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- June 20
- June 19
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- Surface Laptop 7 is $500 off — the best Copilot+ PC just got easier to recommend
- This free Windows tool recreates Circle to Search on Windows and Linux
- Microsoft Surface PC prices drop at Best Buy for a limited time — up to $500 off new models and $1,000 off refurbs
- Gears of War: Reloaded is Steam Deck Verified — take Marcus Fenix on the go with the world's most popular gaming handheld
- "So many amazing Forgers have just given up" — Halo Infinite just lost its best Forge creators over lack of support
- Microsoft kicks off testing its new GIF maker — right inside Windows 11
- Microsoft discovers how most employees feel trapped in an infinite workday — bleeding into weekends and "making Sunday feel like just another Monday"
- New Elden Ring Nightreign update adds 'Everdark Sovereign' bosses — I hope you're ready to get wrecked all over again
- "In this next chapter with Xbox, we’re not just pushing pixels. We’re reimagining what’s possible" — AMD comments on its partnership with Microsoft
- Microsoft killed Xbox VR — and this latest PlayStation PSVR news shows they were probably right to have done so
- Does ChatGPT make you stupid? MIT study suggests people who rely on AI tools are worse off.
- The Division 2 dev team is teasing something "entirely new" for the game — another new game mode incoming?
- Steam's performance tracking tool is becoming more like the Steam Deck's — you can try it out right now
- One of World of Warcraft's deadliest entities makes a world-shattering return after nearly 20 years — and he's city-sized
- Microsoft could ditch OpenAI's high-stake for-profit talks: “Holding out is Microsoft’s nuclear option, and they are just making OpenAI sweat"
- June 18
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- This free Steam 'game' is being played more than Stellar Blade and Elden Ring Nightreign — even though it's just a cat
- Report: Microsoft set to slash thousands more jobs in July — sales teams in the crosshairs
- “I just throw myself at them ... like monkeys and typewriters.” I love that the Elden Ring movie director is one us, he's actually on his 7th playthrough
- Sam Altman claims Meta is trying to poach OpenAI staffers with $100 million bonuses, but "none of our best people have decided to take them up on that"
- This PC app boosts FPS in any game on any GPU for only $7 — and it just got a major update
- With Windows 10 circling the drain, Windows 11 sees a long-overdue surge
- Xbox has turned a corner — the future for Microsoft's gaming platform once again looks incredibly bright
- This hidden tool will help you migrate from Windows 10 to Windows 11
- Razer sent me "gamer" snacks and a lamp — so I found out how they taste
- Microsoft’s Windows 95 testing phase was so intense that it crashed cash registers with over $10,000 worth of software
- Sam Altman says OpenAI could need a "significant fraction" of the Earth's power for future artificial intelligence computing
- Hades 2 gets another major update bringing new art, godly powers, and romance as Supergiant gets ready for the game's full release
- June 17
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- Xbox Game Pass gets all three Warcraft remasters, another Call of Duty game, and more
- Borderlands 4’s PC specs demand serious power — over half of Steam's users may need an upgrade
- Bungie's Marathon delayed past September release date as a darker tone, proximity chat, and more are being added
- Microsoft and AMD have officially entered a new multi-year partnership for first-party Xbox hardware — here's what that really means
- Poll: YouTube’s ad blocker war — has Big Stream finally crossed the line?
- 'No aggressive monetization' — Nexus Mods' new ownership responds to worried members
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a masterpiece — even if I shamelessly skipped parts of it
- Microsoft expands its Sovereign Cloud as Europe demands greater data control
- Xbox Ally price rumors — what it might cost and what I’ve heard so far
- June 16
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- Tensions boil as OpenAI execs reportedly accuse Microsoft of anticompetitive behavior as partnership frays
- To catch up with ChatGPT, Google reportedly cribbed OpenAI's homework to boost Gemini's AI game
- Is Microsoft killing physical Xbox games? Between The Outer Worlds 2 and Gears of War: Reloaded, I'm worried
- Borderlands 4 just revealed its price — it's not all good news
- Ads and paywalls? WhatsApp might have just lost its unique selling point
- I hope this PowerToys redesign becomes a reality — it's too easy to get lost in the app
- PlayStation hit Stellar Blade just blew past a huge Steam PC sales milestone under a week after launch
- Governments are ditching Windows and Microsoft Office — new letter reveals the "real costs of switching to Windows 11"
- I paid $40 for Rocket League without the cars — REMATCH launches early, but some players are unhappy with the game
- 'Incoming sub model!' — PC gamers react to Nexus Mods ownership change
- Google is waging war on ad blockers — throttling YouTube to force users back in line
- Windows Hello face unlock no longer works in the dark, and Microsoft says it's not a bug
- uBlock Origin ships to Edge for Android as Google kills it on Chrome
- Windows 11 news and updates in June: Microsoft's AI agent in Settings makes adjusting your PC easier than ever
- Funny Windows 11 bug brings back classic Windows boot sound from 20 years ago
- June 14
- June 13
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- It's about time: Sony PlayStation finally gets rid of PC game region locks after an entire year — but some still remain
- This could be the versatile laptop accessory I've been waiting for — Here's why it stands out from other portable monitors
- New code strings attached to Xbox Game Pass suggests a price increase may be imminent
- From The Editor's Desk — new Windows Central community features, we'd like to hear from you!
