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Microsoft’s bid to acquire Activision Blizzard is on thin ice. Antitrust regulators from several regions have been reviewing the deal all year, and several have recently expressed concern that the acquisition could drastically reduce competition within the video game industry. With European Union watchdogs especially wary, Microsoft appears prepared to do whatever it takes to push ...

The RTX 4080 has finally arrived and as expected, it’s a seriously potent GPU. It’s officially the second most powerful GPU money can buy. That would normally be good news for gamers, but its $1,199 price puts it in an odd space within the market. The RTX 4090 offers a lot more performance, and you’re already in the ballpark as far as pricing goes with the ...

Back in September, Microsoft began to send the first big Windows 11 update of the year to users via a slow rollout. Dubbed 22H2, it is sort of like the Service Packs of yore, offering a ton of patches and new features. But despite its promise, it’s been a rocky launch as users began to report BSODs and issues with Nvidia GPUs. Now Microsoft is ...

With the pandemic winding down and crypto mining all but dead, gamers thought it might once again be easy to buy a high-end GPU. And, maybe prices would be reasonable, too. As it turns out, we were wrong about both of those situations.

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Xbox and PC gamers might soon have the option to reduce their machines’ energy consumption—if they can handle the trade-off, that is. Based on a new Xbox Insider Program survey, Microsoft is eyeballing energy-saving game modes that would bump down the frame rate and resolution in exchange for a lighter electricity bill.The survey, first spotted by Windows Central this week, ...