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For many of us, World of Warcraft (WoW) was the first MMO that appealed to us. As the MMO aged, the classic content was ignored or altered to make it easier to attract new players to the game. After years of complaints, Blizzard Entertainment is bringing back Classic World of Warcraft and...

Microsoft has released an emergency security update to patch an actively exploited vulnerability in Internet Explorer. CVE-2018-8653 addresses a remote code execution vulnerability caused by the way the scripting engine handles objects in Internet Explorer. The exploit corrupts memory in such as...

On December 4, 2018 DICE is taking down the Battlefield V servers for maintenance to roll out the new Battlefield V Tides of War Chapter 1: Overture Update for all platforms. This update will include a new map, a fresh untold War Story, and new rewards for completing challenges. The update is...

DSO Gaming is reporting that Fallout 76 no longer has its frame rate tied to the physics engine after the latest patch. Now PC gamers can run the game at whatever frame rate that their systems are capable of. Bethesda has also promised to add support for ultra-wide monitors via a future patch...

Assetto Corsa Competizione has added virtual reality (VR) support in the Early Access Release 2 patch for the game. In this Steam discussions thread, owners of the game say that the VR is very rudimentary as it is a proof-of-concept addition to the game's alpha testing phase. The first-gen...

Monster: Hunter World has added standard PC mouse control options for the in-game camera. Initially the only camera control option was to emulate a game controller which made it slow and clunky. Now the game feels much more like a standard PC game as everything is much more crisp and familiar...

A couple of weeks back we reported about a problem with the latest version of Windows 10 and Intel SSDs. A nasty bug in the new OS could bork installs on machines with some Intel SSDs. That's the bad news and now we have the good news that Microsoft has patched this flaw and a manual update will...

DSOGaming is reporting that patch 1.4.3 has come out today for Kingdom Come: Deliverance, and it is weighing in at 4.5GB. Shockingly, the massive patch is mainly for stability. fixing a number of crashes. The patch notes are below so you can see if this looks like a 4.5GB patch. Kingdom Come...

It's not secret that HardOCP loves Hunt: Showdown and we wrote on March 29th how it was getting a performance patch, and today is the day that it is available. The new patch comes in at only 164 MB, but packs a lot of optimization, including lowering the memory footprint, a number of CPU...

I know a lot of you have been following the progress of Hunt Showdown since Kyle started talking about it and posting some gameplay streams. While the game looks pretty fun lots of people playing the game have complained about poor performance with stalls and stutters. The developers have been...

According to Intel's Microcode Revision Guidance paper, they have released new microcode updates for Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge to deal with the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. Next up are Westmere Xeons, Nehalem Xeons, as well as some Arrandale and Clarkdale CPUs, with Arrandale...

Over at answers.microsoft.com there's a long thread where Athlon CPU users are experiencing issues with the Meltdown/Spectre patch. KB4056892 appears to prevent a boot of the system after the patch is installed. In some instances a complete reinstall fixes the issue, but the update will once...

Patch Tuesday problems roll out, with a new acknowledgment from Microsoft about a dot matrix printer bug, continued reports of Win10 1703-to-1709 upgrades, one unconfirmed report of a forced 1607-to-1709 upgrade, and a memory violation error with CDPUserSvc. I posted an article on Friday that...

As chaos gripped the hallowed halls of various Security Operations Centers around the world, Microsoft stood like a defiant digital Gandalf. "You shall not pass!" they declared as they smashed the ground with the Staff of Patching, releasing a golden ring of light and sending their adversaries...

Well, not so fast. Guru3D has a story to this effect running today, and while it does look like Microsoft's statements suggest that they are looking to patch things for Ryzen, I have never seen anyone put so many weasel words into a single tweet before. That's impressive considering the 140...