- OneDrive for Mac will soon give you more flexible storage options
- Windows Central Podcast: Xbox Ally is official, and Aero Glass is back?
- The Gears of War Reloaded beta is upon us, here's how you can take part
- Minecraft Vibrant Visuals finally has a release date and it's dropping with the Happy Ghasts
- 5 things we didn't get from the Xbox Games Showcase, because Xbox obviously hates me personally
- Sam Altman says "OpenAI was forced to do a lot of unnatural things" to meet the Ghibli memes demand surge
- Microsoft Copilot's own default configuration exposed users to the first-ever "zero-click" AI attack, but there was no data breach
- June 12
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- Hollow Knight: Silksong boldly teases DLC before even giving a release date, and fans are poking fun to hide the pain: "Sure hope this DLC doesn't turn into a full fledged game that takes 8 years to develop"
- Xbox and PC's best L4D alternative has a new class gameplay video for you
- The Steam store just got a big update with great new features — here's what was added
- "I wish everybody could play my game." The Outer Worlds 2 director doesn't like its $80 price tag either, and says it was an Xbox decision
- Silent Hill 1 remake in development at Konami and Bloober Team, but will it come to Xbox?
- Copilot Vision just launched — and Microsoft already added new features
- With WH40K Boltgun and Dungeons of Hinterberg, this month's Humble Choice lineup is stacked for less than $12
- Surface Pro 11 with Snapdragon X Elite drops to lowest price ever
- I've covered AI since the days of Bing Chat, and this is the first AI feature I consider a must-have
- Steam Deck OLED falls out of stock in US & Canada due to "supply chain constraints" presumably triggered by tariffs — but the price won't increase
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 now lets you rematch the game's most brutal boss
- OpenAI shifts to Google for cloud computing support as Microsoft partnership falters, despite Sam Altman's "compute-sufficient" claim
- NVIDIA chief rebuffs Anthropic's AI slashing 50% of entry-level white collar jobs from Gen Z claim: "He thinks AI is so scary, but only they should do it."
- June 11
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- This Dell PC was “possibly the best value for its price range of any Windows laptop” — now it’s $350 off
- This dev launched his game on Xbox Game Pass, but warns that others shouldn't — here's why
- As game prices rise, this excellent Hall Effect controller just dropped in price
- Of course you can already play WWE 2K25 as Mr. Iguana
- Epic crossover: Age of Empires joins forces with the world's most popular museum for a historic exhibit
- Microsoft Build says goodbye to Seattle — drugs, crime, and homelessness allegedly to blame
- Maingear's new 18-inch powerhouse has one feature I've never seen on another gaming laptop
- Apple Intelligence delay: A clash of two architectures and trivial AI features fell short of standards and expectations
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claims "ChatGPT is already more powerful than any human who has ever lived"
- June 10
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- "I want to give players something new": The Outer Worlds 2 game director says the sequel will have a "darker tone," and I'm all for it
- Xbox's Call of Duty devs say "we're committed" to Nintendo Switch 2 releases, but what about Black Ops 7?
