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Tom Warren
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· Nov 11
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Merry Christmas! 🎄 If you’re visiting family today, remember to turn off motion smoothing on their TV 👍
December 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Merry Christmas! 🎄 If you’re visiting family today, remember to turn off motion smoothing on their TV 👍
Microsoft isn't rewriting Windows in Rust with AI, despite many reports about it over the past couple of days
December 24, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Microsoft isn't rewriting Windows in Rust with AI, despite many reports about it over the past couple of days
Vince Zampella, the co-creator of Call of Duty, has died in a car crash aged 55. Zampella was a video game titan, RIP www.theverge.com/news/849297/...
Call of Duty, Titanfall developer Vince Zampella has died at age 55
RIP.
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December 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Vince Zampella, the co-creator of Call of Duty, has died in a car crash aged 55. Zampella was a video game titan, RIP www.theverge.com/news/849297/...
this Honey scandal is another great reminder that you should always be wary of installing browser extensions. They’re a huge privacy risk, especially if they have permission to read all your browsing behavior www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwB3...
Honey Targeted Minors & Exploited Small Businesses
YouTube video by MegaLag
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December 22, 2025 at 3:47 AM
this Honey scandal is another great reminder that you should always be wary of installing browser extensions. They’re a huge privacy risk, especially if they have permission to read all your browsing behavior www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwB3...
8 is my daily and 7 and 9 on the go. How about you?
December 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
8 is my daily and 7 and 9 on the go. How about you?
Microsoft is now selling a Clippy pool floatie in its employee-only company store 😅
December 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Microsoft is now selling a Clippy pool floatie in its employee-only company store 😅
LG tells us that it will let users delete the Microsoft Copilot shortcut it installed on newer TVs recently. Reddit users spotted Copilot getting installed on their TVs last week, with no option to uninstall. That’s changing soon www.theverge.com/news/847685/...
LG forced a Copilot web app onto its TVs but will let you delete it
Microsoft No-pilot.
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December 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
LG tells us that it will let users delete the Microsoft Copilot shortcut it installed on newer TVs recently. Reddit users spotted Copilot getting installed on their TVs last week, with no option to uninstall. That’s changing soon www.theverge.com/news/847685/...
Riot Games found a motherboard security flaw that’s been helping PC cheaters. Motherboards from Asrock, Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI are affected, and you may need a BIOS update to keep playing Valorant www.theverge.com/news/847539/...
Riot Games found a motherboard security flaw that helps PC cheaters
Riot says a system’s “bouncer” was actually “asleep in the chair.”
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December 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Riot Games found a motherboard security flaw that’s been helping PC cheaters. Motherboards from Asrock, Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI are affected, and you may need a BIOS update to keep playing Valorant www.theverge.com/news/847539/...
Microsoft has added two Fallout-themed Dynamic Backgrounds for Xbox Series S / X owners
December 18, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Microsoft has added two Fallout-themed Dynamic Backgrounds for Xbox Series S / X owners
why does Philips Hue think it’s ok to add a sales banner ad to the top of the main section of their app? They also randomly do popup ads for new products when you open the app. I absolutely hate this kind of bullshit
December 16, 2025 at 2:15 AM
why does Philips Hue think it’s ok to add a sales banner ad to the top of the main section of their app? They also randomly do popup ads for new products when you open the app. I absolutely hate this kind of bullshit
Bungie is launching Marathon in March, priced at $40. It’s gonna be interesting to see how improved this extraction shooter is over the alpha version, especially as it’s now going up against the success of Arc Raiders www.theverge.com/news/844780/...
Bungie’s delayed shooter Marathon launches in March
Bungie also released a new look at the game.
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December 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Bungie is launching Marathon in March, priced at $40. It’s gonna be interesting to see how improved this extraction shooter is over the alpha version, especially as it’s now going up against the success of Arc Raiders www.theverge.com/news/844780/...
