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iPad Pro (2021) review: dream screen

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. How much do you care about having a great screen? That, really, is the only question that matters with the new 12.9-inch iPad Pro. It has a new kind of display so good I think it is… Read more

Alienware m15 Ryzen Edition R5 Review: Team Red’s Blasting Off Again

Our Verdict The Alienware m15 Ryzen Edition R5 is so good that it makes us wonder why Dell didn’t team up with AMD on a laptop sooner. For + Strong gaming performance + Excellent productivity performance + Unique chassis + Not too costly for it power Against – Internals run hot – Middling audio –… Read more

The original Xbox background is here to haunt the Xbox Series X / S

The Xbox has gone through several visual periods during its life span, from an edgy and yet somehow dorky green alien thing, to a modern look that could be described as “I know how to use Excel but I can still have fun.” But like stumbling on a Facebook album from high school, you can… Read more

Intel Launches Eight Core Tiger Lake-H Processors: More Power, Lower Clocks

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel introduced its long-awaited eight-core Tiger Lake-H H35 chips for laptops today, vying for a spot on our best gaming laptop list and marking Intel’s first shipping eight-core 10nm chips for the consumer market. These new 11th-generation chips, which Intel touts as the ‘World’s best gaming laptop processors,’ come as… Read more

2021’s video game hall of fame inductees announced

Mustafa Mahmoud 3 days ago Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming As the video game industry matures, it is only fair that a record of some of history’s most important titles is kept for the sake of posterity. As can be observed in other media industries, the world video game hall of fame inductees for… Read more

Starfield reportedly targeting 2021 release; will be Xbox exclusive

Mustafa Mahmoud 13 hours ago Console, Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming Starfield is the next big game from Bethesda Game Studios. Teased all the way back in 2018, nothing else has been shown from the game, leading many fans to assume it to be a long ways away. According to one leaker however, Microsoft… Read more

Xbox revenues rose to $15 billion over past 12 months

Matthew Wilson 2 days ago Console, Featured Tech News Microsoft revealed its quarterly earnings results last night, giving us a good idea as to how well Xbox is doing right now to start off the new console generation. Microsoft unfortunately doesn’t reveal specific sales numbers, but everything appears to be on the up, with the… Read more

Microsoft reveals how Halo Infinite will look on 32:9 super ultrawide monitors and other PC perks

I wish I’d had this to test with Samsung’s Odyssey G9 Microsoft has something of a history of neglecting PC gaming, but it’s trying to change that in a big way — by promising its flagship Halo Infinite will feel like a native PC game when it arrives later this year. We’ve known for many… Read more

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart looks incredible in 16 minutes of new gameplay footage

Sony and Insomniac Games debuted 16 minutes of stunning new Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart gameplay footage in a new State of Play presentation on Thursday. For part of the video, protagonist Ratchet traversed through a new town called Nefarious City that was packed with detail — it reminded me of a Ratchet & Clank… Read more

Microsoft to Focus on Bringing More Gaming Features to PC

Home News (Image credit: Microsoft) Earlier today, Microsoft released a blog post sharing the company’s thoughts on the gaming industry and its focus for gaming in 2021 and beyond. Microsoft’s goal has changed for the Xbox team and its gaming initiatives from focusing more on a specific platform (i.e the Xbox consoles) to being focused… Read more

Halo Infinite will support crossplay and cross-progression on Xbox and PC

Microsoft is announcing today that Halo Infinite will support crossplay and cross-progression when it launches later this year. This will allow PC and Xbox players to match together and play the Halo Infinite campaign, and the support also extends to multiplayer. Any multiplayer customization and progress will sync across both PC and Xbox. Halo Infinite’s… Read more

The Competitor

How Nick ‘Nickmercs’ Kolcheff battled his way to the top of Twitch The first thing you see is his forehead, because Nick “Nickmercs” Kolcheff is hunched forward and focused on his on-screen opponents. (Gamer stance, for the initiated.) The second thing you see is his crosshair begin to make its way, unerringly, to an opponent’s… Read more

The Hongqi S9 is the start of a new chapter in China’s automotive story

China’s original state-owned automaker, First Automobile Works (FAW), has revealed the first electric vehicle that’s part of the government’s massive Belt and Road project. The Hongqi S9 is a 1,400-horsepower hybrid hypercar created in partnership with Italian engineering and design startup Silk EV. The car was first teased in February, but the two companies gave… Read more

Bungie working on PvP-focused project for “a new franchise”

Home / Software & Gaming / Bungie working on PvP-focused project for “a new franchise” Matthew Wilson 1 day ago Software & Gaming We’ve known for a while now that Bungie is preparing a new IP, which is due to launch sometime in the next four years. Now, Bungie has revealed a bit more about… Read more

You can now play every classic Halo on Xbox with a mouse and keyboard

Today, you can fire up an Xbox game console and play Halo with a mouse and keyboard. It’s hard to believe I’m writing those words. Five years ago, I asked a small room of first-party Xbox devs how they felt about supporting mouse and keyboard (now that their boss Phil Spencer had confirmed they were… Read more