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KILLER INN Second Closed Beta Locks In October 3–13 Window, Demands 75 GB SSD and 16 GB RAM
Square Enix and TBS Games have set October 3 through October 13 as the dates for the second closed beta of KILLER INN, their 24-player multiplayer murder-mystery hybrid that blends social deduction...
Linux in 2025: Separating Fact from Fiction for Windows 10 Users Facing the October 14 Deadline
On October 14, 2025, Microsoft will pull the plug on Windows 10 security updates, leaving millions of perfectly functional PCs without official support. Unless you pay for extended security updates...
32GB RAM to Dethrone 16GB as Mainstream Gaming Standard by Year's End, Steam Survey Shows
Valve’s latest hardware snapshot has delivered an unmistakable verdict: the era of 16GB as the default gaming RAM is ending. Steam’s August 2025 survey, analyzed by multiple outlets including...
Wine 10.14 Brings vkd3d 1.17 with Shared Memory Support, Experimental Metal Backend for macOS
Wine 10.14 landed this week with a critical vkd3d upgrade that introduces HLSL shared memory support and—for the first time—an experimental Metal Shading Language backend, offering a glimpse of...
Dead by Daylight Launch Failures on Windows: The Six Community Fixes That Get You Back in the Fog
Dead by Daylight players on Windows are no strangers to the game refusing to launch, with reports of the title getting stuck on splash screens or simply vanishing back to the desktop. One player...
The Linux Mindset Revolution: 5 Signs You've Left Windows Behind and Why Open Source Might Win the Long Game
The shift from Windows habits to a Linux mindset isn’t just about installing a new operating system—it’s a fundamental rewiring of how you think about software, privacy, and control. A recent...
Windows 11 C Drive Full? Microsoft’s Multi-Step Strategy to Default to D Safely
Windows 11 does not offer a single, magical toggle that instantly shifts all future files and installs from your C: drive to a D: drive. For the millions of users staring down a red storage bar, that...
Xbox App’s ‘My Apps’ Feature Centralizes All Gaming Launchers for Windows Handhelds
Microsoft is delivering a long-overdue quality-of-life upgrade to PC gamers, especially those gaming on Windows handhelds. A new “My Apps” tab is rolling out to Xbox Insiders on Windows,...
Windows 11 Xbox App Tests One-Click Install of Battle.net and GOG in Full-Screen Mode
A subtle but pivotal change is rolling out to Xbox Insiders on Windows 11: the Xbox PC app can now surface, download, and launch rival gaming storefronts right from its own interface. The new “My...
CachyOS's Optimized Arch Builds Claim DistroWatch Crown and a Foothold in Steam's Linux Stats
CachyOS, the Arch-based Linux distribution engineered for speed, has sprinted to the top of DistroWatch's popularity chart and captured a notable slice of Steam's Linux gaming audience—two...
Microsoft's 2017 Mixed Reality Blitz: Fall Creators Update, Surface Book 2, and the $399 VR Gamble
Microsoft set out to reshape the personal computing landscape on October 17, 2017, when it launched the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update alongside a coordinated fleet of Windows Mixed Reality headsets...
Microsoft Delivers Fall Creators Update Without Timeline as Mixed Reality Headsets Face Steam Delays
When Microsoft began rolling out the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update in mid-October 2017, it delivered a suite of creative tools and mixed reality magic—but the Timeline feature that had been hyped...