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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
BUCKLE UP It's all on the (on)line.
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This neat Windows registry trick boosts NVMe SSD performance up to 80% but it's only officially available for enterprise users
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'
News "It was not a decision I agreed with."
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This Microsoft Excel Easter egg led to a wild conspiracy theory that Bill Gates was the Antichrist
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'
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
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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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
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
News The shameless plug for Copilot+ AI PCs is a turn-off, too.
