Hey, I'm Richard Devine. As the Managing Editor at Windows Central, I spend my days (and way too many nights) looking at Windows, PCs, open-source, and the latest in gaming.
While I live in Windows, my heart is often in the terminal. I love open-source software and spend a lot of time digging through GitHub to find the next "must-have" tool that most people haven't heard of yet. Whether it's perfecting a WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) workflow or helping bridge the gap between Windows and Linux, I’m all about finding ways to make our PCs do more.
When the work laptop closes, the gaming PC stays on. I’ve spent more hours than I’d like to admit in the dark streets of The Division 2, chasing the perfect line in Forza Horizon, or keeping up with the ever-changing meta in Call of Duty.
For me, it’s not just about playing the games it’s also about the community that keeps them alive. I’m here to make sure you have the best info, the neatest tools, and a better experience every time you hit the power button.
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Xbox Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is the first to drop support for Xbox One and PS4, and as a result, Warzone is shutting down on last-gen consoles. Here's what you need to know.

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News GTA 6 is skipping physical releases on Xbox and PlayStation, but ironically its soundtrack will be available on a physical format first introduced in 1948.

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Gaming It's that time of year again where Call of Duty players go back to older games while waiting for the new one, and how did I miss this?

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Gaming Black Ops Cold War has just joined Game Pass, and a long-standing graphics issue has come back to light. It's unlikely to ever get fixed, but you can work around it.

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Gaming Call of Duty: Warzone will be integrated with Modern Warfare 4, but not right away. Here's what we know about what's happening and when we think it's going to happen.

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Gaming There's a new Call of Duty game upon us in Modern Warfare 4, so let's break down exactly what items you can carry forward into the new game from Black Ops 7.

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Gaming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 will be letting some players in to play early, but only the campaign. Here's everything you need to know.

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News GameSir has come out and defended itself against misinformation about "built-in cheats" in its controllers, because the internet is a terrible place.

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Gaming Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is the latest legacy title to be added to Xbox Game Pass, and I think it might be the game to play right now, even with Modern Warfare 4 looming.

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Xbox Kinect Adventures is a blast from the past, but the fun Xbox 360 game is the focus of a quite extraordinary collection.

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News NVIDIA has announced a massive acquisition of an AI company pushing $13 billion in value, reinforcing its focus nowadays as an AI company over everything else.

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News In a world where everything is getting more expensive, it's extra nice to see a solid new mid-range laptop from Samsung with a mid-range price to go with it.

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News Xbox Series X25 preorders went live today, and judging by community feedback it did not go well. Meanwhile scalpers seem to have come out laughing.

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News As Xbox announces its disc-to-digital program beginning soon, it looks like some PC gamers are going in the opposite direction.

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News Ubisoft has officially announced its teased Central Park-themed DLC for The Division 2, with a full reveal to come in September.

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Opinion After my first Modern Warfare 4 playtest I immediately thought my previous trepidation about this year's Call of Duty was unfounded. So how's it panned out after a weekend playing the beta?

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Opinion I was prepared to miss this year's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 release because I generally don't like the series. But I might have been wrong on that.

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Keyboards Windows Central tests and reviews the latest and greatest gaming keyboards to help you make the best possible decision for your gaming setup.

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On this Day A look back at Xbox’s 2015 “games everywhere” vision — the moment Phil Spencer sketched out a future that Asha Sharma is now fully realizing 11 years later.

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Apps I used to just rip CDs using the stock Media Player app on Windows 11, but after a while away from it, boy, is it a letdown. But I found the app I should have been using all along.

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News Canonical, the makers of Ubuntu, have outlined the crazy growth of the Linux distro on WSL, saying it will soon outpace users of its own native desktop OS.

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Gaming The patch notes will take longer to read than the update will to download, but there's one important change to highlight from the recent betas.

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Xbox One of the criticisms leveled at Halo: Campaign Evolved was its stylistic choice to use film grain and chromatic aberration and not allow them to be turned off. Fortunately, that's going to change.

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Xbox As we're led into a digital future where we'll own nothing, what about ignoring it and buying movies on Blu-ray again. Where the old Xbox One S remains an excellent value 4K UHD Blu-ray player.
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