- How I deleted 10,767 emails in one week with Outlook
- My favorite band and my favorite game studio are both weirdly taking me to the same fictional place this year
- The Xbox Ally gaming handheld would be perfect to me, if it wasn't for this one thing
- "Ad blockers are not allowed": Google escalates its battle against ad-blockers to push YouTube Premium’s $14/month subscriptions
- PSA: I need people to know the ROG 'Xbox Ally' is Xbox by name and software experience only — It is a full Windows PC, you can install *anything* you want on it
- Windows Mixed Reality is being resurrected by a lone Microsoft employee
- Xbox is the only console that can play all mainline Final Fantasy games
- Apple researchers claim OpenAI's o3 model is an "illusion of thinking", inconsistent with a human's thought process
- Windows 11's new Start menu is ready for testing, and it's a massive upgrade
- Apple unveils Liquid Glass at WWDC, but all I see is a sorry version of Aero Glass
- ChatGPT is back (mostly)! OpenAI outage ends as services recover. (Update)
- Windows 11 on Arm now has enough native apps that most users are spending the majority of their time in them, says Arm
- June 9
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- I can't believe we're already getting a sequel to one of the best survival games ever — and I doubly can't believe how much it'll cost
- "Everyone knows we have to do it." The FAA shockingly still uses Windows 95 and floppy disks for air traffic control, but now that's changing
- The OLED AI laptop I can't recommend enough just hit its lowest price ever
- "We are not tied to a console release." We got Hollow Knight: Silksong release date news after all, but it had nothing to do with Xbox Ally
- Microsoft Copilot will soon help you prioritize emails in Outlook
- ChatGPT resurrects bricked Android tablet with Windows 10 — Is AI the future of DIY tech repair?
- Your Xbox can now store everything — if you sell a kidney first
- The Xbox Ally handheld REALLY needs to be priced competitively with the Steam Deck, otherwise it might be hard to recommend
- Microsoft wants AI to read your browser history — but there's one reason not to worry
- Google CEO says AGI is impossible with today's tech, but Sam Altman claims "you'll be happy to have a new device"
- "We were too confident": Steve Ballmer says Microsoft's paranoia and overconfidence fumbled $400 billion in Windows Phone
- Dune: Awakening hits a concurrent player milestone before the game officially launches — overtaking DOOM, Veilguard, Assassin's Creed, and other major titles
- June 8
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- "Celebrate 25 years of Xbox with ... a classic that's been with us since the beginning." Did Phil Spencer just tease a new Halo game for 2026?
- 7 things you need to know from Xbox's The Outer Worlds 2 Direct, plus juicy Grounded 2 details for Obsidian's other sequel
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide unleashes a violent gameplay reveal for the new upcoming Arbites Class
- Berserk or Die is a new game published by Poncle, creators of Vampire Survivors
- The era of $80 Xbox games has officially arrived, there's no hiding from it now
- You can get a Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 themed reward in Black Ops 6 right now, but you have to be quick
- Double Fine announced its new game, and I'm so ready to play as a sentient lighthouse
- A new game from the team behind Spiritfarer was just unveiled during the Xbox Games Showcase
- Gears of War: E-Day is coming in 2026, as Phil Spencer shares an update during Xbox Games Showcase 2025
- There is no Forza Horizon 6 this year, but Phil Spencer did tease it for the Xbox 25th anniversary in 2026
- All 17 Xbox Game Pass games shown at the Xbox Games Showcase 2025
- The rumored Persona 4 Remake has now been officially announced for Xbox, Xbox Game Pass, and PC Game Pass as 'Persona 4 Revival'
- Final Fantasy VII Remake and Final Fantasy XVI are FINALLY launching for Xbox consoles — One of which is available right now!
- "The full Call of Duty package": Black Ops 7 has been confirmed during the Xbox Games Showcase, and no, it is not an expansion
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 demo now is available now if you preorder — Michelangelo is coming too
- Xbox Games Showcase reveals Indiana Jones and the Great Circle to get new DLC this fall
- There Are No Ghosts at the Grand announced at Xbox Games Showcase 2025, a cozy musical adventure with eldritch horror comes to Game Pass
- Grounded 2 announced by Obsidian Entertainment at Xbox Games Showcase 2025, and it's launching this year
- Clockwork Revolution returns at the Xbox Games Showcase 2025, with a new look at the time-bending RPG
- Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy confirmed at the Xbox Games Showcase
- The Outer Worlds 2 kicks off the Xbox Games Showcase with a release date reveal and a jazzy trailer
- In perhaps even bigger news than the 'Xbox Ally' handheld itself, Microsoft is starting to revamp Windows 11 to boost PC gaming
- The 'Xbox Ally' and 'Xbox Ally X' are super-charged PC gaming handhelds from ASUS, coming later this year — Kennan revealed!
