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Unlike the budget Xbox Series S, the Xbox Series X features a 4K UHD Blu-ray optical disc drive. This is helpful for a multitude of reasons: For one, if you’re the type of person who doesn’t like the digitalization of games, it allows you to buy the disc versions of games and run them without…

If you want to experiment with LLMs, you typically have a choice of sending your requests to someone else’s computer or fielding a very large GPU and CPU setup to run models locally. However, a recent crop of projects aims to bring bigger models to much more modest hardware.

Gaming is one of the most popular enthusiast industries in the world, with gamers all over the globe spending ungodly amounts of hours playing, streaming, and engaging with games media in some capacity. However, it has also become one of the most expensive hobbies around. Consoles are more expensive than ever, games are pushing even…

Whereas PlayStation 3 and earlier were rather specialized consoles, today’s consoles like the PlayStation 5 are essentially x86-based gaming PCs in a fancy case, with custom firmware to lock it all down. Once you’re past those gates, however, you can use it to run pretty much anything. Naturally, this also means porting PlayStation 2 and…

While it got its start as a subscription that let you access a ton of games, Xbox Game Pass has continually become more involved in the Xbox ecosystem at a base level. It has its own permanent tab on the Xbox dashboard, and it’s even required for online multiplayer action on Xbox consoles today.

Earlier this year, we reported that Microsoft was testing a “disc-to-digital” feature that would let you digitize physical games. Well, wait no longer. Recently, Microsoft rolled out the “Disc to Digital Licensing” feature for the Xbox One and Xbox Series X. Now you can “convert” your physical game discs into digital licenses that let you play…

In a milestone for both emulation and jailbroken console capabilities, “ProsperoEden”, a new GitHub project by user “blackbearreloaded”, aims to bring Nintendo Switch emulation to PlayStation 5. The project is available to try for users running jailbroken versions of the console. The project is based on Eden, an open-, and Android. ProsperoEden extends that compatibility…

Military systems are becoming increasingly sophisticated, but the person operating them still needs a practical way to control what is happening. Complex interfaces can increase training requirements and cognitive workload, particularly when operators need to make decisions quickly.

Tom Cruise transforms in Alejandro Iñárritu’s heavyweight satirical comedy, while the NYC indie rockers are in the UK for an arena tour

Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden has some thoughts on where Team Xbox is at right now and where the green machine can go from here, but the console maker needs to “pick a lane” with exclusive games, either way.