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Microsoft continues Xbox layoffs, with jobs cut at King, Turn 10, ZeniMax Media, and more — read Phil Spencer's note to staff

Microsoft is laying off employees in its Xbox division, including cuts to the teams at King and ZeniMax Media.

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Apple is making a cheap MacBook — that's bad news for Windows

A sub-$800 MacBook is reportedly in the works, targeting the midrange PC market, notorious for its lackluster hardware. If true, Windows OEMs are in trouble.

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I made 21 tweaks in Windows 11 to increase gaming performance — and they worked

On Windows 11, you can configure a slew of settings and features to improve gaming performance. In this guide, I'll show you 21 ways to optimize your PC.

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Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is a Soulslike RPG that's coming to Xbox Game Pass — after playing it, I still have these concerns

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is a brutal Soulslike action-RPG. After going hands-on at Summer Game Fest 2025, I still have some concerns.

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Marvel Rivals Season 3 is bringing Blade and Phoenix — but I need this balance issue fixed

Marvel Rivals Season 3 is bringing Blade and Phoenix, but I still need balance issues resolved for my poor main, Thor.

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Can OpenAI’s mandatory week-long break fend off Meta’s $100 million talent grab? — "Someone has broken into our home"

After Meta successfully poached a handful of OpenAI's top talent, the ChatGPT maker has sent its staff on a mandatory week-long break.

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Sam Altman says his CEO ouster "wasn't the craziest thing that would happen in OpenAl's history" — neither will Meta's $100 million raid on the firm's top AI talent

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has broken his silence on Meta's aggressive poaching campaign for its top AI talent.

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Microsoft has a new way to use AI in OneNote — but a "dumb" feature excites me more

Microsoft recently added Copilot Notebooks to OneNote, but a fix for blurry content might be more useful in daily life.

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"I want to support the sweaty boys!" — Fallout: New Vegas director says it's a "mistake" to trade RPG crunch for "super accessible" gameplay, and he's right

Obsidian Entertainment's Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer says it would be a "mistake" to get rid of RPG depth and "crunch" in pursuit of approachability.

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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 is coming to Xbox Game Pass soon — and one of the service's biggest-ever hits is returning, too

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 is coming to Xbox Game Pass soon, while Squanch Games' High on Life is returning to the subscription service in July.

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Minecraft’s 'Vibrant Visuals' side-by-side comparison pics — Here’s what it gets right and where it falls short

I played Minecraft with Vibrant Visuals enabled on my Xbox Series X and Series X. This upgrade makes the game feel more alive, but it still needs some improvements.

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My son's been bugging me to play Minecraft for six years — this one mod could finally make me do it

Minecraft is usually played either first-person or third-person, but what about a top down, ARPG style view such as we had with Minecraft Dungeons?

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Rejoice, PC gamers: this Steam feature just got a massive update — here's how to use it and how it works

Steam's built-in performance tracking tool has been outdated for a long time, but Valve has just given it a massive overhaul in a new update. Here's how to use it.

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Minecraft is reviving a dead Mob Vote loser and actually making copper useful in 2025's third update

Mojang Studios has announced the first features for the third Minecraft Game Drop of the year, and it includes the Copper Golem from 2021's Minecraft Mob Vote.

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False alarm! Microsoft rectifies language that implied Windows may have lost millions of users since Windows 11 debut

The company quietly updated a blog post published last week correcting the number of Windows devices currently in use today to "over 1.4 billion," 400 million up from the "over 1 billion" it originally published.

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Intel’s former CEO speaks out — "I wanted to finish what I started"

Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says he wasn’t allowed to finish what he started and suggests the company forced him out before his turnaround was complete.

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A Microsoft engineer made a Linux distro that's like a comfort blanket to ex-Windows users — I finally tried it, and I'm surprised how good it is

This Linux distro is probably one of the best places to start if you're a long time Windows user, in no small part due to it being built by a Microsoft engineer.

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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 — Release date, price, Career Mode, Skaters, Platforms and everything you need to know

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 is an upcoming Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, and PC remake of two of the most beloved skateboarding games of the PlayStation 2-era. Here's everything you need to know about this highly anticipated two-pack remake.

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Mark Zuckerberg announces Meta Superintelligence Labs — with a battalion of AI gurus poached from OpenAI, Google, and DeepMind to try and secure an AGI win

Mark Zuckerberg recently shared an internal memo announcing Meta Superintelligence Labs as he plays catch-up with OpenAI and Google in the AI race.

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Microsoft's new AI can be 4x more accurate and 20% cheaper than human doctors — Mustafa Suleyman calls it "a genuine step toward medical superintelligence"

Microsoft recently claimed that its new powerful AI-powered tool can diagnose diseases up to four times more accurately than a human doctor.

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FFXIV just released the worst Online Store microtransactions I've ever seen — the set costs more than Dawntrail itself, and players have had enough

Square Enix's latest addition to the FFXIV Online Store is the Belt-Leather attire set, and in total, it costs more than Dawntrail itself.

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"Speculation is always fun" — Halo Studios says fans won't want to miss this year's championship in October

Halo Studios is teasing updates on multiple projects, sharing that fans won't want to miss the Halo World Championship in October.

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I'm grateful The Witcher 4 isn't following this annoying RPG trend — a key Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3 policy lives on with the sequel

The Witcher 4 dev CD PROJEKT RED has confirmed it's following the same "no fetch quest" policy it had for The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077, and I'm grateful.

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Marc Benioff says "AI is doing 30-50% of the work at Salesforce now" — after debating software engineer hires due to incredible productivity gains from agentic AIs

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff revealed that AI is doing up to half of the work at his company right now.

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"We should have simply let you know" — The Alters creators respond to generative AI controversy

Critically acclaimed game The Alters finds itself in hot water following the discovery of undisclosed generative AI use, but 11 Bit Studios has already issued a statement apologizing to fans.

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