- Mecha Break, the Xbox console exclusive, finally gets a release date during the Summer Game Fest
- Stranger than Heaven gets a proper name as Yakuza creator showcases their next game
- Xbox Games Showcase 2025: As it happened, all the games, trailers, announcements, and more | Xbox Ally handheld revealed!
- June 7
- June 6
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- Resident Evil Requiem is taking us back to Raccoon City when it launches next February
- Techland drops a new trailer for Dying Light: The Beast with a release date during Summer Game Fest
- ARC Raiders just dropped another trailer and release date during Summer Game Fest
- Surprise, 'Lies of P' first DLC Overture is out right now on Xbox and PC. No, it's true!
- That one game I reviewed with the sexy robots officially announced a sequel during Summer Game Fest 2025
- The Last of Us voice actor's new role is a Mickey Mouse-like detective — I think the rubber hose animation perfectly fits this FPS Boomer Shooter
- Mortal Shell 2 was Summer Game Fest's first banger announcement, and the Soulslike sequel is getting a beta before release
- Every Xbox and PC game announced during the Xbox Games Showcase and Summer Game Fest in 2025
- "The Chinese player base is the holy grail": Tencent buys 15.75% stake in Helldivers 2 dev Arrowhead as huge profit numbers emerge
- Summer Game Fest 2025 & Xbox Games Showcase LIVE: Mortal Shell 2, body horror 'Ill', Onimusha, and RESIDENT EVIL 9 HAS BEEN REVEALED [ENDED]
- You can now buy two Nintendo Switch 2 consoles for the price of one ROG Ally X
- PC Gaming Show returns June 8 — here's when and how to watch the show
- MSI Claw owners need to grab this Intel Arc GPU driver update to fix an irritating audio bug on their Windows 11 handhelds
- Dune: Awakening is already making big waves before it's even fully released
- This new third-party Xbox controller is more than just a floral reskin
- I wish this version of the Microsoft Store shipped 10 years ago
- Windows Central Podcast: Is Windows in trouble?
- Multiple reports suggest a Persona 4 Remake from Atlus will be announced during the Xbox Games Showcase
- Satya Nadella says Microsoft makes money every time you use ChatGPT: "Every day that ChatGPT succeeds is a fantastic day"
- Reddit wants to sue Anthropic for stealing its data, but the Claude AI manufacturers vow to "defend ourselves vigorously"
- Black Myth: Wukong is coming to Xbox exactly one year after launching on PlayStation
- June 5
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- I'm surprised Helldivers 2 has a new Warbond already, and it's adding a stratagem I've wanted for ages — here's everything in it
- Microsoft threatens Windows 10 users to upgrade to be on the “right side of risk”
- "A boys' club above the law." Former Ubisoft bosses face trial in France for sexual harassment and aggressive conduct. Here are the allegations.
- 'Final Fantasy Tactics' highlights the lack of organic growth for Xbox Play Anywhere and the Xbox PC store
- Xbox Game Pass gets Space Marine remaster, FBC: Firebreak, another Activision game, and more
- Why chase a Nintendo Switch 2 when the Lenovo Legion Go is $200 off, in stock, and runs Windows 11 or SteamOS?
- Microsoft backed this $1.5 billion AI startup that was just discovered to be 700 engineers pretending to be AI
- Windows Insiders in the Canary Channel just got an update, but still can't use Click to Do or Windows Recall
- Xbox just quietly added two of the best RPGs of all time to Game Pass
- Anthropic researchers say next-generation AI models will reduce humans to "meat robots" in a spectrum of crazy futures
- Google's DeepMind CEO lists 2 AGI existential risks to society keeping him up at night — but claims "today's AI systems" don't warrant a pause on development
- June 4
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- 007 First Light shows off a new take on James Bond, and it's coming to Xbox and PC in 2026
- Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles has been revealed for Xbox and PC, along with a release date
- The next big Silent HIll game is coming to Xbox and PC sooner than you think
- Every PC and Xbox game shown during Sony's PlayStation State of Play June 2025
- Deltarune Chapters 3 and 4 are finally here with a full release that's blowing up Steam right now — I'm finally ready to play the Undertale follow-up
- Dune: Awakening (briefly) overtakes Elden Ring Nightreign days before it officially launches
- One of Xbox Game Pass best-kept secrets is getting a cybernetic hound that is your best friend and your enemy's worst nightmare
- LinkedIn's CEO just got a new job at Microsoft, and he didn't even need to use the 'Open to Work' badge
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's developer is about to get a whole lot bigger, and I can't wait to see its next game
- Increasingly, it looks like 'Xbox PC' is the official branding for Microsoft's Windows 11 gaming store, apps, and services
- Microsoft Edge for Android will copy this Google Chrome feature for private browsing
- One of Linux's big hitters declares your Windows 10 PC "is toast," and one angle needs talking about MUCH more
- 'The budget card to beat right now' — Radeon RX 9060 XT reviews are in, and it looks like a win for AMD
- No longer a student? This Microsoft 365 deal is perfect for recent graduates.
