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Razer Viper V3 Pro drops under $120 — The Razer V4 Pro is overkill for most gamers

Razer's Viper V3 Pro just hit $119.99. While the new V4 Pro has higher ceiling specs, the V3 Pro remains a top-tier e-sports mouse with a pro-proven 35K sensor.

Image of the Razer Viper V3 Pro wireless gaming mouse.

The Razer Viper V3 Pro was one of the best gaming mouse on the market until yesterday, but it's now a much better value.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 brings back fan-favorite multiplayer maps and modes in Season 3

Season 3 adds an array of new and returning maps and modes to Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 when it launches on April 2.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Season 3

Black Ops 7 Season 3 blends the old and new with more outrageous operator skins and nostalgic maps.

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Formula Pro simulator with ultra-realistic controls emulates F1 racing fun in your living room

In the world of Formula-1 world championships are won by the slender margin of milliseconds that turn into big margins after every passing lap. The level of engineering in the pinnacle of Motorsports is unparalleled, and the drivers competing for the top podium step do every little thing that gives them a strategic advantage over their rivals.

Personal training is a part of the drill to stay in top shape, but the real deal is to polish the skills and gain telemetry data in the racing sims that very closely mimic the nuances of each track on the season calendar. With the hybrid era, the need for simulating the real track conditions has become even more important, given the metamorphosis this sport is undergoing.  A good simulator plays a vital role in giving the F1 and F2 drivers a fair idea of areas to improve, or develop strategic maneuvers that can be finally implemented on the track.

Designer: Cool Performance

With over two decades of motorsport experience and trusted by over 250 professional racers, Cool Performance now brings its most advanced F1 sim racer for professionals and motorsports fans. Current F1 drivers who train their driving skills on the Formula Pro Simulator include Lando Norris, Carlos Sainz, Sebastian Vettel and Alex Albon. Founder Oliver Norris has designed the simulator from the ground up with tons of experience in his own Motorsports journey and his brother Lando’s last couple of successful F1 seasons.

The professional-grade simulator has a precision-designed cockpit and race seat to recreate the realism of FPV in the single-seater racer. To simulate the nuances of a Formula -1 car riding the tarmac, the simulator has a high-torque force feedback steering and a Leo Bodnar SimSteering 2 base. This lets the sim racer feel every little bump of the chicane or the minute grip changes when the car is steered off the racing line. Braking in Formula 1 is way more challenging than your average SUV. That is mimicked by the CP-S hydraulic pedals with an AP Racing master cylinder support, which can simulate 200 kgs of braking force. For that, you’ll require immense strength in your core and lower body.

Every little detail of this F1 simulator is narrowed down to the last millimeter, much like the Formula 1 cars. Right from the highly technical CP-S Formula steering wheel that has virtually everything right at arms distance for the driver, to the CP-S custom hydraulic pedals, nothing gets better than the Cool Performance’s option. Clearly, if you want to feel the realism and the tiny details of Formula 1, this is it. Each one of the Formula Pro F1 simulators is custom-manufactured and tested by Oliver and Adrian Quaife-Hobbs in Kent, United Kingdom.

Eager buyers can opt for a single curved screen setup or a multiscreen array for better realism. If you are a purist, then the UK-based manufacturer can create a bespoke version of the sim to fit your specific needs. The Formula Pro simulator price starts from $40,950 and can go higher depending on the add-ons demanded or the bespoke modifications required.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 campaign's Endgame mode is going free to play for a limited time with the April launch of Season 3 — plus new content and changes to Combat Rating are on the way

Treyarch aims to release Black Ops 7 campaign's Endgame mode for free as part of Call of Duty: Warzone with the Season 3 update on April 2. Free-to-play access to Endgame is only for a limited time.

Black Ops 7 Endgame Season 3

The Endgame mode from Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is a 4-player PvE experience blending futuristic military combat against The Guild and horrific nightmare ghouls together on the Avalon map.

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Kerbal Space Program 2 is the scam that won't die — How this game is still allowed on Steam as "Early Access" is beyond me

How this game is still allowed to be on Steam as an Early Access title is beyond me.

