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World of Warcraft: Forever may look less welcoming to casual players because of its slower leveling, more dangerous enemies and old school structure, but that same design could make it easier to enjoy without feeling pressured to keep up every week. The key difference is how the game treats your time. Instead of surrounding you with a constantly refreshing list of seasonal activities, Forever

For a short period during the 1990s, PC gaming had something that sat between a traditional expansion and a community mod: the commercial level pack. These boxed collections were particularly common around early first person shooters such as Duke Nukem 3D and Quake. Some were created with the approval of the original developers, while others simply collected community made maps and sold them commercially.

Modern OLED gaming monitors are finally getting close to reproducing one of the biggest strengths of old CRT displays: exceptionally clear motion. The latest experiments combine very high refresh rate OLED panels with software that simulates the way a CRT's electron beam scanned across the screen. When everything works correctly, a 60 FPS game can appear dramatically clearer in motion than it normally would

iBUYPOWER is entering the mini PC market with a high end system built around AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 processor, bringing the company's prebuilt PC experience into a much smaller form factor. The new PRO AMD AI Halo Mini PC starts at $3,999 and is expected to become available during the current quarter. It is positioned as a compact workstation for professional applications,

ASUS is positioning its new ProArt GR1X mini PCs as compact systems capable of handling demanding creative, AI and gaming workloads, with the company claiming more than 100 FPS gaming performance at 1440p while keeping the RTX Spark platform within a 140W power limit. The systems use NVIDIA's RTX Spark platform, which combines a Grace 20 core CPU with a Blackwell GPU featuring 6,144

GIGABYTE has announced BIOS support for a new generation of LGA 1700 processors across its B760 and H610 motherboards, providing one of the clearest indications yet that Intel plans to revive the older desktop socket with another CPU family. The motherboard maker has not named the processors directly, but says new LGA 1700 chips are expected in early 2027 and that supported boards can

TSMC's upcoming third quarter earnings call on October 15 could provide important clues about the company's next generation A14 manufacturing process, future AI demand, advanced packaging capacity and possible chip price increases. The call could also bring additional information about TSMC's discussions with Elon Musk over his proposed Terafab semiconductor project. Musk recently confirmed that talks with TSMC had taken place, although he later

The US console market is facing one of its weakest periods in decades as higher hardware prices continue to discourage buyers, with Xbox suffering the steepest decline among the major platforms. Industry analyst Mat Piscatella says the market is in its most precarious position since the early 1980s. Through August 2026, Xbox hardware unit sales in the US were down 33 percent compared with

A new community mod called HelixSR is bringing NVIDIA's DLSS 3.7 image reconstruction technology to Steam Deck and other AMD powered handhelds, despite the hardware lacking NVIDIA GPUs. Released by developer lonewolf0622, HelixSR works as a replacement for AMD's FSR 3.1 upscaler in Direct3D 12 games. Instead of using AMD's reconstruction method, the mod runs the neural network from DLSS 3.7 Preset E through

Sony's new Quick Spectral Super Resolution technology for the base PlayStation 5 could be relatively easy to add to recent games, but older titles may face a more complicated path if QSSR requires a newer version of Sony's development kit. QSSR was recently introduced as an AI based upscaling technology designed to improve image quality on the standard PlayStation 5. It follows the same