- Console UX on a Windows PC gaming handheld? 'Winhanced' wants to beat Microsoft and Xbox to the punch.
- One of Microsoft's biggest hardware partners joins its "bold strategy, Cotton" moment over upgrading to Windows 11, suggesting everyone just buys a Copilot+ PC
- Sam Altman's ouster from OpenAI was so dramatic that it's apparently becoming a movie — Will we finally get the full story?
- In Sam Altman's world, the perfect AI would be "a very tiny model with superhuman reasoning capabilities" for any context
- Players aren't buying Call of Duty's "error" excuse for the ads Activision started forcing into the game's menus recently
- June 3
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- The real story behind Steve Ballmer's "Developers!" chant — a concoction of Microsoft's flawed "just a platform company" culture and a dire need to collaborate with third-party developers
- People are using ChatGPT to generate pictures of their perfect match based on looks — mine just made my brother
- "This isn't good enough": The Elden Ring Nightreign Digital Foundry tech review is here, and both Xbox and PS5 players will be disappointed by the results
- I still hate the new Outlook, but it's more tolerable after this update
- Elden Ring Nightreign devs promise duos mode and "enhanced" boss fights along with DLC, but this core feature is still missing
- NVIDIA RTX GPUs can't get past the 'Hell Is Us' demo intro without crashing — developer offers a temporary fix
- Alienware's rumored laptop could be the first to feature NVIDIA's revolutionary Arm-based APU
- Razer's having another go at making it so you never have to charge your wireless gaming mouse, and this time it might have nailed it
- The Witcher 4 looks absolutely amazing in UE5 technical presentation at State of Unreal 2025
- SteelSeries reveals new Arctis Nova 3 Wireless headset series for Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, and PC
- 'I don't know if it can be saved' — Civilization 7 is in trouble as it drops to a Mostly Negative rating on Steam
- "I hired basically everybody": Steve Ballmer almost sold all his Microsoft stock, trying to emotionally detach from the tech giant
- Microsoft lays off another 305 employees, this time closer to home
- Hollow Knight: Silksong fever grows again as we approach Summer Game Fest — will it finally get a release date?
- Windows 11 will finally stop nagging you to set Edge as your default browser — but only in some markets
- June 2
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- The year of the ninja continues with SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance's latest combat trailer, coming to Xbox and PC
- It's time to replace your Windows 10 PC — these AI laptops with all-day battery life start at $599 for a limited time
- Summer Game Fest 2025 & Xbox Games Showcase LIVE: Code Vein 2 revealed, Mortal Shell 2 looks AMAZING, and indie games rule
- Windows 11's biggest update in months also includes a major fix for gaming
- Microsoft just made Sora AI video generation free via new Bing Video Creator
- Xbox vows to improve PC gaming as Microsoft restores critical 'inetpub' folder: Windows 11 news and updates
- IO Interactive's James Bond game is titled 007 First Light, and it's being revealed this week
- These solid-state fans will revolutionize cooling in our PCs and laptops
- UK civil servants saved 24 minutes per day using Microsoft Copilot, saving two weeks each per year according to a new report
- The 4TB Seagate Xbox Expansion Card is now official — and officially overpriced. Grab 2TB for half the cost.
- 'Two firm promises of USB-C on Windows 11' — How Microsoft plans to eliminate connectivity confusion
- Days after Putin threatened to "throttle" Teams, Microsoft's subsidiary in Russia will file for bankruptcy
- The Xbox 4TB storage card has reappeared at Best Buy and it's still VERY expensive
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