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Rejoice, for Microsoft has upgraded its Copilot Vision AI assistant with access to your entire desktop in Windows 11. Mercifully, this is an opt-in feature limited to preview builds of Windows 11, not something being rolled out compulsorily via Windows Update, for now. So our AI bot overlords haven't quite taken over the PC.Microsoft announced the move on the official Windows blog. "Now you can choose to share your whole...
Oops, looks like Reddit just went down. Or at least sorta down. A strange tech issue hit the site, which means it could no longer display any content. Not a single thread.The issue appears to affect most regions, as we've experienced it across the UK and US here at PC Gamer. Head to Reddit and you were shown the homepage and your subreddits in a list, but click on anything...
A review of Smurfs, aka ‘Randomized Free-Association of Stuff That Happens in Kids’ Animated Movies’
Here are some things that happen in Smurfs, the 2025 animated movie about those little blue guys called Smurfs. A long montage of character introductions, with the names of each character splashed on the screen: Papa Smurf, Smurfette, Brainy Smurf, Hefty Smurf, Sound Effects Smurf, Baker Smurf, and so on. Some of these characters barely appear again in the movie; many are visually indistinguishable Multiple musical numbers, with the Smurfs...
Netflix teased a very action-heavy final season of Stranger Things with its first teaser trailer. Set in the fall of 1987, more than a year after the events of season 4, the trailer reveals how Hawkins has been transformed by the rifts Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) opened. The town is under military quarantine, with soldiers using controlled burns to try to contain the influence of the Upside Down. That doesn’t...
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Over the past decade, Dungeons & Dragons has gone from a nerdy niche tangled up with a satanic panic to a mainstream IP where a bunch of nerds can sell out Madison Square Garden playing it. Stranger Things’ kids on bikes helped shed a positive, post-satanic-panic light on the game, and its popularity has only grown since. Plenty of folks, myself included, played it for the first time over Roll20,...
Donkey Kong Bananza, Nintendo’s Switch 2-exclusive platform game, has received glowing reviews that catapult it to the front of the race for Game of the Year. At the time of writing, shortly after the review embargo lifted, Bananza has a rating of 91 on review aggregation site OpenCritic and 90 on Metacritic. (Sadly, you’ll have to wait a while for Polygon’s own review, as Nintendo did not provide us with...
In an extremely contentious interview with her boyfriend/coworker Superman/Clark Kent (David Corenswet) in James Gunn’s 2025 reboot movie Superman, Lois Lane presses him about the fallout of his intervention in an overseas war between the aggressive country of Boravia and its weaker neighbor, Jarhanpur. “You seemingly acting as a representative of the United States will cause more problems around the world,” she notes. He testily counters, “I wasn’t representing anybody...
The roles of Link and Zelda in the forthcoming Legend of Zelda live-action movie have been filled with two young British actors. Bo Bragason will play Zelda, and Benjamin Evan Ainsworth will play Link. Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto made the announcement Wednesday via Nintendo’s X account. “I am very much looking forward to seeing both of them on the big screen,” the great man said. This is Miyamoto. I am...
Don’t call it a comeback. While Nintendo has kept DK’s barrel in the air since his debut in 1981 — reissuing his modern classics, making him playable in multiplayer games, throwing him a supporting role in the Mario movie — his 2025 is more of a Kongaissance ripped from the Matthew McConaughey playbook. Donkey Kong got the final major release of the Switch era. He’s poised to land his own...
When testing MSI's QD-OLED monitors, such as the new MSI MPG 322URX, we've generally come away impressed, especially by the HDR performance. One catch has been that the two HDR modes those displays offer both come with clear compromises. But perhaps no longer, thanks to a new HDR mode MSI is releasing as an update.Until now, MSI (and other OLED monitor makers, for that matter) have included two optional HDR...