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Meta's new VR Glasses weigh around 100 grams and use passthrough vision instead of transparent lenses, offering a middle ground between traditional VR headsets and AR glasses. The design prioritizes accessibility over full immersion, potentially opening
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The World of Red Bull: Big Wave Surfing brings viewers to Teahupo'o, Tahiti to experience extreme surfing from multiple perspectives through Apple's spatial video format.
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AOC enters the ultra-high refresh monitor market with a new 25-inch 1,000 Hz IPS display featuring a 0.3 ms grey-to-grey response time, developed in collaboration with display specialist BOE.
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Activision and Beenox have shared the official PC system requirements for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, launching October 23. The game offers extensive customization with over 800 settings, ray tracing in all modes, and support for NVIDIA DLSS 4.5
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A developer has built a browser-based version of the original Halo: Combat Evolved that supports full multiplayer gameplay and works across Windows, Linux, and Android. The project went live recently and drew nearly 20,000 games within five hours.
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Google Japan has unveiled a tongue-in-cheek keyboard concept where keys rotate on a belt to your fingertips instead of you reaching for them. The novelty device showcases the kind of creative absurdism that defined Google before it became a corporate
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A PC Gamer hardware writer reflects on 2026's inflated component costs, explaining why a $20-25 seat cushion became their biggest setup upgrade this year. DDR5 memory, SSDs, and graphics cards have seen dramatic price increases, pushing many players to
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Asus has released BIOS updates addressing a local access vulnerability affecting older Intel motherboards, including ROG Strix and ROG Maximus models. The issue requires physical proximity to exploit but carries a high severity rating.
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Xbox Game Pass subscribers will face new monthly caps on cloud gaming starting in November. Essential tier gets 5 hours, Premium gets 10, and Ultimate gets 15. Xbox plans to sell additional hours but hasn't announced pricing yet.
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Sony has revealed QSSR (Quick Spectral Super Resolution), bringing machine learning-based upscaling to the base PlayStation 5. The technology, a refined version of PS5 Pro's PSSR, is now available in Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei, potentially
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The Anbernic RG DS Plus brings bigger 4.3-inch displays and a $95 price tag to portable Nintendo DS emulation, though it trades some features from its predecessor for improved comfort and a capacitive stylus.
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Isekibori, an unusual excavation simulator developed by Takahiro Miyazawa, has launched on Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 in Japan. The game repurposes the HORI Guitar Life controller as a makeshift shovel, using motion tracking to let players dig up buried
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