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    Ayaneo Updates AM01S Retro Mini PC With Built-In Touchscreen Gets Ryzen AI Spec Bump, Display Fix

    You're totally right and I'm an idiot for confusing the Deck/Legion Go and the Ally. Correcting the post now. Sorry about that and thanks for pointing that out.
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    Ayaneo Updates AM01S Retro Mini PC With Built-In Touchscreen Gets Ryzen AI Spec Bump, Display Fix

    Ayaneo's AM01S is a mini PC with a built-in articulating touch-screen and a design inspired by '80s and '90s retro computing. For 2025, the AM01S has received a number of choice upgrades that make it both more powerful and more compatible. The headline feature updates for the AM01S are the new...
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    Recent Spate of Video Games Set in Japan Cause Concern For Cultural Sites

    With games like Ghost of Tsushima, and Assassin's Creed Shadows more recently, being set in various periods across historical Japan, the developers of the games upped the realism by including real-world locations in each of the games. While this has the added benefit of grounding the game and...
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    United Videogame Workers Union Launches Amid Industry-wide Layoffs and AI Threat

    The United Videogame Workers Union (UVW) has officially been announced, operating in collaboration with the Communications Workers of America union to bring about change in the game development industry in the US and Canada. UVW union says it exists to protect workers against the recent wave of...
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    PowerColor Red Devil AMD RX 9070 To Get Fresh Coat of Paint with Leaked Spectral White Edition

    The ominously named PowerColor Red Devil AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT looks to be getting the same treatment as the Hellhound Spectral White edition with an all-white Spectral Edition refresh. While the design has yet to be confirmed by PowerColor, it has seemingly leaked on Amazon ahead of the...
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    Monster Hunter Wilds Tops February and 2025-to-Date Sales Charts Simultaneously

    Despite some minor complaints about in-game performance and optimization, it's plain to see that Monster Hunter Wilds has been a successful launch for Capcom, but it has now been confirmed that Monster Hunter Wilds is topping both sales charts for February and 2025 so far. This is according to a...
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    Split Fiction Proves Massively Popular During Launch Week, Sells Over 2 Million Copies On Steam

    EA's latest RPG, Split Fiction, launched to much fanfare from critics and gamers alike, with its unorthodox gameplay style and a focus on co-op setting it apart from other recent game releases. It seems as though this early launch success has carried over to financial success for EA and the...
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    Assassin's Creed Shadows Gets Steam Deck Verified Rating Ahead of Launch, Graphics Settings Locked Until Later Update

    On more than one occasion, Assassin's Creed Shadows developer, Ubisoft, has assured gamers that the upcoming Assassin's Creed title set in feudal Japan would be playable on the Steam Deck and, by extension, desktop Linux, via Valve's Proton. Ubisoft, however, was seemingly convinced that Shadows...
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    Fortnite and Anti-Cheat To Get Windows on Arm Support Despite Abysmal Adoption Rates

    In something of a surprise, Epic Games today announced that it is working with Qualcomm to integrate support for the Qualcomm Snapdragon X CPUs into Easy Anti-Cheat, officially adding Fortnite to the list of games that are available for Windows on Arm. According to the post announcing the...
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    Borderlands 4 Gets Official Release Date as New Trailer Debuts Double Jump and Action Skills Galore

    The lead-up to the release of Borderlands 4 has been rife with release date speculation, feature wish lists, and no shortage of complaints about visuals and character design. Today, however, at PlayStation State of Play, Take Two released a new trailer for Borderlands 4 and finally confirmed a...
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    Hyper Light Breaker Launches To Early Access on Steam With Surprising Player Counts and Mixed Reviews

    Hyper Light Breaker, a new 3D indie platformer we reported on previously has finally launched to early access on Steam, and despite the surprising success of its predecessors, Hyper Light Drifter and Solar Ash, Hyper Light Breaker isn't looking like the break-out indie hit of the month. While...
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    GOG Amps Up Game Preservation Efforts with New EFGAMP Game Archive Project Partnership

    We recently reported on the Good Old Games's Game Preservation Program's success, with the storefront preserving two 30-year-old Warcraft games. Now, however, GOG is partnering with the European Federation of Game Archives, Museums, and Preservation Projects (EFGAMP) for future preservation...
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    Black Myth: Wukong Sweeps 2024 Steam Awards As Narrative Gaming Makes Strong Showing Overall

    Every year, Valve holds The Steam Game Awards, a community-driven initiative to recognize the best games that were launched in that year. Valve has just released the results for the 2024 Steam Game Awards, which are determined by community vote—as opposed to events like The Game Awards, which...
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    NVIDIA RTX 5000 Blackwell Memory Amounts Confirmed by Pre-Built PC Maker

    By now, it's a surprise to almost nobody that NVIDIA plans to launch its next-generation RTX 5000-series "Blackwell" gaming graphics cards at the upcoming CES 2025 event in Las Vegas in early January. Previously, leaks and rumors gave us a full run-down of expected VRAM amounts and other...
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    OneXPlayer G1 Gaming Handheld Gets Early January Launch Date

    We previously covered the announcement of the One-Netbook OneXPlayer G1, a hybrid handheld gaming laptop with a unique removable keyboard and trackpad module that hides PS Vita-like game controls, but a launch date for the Ryzen-powered Windows handheld was unknown until now. One-Netbook has now...
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