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Microsoft shuts down the Windows 10 Beta Channel just five months after reopening it

With less than a year to go before Windows 10 bites the dust, Microsoft has announced that the Insider Beta Channel is once again shutting down.

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If you haven't come back to Diablo 4 yet, Blizzard has just made it really easy for you to catch up and even try out the Spiritborn class for free

Blizzard have just announced a bunch of new updates to tempt back old players, from Welcome Back packs to boos characters and a chance to try the Spiritborn without purchasing Vessel of Hatred.

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Will STALKER 2 be fully open world?

The highly anticipated survival horror shooter STALKER 2 sounds like it'll be huge, but is it technically an open world game? Here's what GSC says.

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One of the next big first-party Xbox games is coming to Battle.net, and it's getting a special steelbook edition

Obsidian Entertainment's Avowed is launching day one on Blizzard Entertainment's PC storefront Battle.net.

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OpenAI will reportedly join the Microsoft/Salesforce AI agentic war with 'Operator' in January 2025: "I think 2025 is going to be the year that agentic systems finally hit the mainstream"

OpenAI will reportedly ship an AI agent called Operator in January 2025. The AI agent is designed to control computers and perform redundant tasks autonomously.

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Windows 11's Instant Games experience is no longer instant

The Microsoft Store just launched its Instant Games experience that lets you play roughly 70 games without having to download or install them.

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Xbox partners with unlikely companies to show you (almost) everything is an Xbox

Microsoft's new Xbox ad emphasizes all the different devices that can be used as an Xbox, such as a Samsung TV or a Meta Quest 3 headset.

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Razer's latest docking station promises better gaming performance with a dedicated wireless dongle port... and 13 more beside that

The Razer USB4 Dock is official, and it costs less than Razer's Thunderbolt 4 dock while costing less, while also having a dedicated port for your wireless dongle.

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Microsoft Copilot is the poster child of 'an annoying kid in class' — a 24-hour excursion in the woods by the WSJ with four chatbots reveals which AI ranks the best, and the answer may surprise you

The Wall Street Journal's Joanna Stern audaciously brought OpenAI's ChatGPT, Meta AI, Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot to a 24-hour excursion in the woods. Here's how it went.

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I played Xbox's greatest failure to see if it's really as bad as everyone says it is

I finally played Redfall from Xbox and Arkane to see if it's really as bad as everyone says it is... And I wasn't surprised to find that no, it isn't.

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An ambitious and gritty third-person shooter in a unified Korea is headed to Xbox Game Pass

Project TH is a third-person action-adventure game set in a near-future unified Korea, blending political intrigue with intense combat announced for Xbox Game Pass on day one.

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Windows 11 takes small step to fix the horrible new Outlook app

A new build of Windows 11 just shipped to Insiders in the Canary Channel. The update improves Narrator and includes several fixes. It also improves the new Outlook app a bit.

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Microsoft FINALLY releases Windows 11 ISOs for Arm64-based PCs — but there's a catch

The time has finally come! After dragging its feet for years, Microsoft has finally released the first official Windows 11 ISOs for PCs with an Arm64 processor

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Xbox AI transparency report reveals 19 million toxic messages blocked, and improved player safety in Minecraft and Call of Duty: Black Ops 6

Xbox has published its latest AI transparency report, highlighting how artificial intelligence has been used to block over 19 million harmful messages across the platform, and how AI-driven moderation tools have been essential in improving player safety in game like Minecraft and Call of Duty.

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How to span storage to multiple drives on Windows 11

On Windows 11, you can use the Settings app and Disk Management tool to combine multiple drives to span a volume to make it appear as a single large drive in File Explorer, and in this guide, I will explain the steps on how to complete this configuration.

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Here's exactly what time you can play the Black Ops 6 update to Call of Duty: Warzone

Black Ops 6 and Warzone are finally being integrated, so here's exactly when you'll be able to play.

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How much does Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 DLC cost?

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 players can expect at least a year of post-launch content for the game, but how much does all that new content cost? The answer is surprisingly little, unless you're paying out for microtransactions.

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OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic hit the critical knowledge cap for advanced AI training—Is AGI still in the ChatGPT maker's pipeline in the next five years?

A new report suggests OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic have encountered critical issues, including a lack of high-quality training data and sufficient resources to develop and maintain advanced AI models.

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Sam Altman claims AGI will whoosh by in 5 years with "surprisingly little" societal change, while Anthropic CEO predicts a 2026 or 2027 breakthrough: "There's no ceiling below the level of humans...there's a lot of room at the top for AIs"

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claims AGI will whoosh by in 5 years while Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicts a 2026 or 2027 breakthrough.

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"The goal is never to see a degradation in our story quality." World of Warcraft turns 20: Discussing the future with Blizzard on Mythic+ progression, class balance, Undermine, and the decades-awaited Player Housing feature

World of Warcraft turned 20 this year, as Warcraft itself turns 30. We spoke to Warcraft game director Ion Hazzikostas and Assistant Lead Quest Designer Mark Colada on what the future holds.

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Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer plays coy about Black Myth: Wukong on Xbox

Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer has been asked about whether or not Xbox players will get to play Black Myth: Wukong.

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"We think about the Xbox platform as the Xbox console, PC and cloud. We want them to be Play Anywhere." Microsoft strives to bring more Windows PC games to Xbox while hitting as "many screens as possible"

Microsoft looks to continue and even ramp up its focus on releasing its games across the Xbox ecosystem.

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What do punching Nazis, Xbox, and fluffy breakfast have in common? A lot, it turns out.

Xbox and IHOP partnered together to create a menu inspired by Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. IHOP will also host sweepstakes with custom Xbox-themed prizes, including an Xbox Series X.

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"Massive roadblocks" with Microsoft explained as ZeniMax QA employee union goes on strike — here's what the workers are asking for

ZeniMax quality assurance testers are striking for a day to get Microsoft to meet their demands around remote and outsourced work.

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SHADOW-DROP ALERT — Warcraft 1 and 2 Remastered and the long-awaited 2.0 patch update for Warcraft 3: Reforged have just launched on PC for Warcraft's 30th anniversary

During the Warcraft 30th Anniversary Direct, Blizzard shadow-dropped the Warcraft Battle Chest, a collection of the original RTS Warcraft games outfitted with remastered visuals and quality-of-life features.

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