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The VALORANT Xbox beta is now open to all players, with exclusive benefits for Xbox Game Pass subscribers
By Zachary Boddy published
Open Season After a few weeks of closed beta testing, VALORANT for Xbox is opening its doors to more players, with bonuses for Xbox Game Pass subscribers.
Despite bankruptcy scares, OpenAI enters the search engine fold to rival Google and Microsoft with Sam Altman indicating that "there is room to make search much better than it is today."
By Kevin Okemwa published
SEARCHGPT OpenAI debuts SearchGPT to take on Google with "fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources."
(Update) The First Descendant decides nerfing the best weapons and patching fun exploits is for lame live service games, adapts a different approach
By Zachary Boddy last updated
No Nerfs Nexon had committed to protecting player creations and discoveries in The First Descendant, but now it seems that Nexon told us wrong... Several times.
The First Descendant's next major content update is now coming even earlier, and we got our first look at the new Descendants
By Zachary Boddy published
Thirst Descendant Nexon has revealed that Update 5, the first major content update for The First Descendant, is now coming a day early (and showed off some of the content).
New Xbox Game Pass games (July 2024): What's coming, leaving soon
By Zachary Boddy last updated
New to XGP Every month means new Xbox Game Pass games. Keep track of everything coming and going with our comprehensive guide.
Microsoft wants to make future CrowdStrike outages impossible, and it could mean big changes for security software
By Sean Endicott published
Zero trust In response to the recent CrowdStirke outage, Microsoft appears to be interested in moving away from allowing security apps to have kernel access on Windows 11.
Massive Windows 11 update ships to Insiders in its last stop before rolling out to everyone
By Sean Endicott published
Windows Insiders can test a ton of new features that are likely on the way to everyone this autumn.
New Windows 11 feature lets you wirelessly browse your phone's filesystem directly within File Explorer
By Zac Bowden published
Filesystem Microsoft has announced a new feature that lets you browse your phone's filesystem directly in the Windows File Explorer.
Elon Musk calls Grok 'the most powerful AI by every metric' but 'secretly' trains the new model with your X data by default
By Kevin Okemwa published
DO BETTER X (formerly Twitter) quietly rolled out a new data-sharing experience that is enabled by default and uses your data to train Grok.
While you were out here trying to beat Elden Ring DLC with no summons, this player beat it on a dance mat — oh, and whilst playing two versions simultaneously
By Jennifer Young published
💃💃💃 Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss is unforgiving and aggressive, and FromSoftware's hardest yet. But this player just beat it on a dance mat, twice, at the same time.
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