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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.

WoW devs plan to 'whitelist' spells for use in combat mods and addons, and while it looks like Blizzard's going soft, I'm not sure that's the whole picture
By Harvey Randall published
News Pooling resources.

Microsoft's new guide to PC gaming hardware is very slightly more useful than you might expect but oddly has never heard of upscaling
By Jeremy Laird published
News The shameless plug for Copilot+ AI PCs is a turn-off, too.

Microsoft nukes popular Halo 3 mod for Counter-Strike 2 from orbit: 'It was fun while it lasted'
By Rick Lane published
News "Make sure you give your thanks to Microsoft!"

Why I love player housing in MMOs
By Harvey Randall published
SWEET HOME A little slice of ownership in a massively multiplayer world.

I'm never getting any work done ever again, thanks to this website that lets me play thousands of user-made Doom levels in my browser
By Rick Lane published
News RIP (and tear) my productivity.

Microsoft wants to make Windows 'the best place to game—no matter where you play' but Linux and Valve's SteamOS have other ideas
By Jeremy Laird published
News On the desktop, in your hands, even on an Arm chip, Windows wants to be best.

Blizzard sees players levitating their homes in WoW's player housing, 'even though there weren’t UI controls for that', decides it's now a feature, not a bug
By Harvey Randall published
News Also, the exterior decor limit will be increased.
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