Wolves scored all 3 goals and lost. Very lucky 3 points for us tonight 😳
December 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Wolves scored all 3 goals and lost. Very lucky 3 points for us tonight 😳
Microsoft just announced some Xbox management changes. Xbox CFO Tim Stuart is now transitioning to COO of ZeniMax. Xavier Pokorzynski is now Microsoft Gaming CFO. Pokorzynski has been at Microsoft nearly 12 years, and has spent the past couple of years on the gaming finance side
December 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Microsoft just announced some Xbox management changes. Xbox CFO Tim Stuart is now transitioning to COO of ZeniMax. Xavier Pokorzynski is now Microsoft Gaming CFO. Pokorzynski has been at Microsoft nearly 12 years, and has spent the past couple of years on the gaming finance side
Arc Raiders picks up best multiplayer at the Game Awards. Well deserved for the team at Embark, who also did amazing multiplayer work with The Finals. I’m truly obsessed with Arc Raiders 👍
December 12, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Arc Raiders picks up best multiplayer at the Game Awards. Well deserved for the team at Embark, who also did amazing multiplayer work with The Finals. I’m truly obsessed with Arc Raiders 👍
the mystery statue for the Game Awards? It's the Hellstone, and it's part of Larian's new Divinity game that will be "even larger than Baldur's Gate 3"
December 12, 2025 at 1:26 AM
the mystery statue for the Game Awards? It's the Hellstone, and it's part of Larian's new Divinity game that will be "even larger than Baldur's Gate 3"
Star Wars Fate of the Old Republic is a new single player action RPG, directed by Casey Hudson
December 12, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Star Wars Fate of the Old Republic is a new single player action RPG, directed by Casey Hudson
Microsoft confirms an Xbox Developer Direct will be held in January 2026. Matt Booty says "we will feature Playground in the upcoming Dev Direct in January."
December 12, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Microsoft confirms an Xbox Developer Direct will be held in January 2026. Matt Booty says "we will feature Playground in the upcoming Dev Direct in January."
someone forgot to disable emote "on screen celebration" on the Twitch stream for The Game Awards 😅
December 12, 2025 at 12:40 AM
someone forgot to disable emote "on screen celebration" on the Twitch stream for The Game Awards 😅
another Xbox game is heading to PS5 and Switch 2. Compulsion Games' South of Midnight debuts on both the PS5 and Switch 2 in spring 2026
December 12, 2025 at 12:10 AM
another Xbox game is heading to PS5 and Switch 2. Compulsion Games' South of Midnight debuts on both the PS5 and Switch 2 in spring 2026
GPT-5.2 is here. OpenAI calls GPT-5.2 the best model yet for professionals, and says it “hallucinates less” and is more accurate than GPT-5.1 www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 is its latest front in the agentic AI battle
It “hallucinates less” than GPT-5.1, according to the company.
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December 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
GPT-5.2 is here. OpenAI calls GPT-5.2 the best model yet for professionals, and says it “hallucinates less” and is more accurate than GPT-5.1 www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
so many people are trying to redeem a free Arc Raiders backpack in the Nvidia app that the redeem section of the app is failing to load 🙃
December 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
so many people are trying to redeem a free Arc Raiders backpack in the Nvidia app that the redeem section of the app is failing to load 🙃
Activision is changing up its Call of Duty strategy after the Black Ops 7 launch didn't live up to the hype. Activision won't release back-to-back Call of Duty Modern Warfare or Black Ops releases anymore, as the strategy "going forward is changing" www.callofduty.com/blog/2025/12...
December 10, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Activision is changing up its Call of Duty strategy after the Black Ops 7 launch didn't live up to the hype. Activision won't release back-to-back Call of Duty Modern Warfare or Black Ops releases anymore, as the strategy "going forward is changing" www.callofduty.com/blog/2025/12...
today's Windows 11 update (KB5072033) fixes the white flash when you open File Explorer 👍
December 9, 2025 at 10:36 PM
today's Windows 11 update (KB5072033) fixes the white flash when you open File Explorer 👍
Microsoft is promising to focus on "performance fundamentals" for PC gaming on Windows 11. This includes a focus on background workload management, power and scheduling improvements, graphics stack optimizations, and updated drivers
December 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Microsoft is promising to focus on "performance fundamentals" for PC gaming on Windows 11. This includes a focus on background workload management, power and scheduling improvements, graphics stack optimizations, and updated drivers
Mico, Microsoft’s AI version of Clippy is now available in the UK and Canada. The animated virtual character is part of the voice mode in the Copilot app
December 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Mico, Microsoft’s AI version of Clippy is now available in the UK and Canada. The animated virtual character is part of the voice mode in the Copilot app