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Here’s what Mac you need for Cyberpunk 2077

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Cyberpunk 2077 is launching on macOS tomorrow, and CD Projekt Red is now sharing details on exactly what Mac you’ll need to get the most out of the game. While Cyberpunk 2077 has been optimized for a variety of Macs, from early M1 models up, if you want the top “very high fidelity” config then you’ll need an M3 Ultra or M4 Max machine with 36GB of unified memory. CD Projekt Re

Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition comes to the Mac on July 17

Mac owners will soon be able to play one of the biggest games of the last five years or so. Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition will be available in the Mac App Store as well as Steam, GOG.com and the Epic Games Store on Thursday, July 17. As the name implies, it includes both the base game as well as the Phantom Liberty expansion from 2023. The port was announced last fall and was originally planned to arrive "early" this year, but it took a little longer to get everything squared away. Unsurpris

The New ‘Twisted Metal’ Trailer Is Full of Ludicrous Action and Massive Explosions

“Cowabunga, motherf*ckers.” Twisted Metal is back on July 31 and its latest trailer is everything fans want from the show and so much more. Season two picks up with the epic car vs. car tournament that made the video games so popular finally getting underway. Not only will John (Anthony Mackie) and Quiet (Stephanie Beatriz) be involved, but a whole slew of unforgettable and terrifying Twisted Metal characters too. You’ll see them roll called in the new trailer, which features ludicrous action,

Denmark's Archaeology Experiment Is Paying Off in Gold and Knowledge

Ole Ginnerup Schytz, an engineer in Denmark’s sleepy Vindelev agricultural area, had used a metal detector only a handful of times when he found a bent clump of metal in a friend’s barley field. He figured it was the lid from a container of tinned fish and tossed it in his junk bag with the other bits of farm trash that had set his metal detector beeping: rusty nails, screws, scrap iron. A few paces away he dug up another shiny circle. Someone had clearly enjoyed a lot of tinned fish here—into t

This overlooked phone accessory gave me a greater sense of security - and it's not a case

My tether tag set up on my iPhone. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET You might have heard of tether tags. These little tags offer a way to prevent phone snatching theft, a crime that's on the increase. The idea is you fit the little T-shaped plastic or fabric tag between the smartphone and the case it's in, clip a wrist lanyard to it, and bingo, no more theft. I first saw these on social media -- I remember there being quite a bit of hype about them -- and then I later bought one from a UK company

Metal 4: Two new features that will make a difference for Mac gaming

Apple’s relationship with gaming on the Mac has always been… interesting. While the company has spent a fortune trying to frame the Mac as a proper gaming machine, gamers have yet to embrace it like Apple had hoped. But with Metal 4, announced at WWDC25, Apple is introducing two practical moves that could help more AAA games run even better on the Mac. Here’s what they are. But first, upscaling Before we get into the new stuff, it’s worth a quick crack at how Apple’s MetalFX upscaling works, b