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Not to be outdone by ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot humiliates itself in Atari 2600 chess showdown — another AI humbled by 1970s tech despite trash talk

2025年7月2日 21:05

Microsoft Copilot is the latest AI to have been trounced in Atari Chess, despite its pre-game confidence in a victory.

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Nintendo Switch 2 units allegedly overheating — users report freezing and crashes while playing Cyberpunk 2077 and less power-hungry games

作者 stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick)

2025年7月2日 17:52

Nintendo Switch 2 users are reporting overheating, leading to freezes and crashes while gaming.

A thermal camera view of the Nintendo Switch 2 in docked mode with a hotspot temperature of 116 °F

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Nintendo to revise hardware, game, and membership pricing in Canada amid changing market conditions — Switch 2 remains unaffected, change slated for August 1

作者 editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar)

2025年7月1日 22:31

Original Switch consoles, games, and membership prices are changing in Canada, but the company hasn't said whether they're going up or down.

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OneXSugar gets demoed live — watch the dual-screen Android handheld transform into a Switch and a 3DS

作者 editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir)

2025年7月1日 18:15

OneXSugar is a crazy Android handheld that's somehow also a Nintendo Switch and a Nintendo 3DS at the same time.

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Nintendo president apologizes for Switch 2 shortage — says demand greatly exceeded expectations

作者 editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales)

2025年7月1日 17:46

A shareholder asked Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa why there weren't enough Switch 2 consoles to go around.

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Steam just got a new performance overlay — you can now view real FPS alongside DLSS/FRS-generated frames

作者 editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir)

2025年7月1日 17:29

Now out of beta, Steam's new performance monitor highlights a much-needed divide between what your GPU is actually capable of versus what it can do with a bit of help.

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Windows 95 on a PlayStation 2 kind of works — but this modded PS2 couldn’t play Doom

2025年6月30日 23:48

'Silly tech' channel MetraByte has shared a video of their attempts to get Windows 95 and Doom95 up and running on the PlayStation 2.

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Nintendo reportedly pulled products, including Switch 2, from Amazon U.S. because of alleged sales dispute — both companies deny claims

作者 stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick)

2025年6月30日 20:23

A new report claims Nintendo began pulling its products from Amazon last year because of a disagreement over unauthorized sales.

A Nintendo Switch 2 console next to its box

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Commodore acquired for a ‘low seven figure’ price — new (acting) CEO comes from the retro community

2025年6月29日 20:23

YouTube’s Christian ‘Peri Fractic’ Simpson claims to be 'the acting CEO of Commodore Corporation.' But there's still a financial hurdle to cross for a successful acquisition.

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Switch 2 has a 120 Hz screen with response times that are too slow for 60 Hz gaming, tester claims

作者 editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz)

2025年6月26日 01:04

Nintendo's latest Switch 2 console allegedly has a response time that is inadequate even for 60 FPS gaming.

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How to add non-Steam games to your Steam Deck with Heroic Games Launcher

2025年6月25日 18:53

Valve’s Steam Deck typically stores my neglected Steam games library, but with Heroic Games Launcher, I can now keep my Amazon, GoG, and Epic games close at hand and ready to play.

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Sony faces class action over expensive digital game and DLC prices — ‘Sony tax’ means digital games cost ‘an average of 47% more’ than those on disc, group alleges

2025年6月24日 20:31

Dutch PlayStation gamers are up in arms about what they call the unfair 'Sony tax,' and have decided to take the corporation to court.

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Microsoft tests Xbox app with Battle.net integration — updated app brings third-party game library aggregation

作者 editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz)

2025年6月24日 03:01

Microsoft has announced a new aggregated gaming library for Xbox app on PC that will see installed games from third party storefronts show up in the Xbox app.

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PC gaming figures fall again in Germany, down to just 13.1 million — marking a 20% decline since 2019

2025年6月23日 22:33

The latest figures out of Germany suggest that the popularity of PC gaming has declined by a fifth since 2019.

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Rumor: Apple not building its own motion controller or in-air stylus for Vision Pro

作者 Christian Zibreg

2025年6月23日 21:13

Various boxes highlighting the key new features of Apple's visionOS 26 operating system.

Apple will reportedly first gauge demand for third-party controllers with the upcoming visionOS 26 software before deciding to build is own Vision Pro hand controller or stylus.

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Unreal Engine 5.6 up to 30% faster than the infamously bad version it succeeds -- better graphics fidelity promised, too

作者 editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz)

2025年6月22日 20:15

Unreal Engine 5.6 has been benchmarked, revealing up to a 30% performance improvement over version 5.4 of the same engine while boasting improved visual fidelity.

MxBenchmarkPC's - Unreal Engine 5.6 vs 5.4 Comparison

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Nintendo Switch 2 motherboards with chips are already available for $124 in China — PCBs sourced directly from the production line

作者 editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir)

2025年6月21日 22:27

A user on the Chinese online marketplace Goofish is offering what appears to be the Nintendo Switch 2's motherboard for just $124.

