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Metroid Dread had the highest launch month sales in the series last month, according to NPD sales numbers for October. In a breakdown of last month’s sales data, NPD analyst Mat Piscatella also noted the game was the number one highest-selling title on the Nintendo Switch, as well as the third-best-selling game across all platforms during October. Piscatella also compared Dread’s launch to Metroid Prime’s in terms of physical dollar sales made during each game’s first month out....

Other than Virtualization-Based Security (VBS), AMD CPUs running Windows 11 are impacted by increased latency in L3 cache and issues in UEFI CPPC2 preferential thread scheduling. As TechPowerUp notes, the first Windows 11 update released by Microsoft seems to have further degraded performance in Windows 11 PCs with Ryzen chips. However, users will likely not have to wait too long for a patch. According to TechPowerUp‘s testing on a Ryzen 7 2700X, the L3 latency that’s usually around 10 ns was giving a latency of 17 ns in Windows 11....

Ever since Microsoft announced its ChromeOS-like Windows 10X operating software for dual-screen devices back in 2019, we have seen waiting for its official launch. In fact, an almost-final build of Windows 10X leaked earlier this year, hinting at its imminent arrival. However, Microsoft has now confirmed that it has suspended work on the Windows 10X project and it won’t be released in the market. So, Windows 10X is officially dead!...

Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella has reiterated that the company is interested in investing more and more resources in gaming, as a consequence of the satisfaction for the revenues of the Xbox division. Nadella has offered this comment when talking to the investors, despite having already invested a lot in gaming with the acquisition of five studios as announced at the E3 2018 Xbox media briefing. “In gaming, we’re pursuing our expansive opportunity from the way games are created and distributed, to how they’re played and viewed, surpassing ten billion revenue this year for the first time,” Nadella told the investors....

Mojang announced that Minecraft Dungeons would start getting seasonal adventures last year. Cloudy Climb was the first adventure to arrive, and Luminous Night is up next. As the name implies, Luminous Night is changing the lighting scheme. “It’s a darker, more gloomy night setting,” art director Victor Blanked describes. “Luminous symbols have appeared on the tower [and] inside the tower.” Those symbols appear on the new season’s cosmetics too, giving character skins a runic design....

How to get rare items. Unique items are the rarest pieces of gear Minecraft Dungeons has to offer, dealing massive damage and coming equipped with devastating perks that can become the centerpieces of certain builds. These rarities are the best items in the game, and you’ll be spending a lot of your time looking for these on higher difficulty levels. This is everything you need to know about unique items in Minecraft Dungeons, including an explanation of item rarity levels and a complete list of all unique items in the game....

We have heard a lot of rumors about the upcoming release of MIUI 13. While rumors suggest Xiaomi will unveil its next-gen Android skin in August later this month, but that won’t be the case. Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun has today confirmed the launch timeline for MIUI 13, and it’s not in line with the expectations. Wait, did Xiaomi watch our YouTube video or what? In a recent video, we suggested that Xiaomi should optimize MIUI 13 to weed out bugs and inconsistencies....

As if launching on Xbox consoles for the first time wasn’t unexpected enough, MLB The Show 21 is now slated to be a part of Xbox Game Pass’s April lineup. In result, Microsoft has revealed that even some subscribers will be able to play the award-winning sports title on mobile platforms. Announced in a new Xbox Wire post, it was said that Sony San Diego’s next MLB simulator will be available for Game Pass owners on launch day, April 20....

Many players are still asking for this map from the open beta. Modern Warfare 2 launched on October 28, and since then, thousands of players have been playing what many have called the best Call of Duty title in recent years. The game featured ten maps in its launch, and season one added two more to the rotation, but Valdera Museum did not come back from the open beta, and many players are asking about it....

Our first official footage of Life is Strange 2 is here, and it comes in the form of a very short teaser trailer. While on patrol, officer K. Matthews (his name is on the dash cam footage) pulls over and requests backup for a 10-10 in progress, or a fight that he’s seen broken out. You can hear arguing offscreen about presumably a young boy who “didn’t do anything.” He sounds eerily like young Chris Eriksen from The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit....

