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After buying up between $1m and $5m in Dell stock this year, Trump tells everyone to 'go out and buy a Dell computer'. Again.

At the start of May, president Donald Trump thanked Michael and Susan Dell (yes, those Dells) for donating over $6 billion to 'Trump Accounts,' reportedly going toward at least 25 million children in America. In that thank-you speech, he urged listeners to "go out and buy a Dell." That was after Trump filed that he pur...

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Zenimax "reaffirms commitment" to ESO, as Xbox layoffs cut deep

The Elder Scrolls Online's Community Manager, Jessica Folsom, has laid out the Zenimax Online Studios team's "immediate focus" of Season One following the news about an estimated 1,600 layoffs at Xbox on July 6, 2026. Ex-staffers have started sharing news of their redundancies from the MMO studio on sites like LinkedIn...

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Obsidian Entertainment Has Lost 60-70 Developers In Latest Layoff

Xbox's "reset" arrived yesterday to the tune of 3,200 layoffs and the divestiture of Double Fine, Compulsion Games, Undead Labs, Ninja Theory and, potentially, Arkane.

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Pokemon Go Could Finally Be Getting Arceus

The list of Pokemon still missing from Pokemon Go grows smaller by the month. With the recent additions of both Mimikyu and Zeraora, there are few that have yet to debut in the 2016 smash hit.

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance star says it didn't lead to work in other games: 'The industry at large has never really given a f***'

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is a game of many excellent parts, and some of its most excellent are lead characters Henry of Skalitz and Lord Hans Capon. That's in no small part down to the fact that both of them have great voice actors: Tom McKay for Henry and Luke Dale for Capon, who both turn in fantastic and memorabl...

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It looks like Blizzard's escaped Xbox's grim reset scythe for now, though there's still time to be caught in the second 1600-strong layoff wave coming 2027

The Xbox reset is afoot, and while there aren't strictly speaking any studio closures yet, with multiple developers in the process of moving elsewhere, the shockwaves from its impact are still being felt across Xbox's continually-shrinking staff. All in the service of a mathematically improbable 1 billion daily player...

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Asus ROG Strix XG129C review

You can't have too many screens. That's pretty much been the guiding moral in my life. Enter the new Asus ROG Strix XG129C and a minor existential crisis. This is a screen, but I have to askβ€”I can't believe I'm saying thisβ€”is there any real point to it?For starters, this "gaming monitor" (Asus' words, not mine) measure...

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Steam's New Kingdom Hearts Meets Jak and Daxter Game Charmed Me in Five Minutes

During my ongoing search to find yet another Steam game to add to my backlog, I have just stumbled upon what I can only describe as an instantly charming modernization of a distinct childhood memoryβ€”a game that takes me back to the golden era of 3D platformers while managing to feel like an experience I would and argua...

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A nasty Windows 11 bug is taking upwards of 500 GB worth of storage, and is surprisingly difficult to spot, but there's a fix

If you've found yourself with much less storage than you otherwise anticipated, to the tune of hundreds of missing gigabytes, there's a chance you've fallen victim to a new Windows 11 bug. That, or you're not very good at managing your storage (same).As spotted by Windows Latest, this new bug involves the CapabilityAcc...

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Xbox Game Pass Was Supposed To Have 77 Million Subscribers By Now

It's impossible to pinpoint just one thing that has led Xbox to be in the state it's currently in. However, if there's something that's going to shoulder a significant chunk of the blame moving forward, it's Game Pass. More specifically, Xbox's unrealistic expectations of what Game Pass was going to become.

1 month ago πŸ‘ 11
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Here Are The 10 Most Valuable Chaos Origins Cards From Yu-Gi-Oh

Following the blockbuster release of Yu-Gi-Oh Battles of Legend: Glorious Gallery, which saw a card launch with a market value of over $1,000, there were high expectations for the Chaos Origins set.

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How to Grow Kelpsy Berries in Cobblemon Minecraft

There are a few tricks for making a Pokemon exactly how you want it to be in Cobblemon. If you're looking to improve a Pokemon's friendship levels or reduce their Attack Effort Values (EVs), then you need a Kelpsy Berry. However, the Kelpsy Berry isn't a naturally occurring berry. Here's what you can do to spawn them,...

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