Baldur’s Gate 3 is now out on Xbox Series X

polygon.com Baldur’s Gate 3 is now out on Xbox Series X, Larian Studios announced Thursday at The Game Awards. After taking home the top award of the night, Larian Studios…

Capcom announces its next big Monster Hunter game, coming in 2025

polygon.com A brand-new Monster Hunter game is coming. Capcom revealed Monster Hunter Wilds on Thursday at The Game Awards 2023, showing off its successor to 2018’s immensely popular…

The Finals gets surprise release during the 2023 Game Awards

polygon.com The Finals, one of the buzziest new shooters of 2023 despite only existing in beta, finally has a release date. It’s out… right now! Developer Embark Studios announced the…

How — and why

polygon.com Here’s a career progression you probably haven’t encountered before: actor to game studio founder. But that’s just the path that Abubakar Salim has taken. The 30-year-old…

Ori creators Moon Studios reveals its next big project at the Game Awards 2023

polygon.com Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps developer Moon Studios announced its next game on Thursday at The Game Awards 2023: a “visceral, precision [action…

Microsoft May Be Working On an AI Edition of Windows

decrypt.co Microsoft's bold moves in artificial intelligence—from its huge stake in OpenAI to collaborating with Meta to adding AI to its ubiquitous business tools—could take deeper…

The depths of Dredge coming to Dave the Diver in December

polygon.com Watch out, Dave! The grotesque fish of Dredge’s spooky world are invading the depths of Dave the Diver, developers MintRocket and Black Salt Games announced during The Game…

With Exodus, ex-BioWare devs aim to be ‘a titan’ in the RPG space again

polygon.com As actual play continues to mature, Larian Studios basks in the success of Baldur’s Gate 3, and Warhammer 40,000 gets its deepest video game treatment yet, it’s not a…

Dead Cells creators reveal their next game, Windblown

polygon.com The studio behind Dead Cells announced its next project on Thursday, a new 3D isometric action game named Windblown. Developer Motion Twin describes it as “a lightning-fast…

Attacks abuse Microsoft DHCP to spoof DNS records and steal secrets

theregister.com A series of attacks against Microsoft Active Directory domains could allow miscreants to spoof DNS records, compromise Active Directory and steal all the secrets it stores,…

Google releases fix for missing Drive for desktop files

theregister.com Google has released an updated version of the Google Drive app for Windows and macOS that, along with some simple manual work, should resolve missing file issues. A help…

Lego Fortnite is the biggest thing Fortnite’s done since battle royale

polygon.com When Epic Games first pitched Fortnite back in 2012, it envisioned a cooperative sandbox game of crafting, building, and survival. Players would scavenge for supplies during…

AMD Stock Spotlight: Can Advanced Micro Devices Ever Overtake Nvidia in AI?

investorplace.com The AI arms race has the potential to upset the balance of power in semiconductors Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: ) stock might not be racking up the same sort of stellar…

Microsoft's code name for 64-bit Windows was also a dig at rival Sun

theregister.com Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen has revealed that Redmond's efforts to port Windows from 32-bit to 64-bit had a code name that served a second purpose: a thinly veiled dig at…

Sources: Microsoft plans the next major Windows version for 2024, with an AI-powered Windows Shell, an “advanced Copilot”, natural language search, and more

windowscentral.com With new leadership at the helm and ex-Windows chief Panos Panay in the rearview mirror, a new Windows roadmap is beginning to take shape under Microsoft’s new Windows & Web…

AMD Extends Mobile PC Leadership with AMD Ryzen™ 8040 Series Processors and Makes Ryzen™ AI Software Widely Available, Advancing the AI PC Era

benzinga.com Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo and Razer laptops powered by AMD Ryzen™ 8040 Series mobile processors to deliver advanced computing for work, play, and AI-enabled experiences —…

Researchers unveil LogoFAIL, an attack that defeats UEFI booting protections in nearly all Windows and Linux devices and can be executed remotely in many cases

arstechnica.com Hundreds of Windows and Linux computer models from virtually all hardware makers are vulnerable to a new attack that executes malicious firmware early in the boot-up…

CISA says US government agency was hacked thanks to ‘end of life’ software

techcrunch.com CISA says US government agency was hacked thanks to ‘end of life’ software U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA has warned that unknown hackers broke into the servers of a federal…

