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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says it's time to stop talking about AI 'slop' and start talking about a 'theory of the mind that accounts for humans being equipped with these new cognitive amplifier tools'
By Andy Chalk published
news That sounds really neat man, could we have Arkane Austin back?

Former Elder Scrolls Online chief confirms Microsoft's 2025 bloodbath drove his departure from ZeniMax: 'Project Blackbird was the game I had waited my entire career to create'
By Andy Chalk published
news Matt Firor announced his split from ZeniMax Online Studios the same day Microsoft laid off roughly 9,000 employees and cancelled multiple game projects.

2026 may be year of the horse, but 2025 certainly gave it a good go with the amount of horse-related games, expansions, and updates we've had
By Kara Phillips published
Run wild Love thy neigh-bour

Microsoft's year of shame
By Wes Fenlon published
FFS Can't make a few trillion dollars without ditching game developers, going googoo gaga for AI and supplying tech to the military, I suppose!

They survived the MMO massacre of 2025, but 2026 is going to be a tense year for WoW and FF14: And for completely different reasons
By Harvey Randall published
BUCKLE UP It's all on the (on)line.

This neat Windows registry trick boosts NVMe SSD performance up to 80% but it's only officially available for enterprise users
By Jacob Ridley published
News Random IOPS could increase by up to 80% for servers, says Microsoft.

Dishonored co-creator says it was 'a shock' when Microsoft closed Arkane Austin after Redfall's release: 'We were working on something really cool'
By Rick Lane published
News "It was not a decision I agreed with."

This Microsoft Excel Easter egg led to a wild conspiracy theory that Bill Gates was the Antichrist
By Rick Lane published
Hell in a cell Revisiting the Hall of Tortured Souls.

Stalker 2 gets a new zoning permit in its 'Stories Untold' update, adding 8 missions and 7 locations as you explore what's giving Stalkers 'headaches, nosebleeds, and even hallucinations'
By Rick Lane published
News The patch also stops 'massive mutant hordes' spawning at the Plant location in the Garbage.

Microsoft celebrates 10 years of DirectX 12: A decade of updates to the low-level graphics API but it's still not the master of all things rendering
By Nick Evanson published
News DirectX 11 hasn't gone anywhere, and don't expect to see DirectX 13 any time soon, either. Or ever, perhaps.
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