
The second weekend of the Battlefield 6 Open Beta is imminent, and on top of everything from the first playtest, it's also including some new content and features.

Several recent stories about data loss and suspension in the cloud should serve as a reminder to us all that cloud storage isn't without risks. Here's what you can do be ensure your data doesn't get nuked if your cloud provider decides you're no longer a customer.
https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/storage/cloud-storage-risks-how-to-mitigate

GSC Game World shared a roadmap for what players will see added to STALKER 2 through the rest of 2025, including better performance, new missions, and more.
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/stalker-2-remainder-2025-roadmap

Perplexity made a $34.5 billion offer for Chrome, far above its own value, but Google has no plans to sell the world’s most-used browser.

Microsoft looks to be working on a new UI for its Edge web browser codenamed Olympia that appears to be built around Copilot. Here's a first look at an early iteration of it.

Amazon US have listed the base-model Xbox Ally ahead of Gamescom 2025, hinting at more details to come soon

inZOI, a life sim game has been announced for PS5 with an Xbox version "under consideration"

Dozens of games have come to Xbox Game Pass this year, but these are the top seven you really don't want to miss out on.
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-game-pass-games-you-need-to-play

Some games have such powerful openings that they suck you in right away. Here are the seven best PC games with the most compelling intros.
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/pc-gaming/video-games-best-intros

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently revealed that GPT-5 didn't meet the coveted AGI threshold because of its inability to continuously learn "as it's deployed from the new things it finds."