shrinking AI hype, and Google blamed

Microsoft execs have offloaded millions of dollars worth of stock over the past quarter, as the firm's outlook (no pun intended) looks murky.

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Windows 11 users are still turning to third-party tools to bypass Microsoft's push for all-encompassing AI — and "Winslop" is the most categorical example to date

Winslop is a lightweight app that helps you remove the AI features Microsoft has been heavily integrating into Windows 11.

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Here's how you get the new Hawker HX sniper in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 as fast — and stress free — as possible

The second week of the Black Ops 7 Fallout crossover event brings the final new weapon of Season 01, and this is how you can get it unlocked quickly, and without sweating.

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Your upvotes, comments, and presence help more people discover our reporting — and help shape what we cover next.

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This decade's best horror game picks up "Xbox Play Anywhere" support on PC and Xbox Ally — but ... don't download it yet

Resident Evil Village hits Xbox Game Pass on Jan 20. The landmark horror title concludes Ethan Winters' story, and sets the scene for Resident Evil Requiem.

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CoD sales fell 60% — and Kotick says the collapse proves the Microsoft buyout was the right move. Does it?

Bobby Kotick claims Call of Duty sales are down more than 60% as he defends Activision’s $69B sale to Microsoft amid a lawsuit from Swedish pension fund AP7.

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Oops! Microsoft possibly just leaked Xbox's Forza Horizon 6 release date with an in-game pop-up — here's when the big open-world racer might come out

Microsoft and Xbox may have just accidentally shown Forza Horizon 6's release date in an in-game pop-up, if this leak is to be believed.

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"The year ahead is shaping up to be extremely volatile" — IDC adds another PC price alarm to a market already filled with noise

Expert analysts agree that 2026 will be anything but pleasant for those shopping for a new PC, and smaller brands will struggle the most.

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Microsoft isn't deleting your Windows 11 files, but OneDrive's sync system is causing confusion and frustration: "I think they should have to go to jail for this."

Microsoft hasn't deleted your files from your local folders; they have just been relocated and synced to OneDrive because the backup feature was enabled by default when upgrading to Windows 11, version 25H2.

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One of the best Xbox Play Anywhere games just got its notorious save bug fixed for Xbox Ally and Xbox PC

We complained and moaned, and Xbox listened. Kojima Productions, Xbox, and 505 Games collaborate on a strange bug preventing save files from working correctly for Death Stranding on Xbox PC / Xbox Ally.

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Google's parent company Alphabet hits $4 trillion — Google’s AI deal with Apple pays off

Alphabet has reached a $4 trillion valuation after Apple selected Google’s Gemini to power parts of Siri, alongside strong cloud growth and continued strength in advertising revenue.

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A new 'more interactive' Hellblade is reportedly in the works, but Ninja Theory is no longer working on its 'experimental' Project Mara title

A new report claims that Ninja Theory is no longer working on Project Mara and is, instead, now developing a third installment in its Hellblade series.

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Valve's Steam Deck suffers the same problem as the Xbox Ally, and the solution might be a modern manufacturing impossibility — Sony nailed it 16 years ago

Handhelds are a modern marvel, but they're getting way too big. Is the PSP Go an example of what we should have done, or is that space filled by smartphones?

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