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How AMD’s partnership with Microsoft could help Team Red stay competitive against Nvidia

2025年6月20日 20:00

AMD gets gaming deal boon after gaming revenues fall

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Somebody turned a Nintendo Switch into the world's slowest iPhone, and the results were a disaster — boasts 20-minute boot times, kernel panics, and no working apps

2025年6月19日 20:45

A tinkerer managed to boot Apple iOS on the Nintendo Switch

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Measuring 'fake' frames — Steam beta in-game overlay now detects DLSS/FSR frame generation and reports both framegen and native frame rates

作者 editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz)

2025年6月19日 18:00

Valve is making Steam's overlay more functional: the Steam Client Beta includes the ability to monitor AI-generated and native frame rates simultaneously in games where DLSS/FSR frame generation might be used.

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Steam OS as a desktop? I used the Legion Go S as my work PC

作者 brandon.hill@futurenet.com (Brandon Hill)

2025年6月19日 18:00

I attempted to experience Linux firsthand in the most awkward way possible – using a handheld gaming PC.

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Expert asserts Mario Kart World is a 'fake HDR' Nintendo Switch 2 title — ‘Mario Kart World reveals that even the highest caliber of developers aren’t taking HDR seriously’

2025年6月18日 21:03

Mario Kart World appears to have been developed using 'an SDR-first content pipeline with a last-minute HDR tonemap.'

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$1.4 million worth of Switch 2 consoles stolen from semi-truck — 2,800 consoles were en route from Nintendo of America HQ to a GameStop store in Texas

作者 editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales)

2025年6月18日 20:35

A $1.4-million Nintendo Switch 2 shipment has been stolen off the back of a semi-truck.

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AMD to design processor for Xbox Next: Team Red extends long-standing Microsoft partnership

作者 ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov)

2025年6月18日 02:01

Microsoft has officially confirmed a multi-year partnership with AMD to co-develop high-performance custom processors for both next-generation Xbox home consoles and new Xbox-branded portable gaming devices.

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'There's nothing I can do. I don't even know if I wanna play anymore' — Pokémon fan left devastated after '20 years worth of data' lost in Switch to Switch 2 transfer

2025年6月17日 23:29

A passionate Pokemon fan has lost '20 years worth of data' due to a botched transfer between the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2

A Nintendo Switch 2 and a Nintendo Switch next to one another

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After just 12 days, Nintendo is already nuking Switch 2 console accounts for players caught using Mig Flash — popular cartridge allows Switch 1 games on the new console, but users say they're only using their own ROMs

作者 editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir)

2025年6月17日 22:36

Be wary if you're planning to use the MIG-Switch with your Nintendo Switch 2, with user reports indicating a widespread ban on consoles that have been used with the flash cart.

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'There is no way a Borderlands game is that demanding' — Borderlands 4 users furious as PC requirements reveal RTX 3070 minimum GPU, 3080 recommended

2025年6月17日 19:22

Borderlands fans are up in arms over the game's recently revealed recommended PC specs and tier pricing strategy.

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I've been gaming on Windows for over 30 years, but now I'm giving Linux a shot

2025年6月16日 23:33

Hopefully I can play more than Super Tux Kart

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Nintendo Switch 2 gets a CT scan that shows off internals layer-by-layer, including a scan of the Nvidia Tegra SoC

2025年6月16日 18:00

Scan-of-the-month over at Reddit shows off what the Nintendo Switch 2 looks like under a CT scan and confirms the hardware inside.

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$3,000 Steam Deck prototype disassembled — concept units had discrete GPU support, smaller joysticks, circular touchpads

作者 editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales)

2025年6月15日 23:00

Jon Bringus of Bringus Studios explored one of the first iterations of the Steam Deck gaming console.

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First reverse engineered Sony PS1 motherboard enables fixing broken systems — bare PCBs for $40, boards with chips for $95

2025年6月15日 22:40

An electronics enthusiast has created what they say is the 'first custom PlayStation 1 motherboard created in 30 years.'

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Nintendo Switch 2 screen survives being smashed with pliers 50 times — destructive testing finds the Switch 2 to be exceptionally tough

作者 editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales)

2025年6月15日 00:49

Zack Nelson of JerryRigEverything tore apart the Nintendo Switch 2 to show us its internals and then stress-tested the screen with pliers to see how durable it is.

JerryRigEverything breaking the Nintendo Switch 2 screen with a pair of pliers

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Steam beta gets native Apple Silicon support — the only public Arm version of Steam

作者 editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales)

2025年6月13日 19:23

Another Rosetta 2 holdout gone

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Nintendo Switch 2 tested: new internals are a major power-up

2025年6月13日 02:31

The Nintendo Switch 2's powerful internals deliver a major upgrade to the Switch formula, but there's still some room for improvement.

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Mig Flash V2 shown working on Nintendo Switch 2 — could pave the way for Switch 1 games on latest console

作者 editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir)

2025年6月12日 21:40

In a recent showcase, the team behind the MIG-Switch (now MIG Flash) successfully booted up The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom directly from the flash cart.