Square Enix has given a little update as to when PC gamers should be able to play Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. The Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII Twitter page posted a little update on development for the game. It’s in Japanese, but it notes development is in its “final stages”. It goes on to say that you can expect the game to arrive in December which will be Fall/Autumn 2015....

Star Wars 1313 was the talk of E3 2012 with its flashy graphics and glimpse into what to expect from the next generation. Since then, Lucas Arts has been quiet about the next Star Wars title in the pipeline. Today however, The Official PlayStation Magazine released a new interview that sheds even more light on the game, and how Lucas Arts is looking to create a “more grounded” version of the Star Wars Universe....

Get them off your tail. Sandbox games in the style of Grand Theft Auto and the like always give the player tons of freedom to pretty much do whatever they want when it comes exploring the city. However, that is not without consequences when you do break the law in these types of games. That has always been a part of the Mafia series in particular and of course was carried over to Mafia: Definitive Edition....

Mafia Definitive Edition‘s debut gameplay has been released earlier than anticipated, and it features around 14 minutes of in-game footage. The video is accompanied by new details about gameplay provided by IGN, covering the Hangar 13 action-adventure exclusively. While the developer didn’t find “giant” plot holes, it worked, as mentioned by the president and CCO Haden Blackman, on bringing the narrative up to modern standards and making fixes every now and then, even in the way missions are designed....

Are you great at making fun, addictive TF2 maps? asks a post on the official Team Fortress 2 blog. Do you have no idea how to make a map, but you like playing on them? Are you only vaguely aware of what maps are and prefer to just walk in a single direction until you find what you’re looking for? With the dust of the paid mods controversy finally settled, Valve have turned their eyes back towards the workshop....

Square Enix’s Guardians of the Galaxy is playable now on Nintendo, Playstation, PC, and Xbox platforms. The action-adventure game lets players assume control of Star-Lord and other superheroes occasionally. Much like most games nowadays, there are plenty of Trophies/Achievements thats players can get through the course of the game. To help players, we’ve listed all the Trophies/Achievements that players can obtain. Some of these trophies will unlock by simply progressing through the story, while most need to be obtained by meeting specific requirements....

The Custom Game Browser is one of the most anticipated new features for Halo: The Master Chief Collection. When this feature drops, you can say goodbye to frustrating SWAT matches and easily play more of the silly game-modes Halo is infamous for. To quench our thirst, Wrensi from the 343 Industries Publishing Team shared some menu mockups for the feature over at the Halo Waypoint forum this week. Before looking at this, keep in mind that everything here is currently in development....

After announcing the Dimensity 8000 and 8100 5G SoCs earlier this year, MediaTek has now launched a new mobile chipset under its Dimensity 1000 series called the MediaTek Dimensity 1050. It is the company’s first mmWave 5G chipset to deliver high-speed and reliable 5G internet. The company has also introduced the Dimensity 930 and Helio G99 chipsets alongside. Check out the details below. The MediaTek Dimensity 1050 SoC is a 5G chipset based on TSMC’s 6nm architecture....

There have been rumors and rumblings about Metal Gear Solid 5 for some time. After Hideo Kojima broke his silence on the future of the franchise, numerous reports for job listings at Kojima Productions have confirmed that Metal Gear Solid 5 will arrive, the question is when. As it turns out, Metal Gear Solid 5 won’t be arriving anytime before the summer of 2013, according to Erick Bossick, an actor that is currently working on this next title....

Metal Gear Survive recently came back on the radar for an early 2018 release, and it has now been confirmed that it will have a PC version, and also require an internet connection in order to play the game across all platforms, as discovered by NeoGaf users. The disclaimer stating this is viewable on the official website, across the PS4, Xbox One and Steam versions of the game. This implies that players who play offline will have to be connected to the internet to either set-up the game, or even have a continuous connection to the internet to play the game offline....