Kerbal Space Program 2 screenshot of a Kerbal overlooking a stone.

RIP Kerbal Space Program 2, or at least, for now.

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Explaining Halo Studios' outsourcing — a broader shift in leadership strategy and approach to game production revealed

A new report details how Halo Studios is approaching outsourcing on Halo Campaign Evolved, including Abstraction’s role and how leadership strategy is shaping development.

MAsterchief and UNSC Marines hitting the beach in The Silent Cartographer

Key art for Halo: Campaign Evolved, showing Master Chief with text of the game's name

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OpenAI shock as firm shuts down popular Sora AI video generation app in desperate bid to temper spending

Open AI has announced that it's shutting down Sora, its popular AI video generation app and model that also powers Microsoft's Bing video generation service.

A smartphone with the Open AI and Sora logos being dispalyed.

Open Sora no more.

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This popular MMO is coming soon to Xbox consoles exclusively, at least for now — it's free to play, and getting a big visual upgrade too

The popular sandbox MMO Albion Online is headed to Xbox Series X|S in April, and for the time being, it will be exclusive to Xbox in the console space.

A screenshot of Albion Online taken from one of the game's trailers.

A screenshot of a player character in Albion Online taken from one of the game's trailers.

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Razer unveils Viper V4 Pro with 50K sensor, 8,000Hz polling, and an optical scroll wheel

The Razer Viper V4 Pro features a 50K sensor, 180-hour battery life, and a more durable optical scroll wheel in a 49g symmetrical design.

Razer Viper V4 Pro

The Razer Viper V4 Pro maintains the symmetrical shape of its predecessor while upgrading the internals.

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Xbox publishing lead says devs should get ready for the next-gen Project Helix console by "developing for Xbox on PC" — and by supporting this key feature

Want your game to run natively on the next-gen Xbox console Project Helix? Microsoft says you should be developing for Xbox on PC" and Xbox Play Anywhere.

Project Helix logo and Xbox colors in a collage

Project Helix is the codename for Microsoft's next-gen Xbox console, and it's quite unique in that it will be a console-PC hybrid.

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Microsoft's new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is considering making Game Pass cheaper after last year's price hike — "lower-priced tiers" could be on the way

Xbox's new CEO Asha Sharma is reportedly exploring bringing "lower-priced tiers" to Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass service in order to attract new customers.

Xbox Game Pass neon sign

Xbox Game Pass has become a colossal part of Microsoft's gaming business, but Xbox's new CEO Asha Sharma reportedly wants to expand it further with "lower-priced tiers."

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Xbox Mode is now officially rolling out, while console players will start to see their cloud save sync status

Xbox Mode is beginning to roll out on PC, replacing the Xbox Fullscreen Experience, while console users in Alpha Skip Ahead can now view cloud save sync status in Game Cards.

Xbox Ally

The artist previously known as Xbox Full Screen Experience is now Xbox Mode.

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World of Warcraft: Midnight review — This dark middle act has immense ambition, but Blizzard is spreading itself thin at the cost of quality

The high bar Blizzard has set itself has given us more "stuff" to do in WoW than ever, but there's a variety of quality issues that are compounding into frustration.

World of Warcraft: Midnight

World of Warcraft: Midnight

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Apple fans amazed as MacBook Neo runs a 12-year-old Halo game at almost 60 FPS — Should Xbox bring its games to mobile?

Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary is now playable on the MacBook Neo using Crossover, achieving around 50 FPS with performance settings, showcasing Apple silicon’s growing capability for gaming.

Halo: Combat Evolved

Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary is playable on the MacBook Neo using Crossover.

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If Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) looks awful on your NVIDIA 50-series GPU, here's how to fix it

If you joined the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) revival, but it looks awful on your NVIDIA RTX 50-series GPU, here's how to fix it.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition (front) compared to RTX 5090 Founders Edition (rear)

All the graphics power in the world but still not enough without the right drivers.

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