Bitcoin Core 26.0 released

bitcoincore.org Bitcoin Core installation binaries can be downloaded from bitcoincore.org and the source-code is available from the Bitcoin Core source repository. Bitcoin Core version 26.0…

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is a gorgeous but empty call to environmental action

polygon.com When I’m finally allowed to climb the ikran rookery to bond with a mount of my own, it’s easy to see the big-picture appeal of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. Those first…

Veteran editors Notepad++ and Geany hit milestone versions

theregister.com One of the best FOSS text editors for Windows, Notepad++, is turning 20, while cross platform Geany just hit version 2.0 as it turns 18 years old. Notepad++'s version 8.6 is…

Microsoft issues two-year warning for end of Windows 10

theregister.com Microsoft on Tuesday warned that full security support for Windows 10 will end on October 14, 2025, but offered a lifeline for customers unable or unwilling to upgrade two…

Elon Musk's AI firm xAI files to raise up to $1 billion in equity offering

investing.com Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI has filed with the U.S. securities regulator to raise up to $1 billion in an equity offering, according to a filing on…

Qualcomm's X Elite Crushes Apple: Arm Holdings Stocks Surge

forbes.com Apple Inc. is an industry leader in high-end, custom microprocessors, yet the iPhone maker is being upstaged by an unlikely source. The implications for investors are huge.…

Baldur’s Gate 3 players want to smooch Shadowheart, avoid bear sex

polygon.com More than 1.3 million people have played and completed Baldur’s Gate 3, according to developer Larian Studios. The majority of those players — 1.24 million, actually — got…

Windows 10 gets three more years of security updates, if you can afford them

arstechnica.com Windows 10's end-of-support date is October 14, 2025. That's the day that most Windows 10 PCs will receive their last security update and the date when most people should…

Microsoft fixes Copilot multi-monitor woes via Win11 update

theregister.com Microsoft has released a patch to deal with Copilot's broken multi-monitor support and reminded users that if they want to keep chatting with the Gen AI preview, they'll…

Best MacBook deals in December: Pro and Air models still discounted

businessinsider.com When you buy through our links, Insider may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more Apple Some of the best MacBook deals bring modern Air and Pro models with Apple's…

Atsign Announces SSH No Ports 4.0 with Windows Support and SDK

benzinga.com SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Atsign, a provider of open-source Networking 2.0 technology, today announced the release of SSH No Ports 4.0. SSH No…

Investing in quantum computing: A guide

marketbeat.com Quantum computing is a relatively new type of computer programming that incorporates quantum mechanics into a machine's functionality. This may result in faster computer…

CISA reveals how fed agency succumbed to ColdFusion attacks

theregister.com CISA has released details about a federal agency that recently had at least two public-facing servers compromised by attackers exploiting a critical Adobe ColdFusion…

Best laptop deals in December: Save on MacBooks, Dell, and gaming models

businessinsider.com When you buy through our links, Insider may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more Alexandr Spatari / Moment via Getty Images If you're in the market for a great new…

Microsoft confirms Smart App issue renaming printers to HP

theregister.com No, it isn't your imagination. Windows really is installing the HP Smart App and renaming printers without user interaction. Microsoft has updated its Windows release health…

What the Polygon staff bought and loved in 2023

polygon.com 2023 has been particularly tough for those of us who make Best of the Year lists. From Barbie to Baldur’s Gate 3 to The Bear, there’s just been too much good stuff this…

The best video games of the year so far

polygon.com For the first year in recent memory, scale did not necessitate tradition, and scope did not preclude getting weird. In 2023, nothing was sacred in video games, and so they…

Microsoft May Check Your Mental Health Using AI

thedailyupside.com Microsoft wants to keep an eye on your burnout. The company filed a patent application for computer-based “Well being assessment and mitigation.” Basically, Microsoft’s tech…

Now is a good time to buy memory because prices rise next year, Gartner predicts

theregister.com The semiconductor market is poised to return to growth next year, driven by AI increasing the volume of orders for memory and causing a spike in prices as demand catches up…

The game studios changing the industry by unionizing

polygon.com This year appeared to be a pretty dang good one for the video game industry, if you’re only looking at profits. There’s an abundance of incredible, highly rated games to…

WhatsApp updates its iOS app to let users send photos and videos in their original quality

wabetainfo.com WhatsApp has just submitted a new stable update for iOS, available on the App Store: the build number is 23.24.73. What’s new in this update? WhatsApp is widely rolling out…

40 years of Turbo Pascal, the coding dinosaur that revolutionized IDEs

theregister.com It is 40 years since Turbo Pascal revolutionized the coding marketplace with a slick (for the time) Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and performance to spare. So why…

Do you really need shiny new tech for Christmas? The answer is ‘no’

theguardian.com This Christmas, many Apple enthusiasts will be mulling over whether to shell out almost £800 for a new iPhone 15, while some commuters will be thinking of putting the new…

Dickens’ A Christmas Carol has a Metroidvania sequel in big year for Christmas games

polygon.com Whether 2023 is one of the best years for video games is up for debate. But it is certainly one of the best years for Christmas video games, thanks to a surprising number of…

5 gift card tricks targeting you this holiday season

aol.com Gift cards are a very popular and convenient way to give a gift this holiday season to your friends or family, but they can also be a target for scammers who want to steal…

A Bull Market Is Coming: 2 "Magnificent Seven" Stocks to Buy Right Now and Hold Forever

fool.com The stock market's "Magnificent Seven" consists of Apple, Microsoft (MSFT -1.16%), Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia, Meta Platforms (META -0.71%), and Tesla. Grouped together under…

There are still plenty of leftover Black Friday gaming deals, turns out

polygon.com Black Friday and Cyber Monday may be over, but just like Thanksgiving, sometimes the leftovers are the best part. This weekend we’re looking at the deals that are still…

Phil Spencer says Microsoft has no plans to bring Game Pass to PlayStation or Nintendo, after Xbox CFO said it will come to “every screen that can play games”

windowscentral.com Microsoft Gaming CEO and Xbox lead Phil Spencer is currently at CCXP 2023 presenting alongside other major entertainment companies at one of Brazil's biggest comics, movies,…

Ghost hacking: How to protect yourself from scams from beyond the grave of those you knew

aol.com Online, the dead live on as digital ghosts. You may have encountered some of them, perhaps without even knowing it. As more and more people pass away, their online profiles…

Cinnamon and KDE sync version numbers in desktop sibling rivalry

theregister.com Two of the most popular "traditional" – read Windows-like – desktops happened to land the same version number at once. The overlap is just a coincidence, and the two…

Google pushes for antitrust action against Microsoft in UK cloud market

investing.com Google has called on Britain’s antitrust regulator to take action against Microsoft (NASDAQ: ), claiming its business practices had left rivals at a significant…

Here's What's Coming to Xbox Game Pass

decrypt.co A total of 16 new games are coming to Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass subscription service for standard and premium buyers in December 2023, while two are being added for “Core”…

The best PC controller for gaming in 2023

businessinsider.com When you buy through our links, Insider may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more The best PC controllers for gaming deliver a comfortable grip and a sleek design.…

The History of the PDF

sensible.so When was the last time you clicked a link, found you were opening a PDF, and didn’t groan in pain? The PDF is one of the most popular formats in the world – and has been for…

Windows users report appearance of unwanted HP app

theregister.com Windows users are reporting that Hewlett Packard's HP Smart application is appearing on their systems, despite them not having any of the company's hardware attached. While…

Larry Magid: Using a personal computer to read and send texts

siliconvalley.com I’ve been using a smartphone with an onscreen keyboard since June 29, 2007, the day that Apple released its first iPhone. In my initial hands-on report, published the next…

Bitmagic Launches Public Test for AI-based Game Creation Platform

benzinga.com HELSINKI, Nov. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- today announced that their generative AI -based game development platform is now available for public access via a closed alpha…

If Bill Gates Had Invented AI

mediapost.com Computers today require the user to lead the machine. That’s also true in the online advertising industry, despite the amount of automation we have seen built into platforms…

Nostalgia for XP sells out Microsoft's 2023 'Windows Ugly Sweater'

theregister.com Microsoft has once again reminded us of a time when its operating systems only drove us three-quarters around the bend, by issuing the latest Windows Ugly Sweater that…

BBC Lands Drama On Gary McKinnon, A Scottish Hacker Who Broke Into NASA & Pentagon Systems

deadline.com It was described by U.S. authorities as the “biggest military computer hack of all time,” and now the BBC is making a feature-length drama about the man behind the keyboard.…