Why Some Games Suck After Being Ported From Console to PC

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[Mozilla Developer Blog] How to Back Up Messages From Windows 10’s Mail App These days, it’s rare to see Microsoft’s Outlook email client on anything except a dedicated office machine. Who needs an expensive application when web email is all the rage? But if you’d still prefer to have a local program managing your mail, Microsoft includes a free one with every copy of Windows 10. It’s called…Mail. Read This Article → How to Mute Conversations in Gmail (So You Don’t Get Notifications) We’ve all been a part of an email chain that just won’t quit, and on a long enough timeline it really starts to get annoying. Even if you delete it, boom—it returns again with another reply. Fortunately, you can use the Mute feature in Gmail to permanently silence the chatter. Read This Article → How to Delete WhatsApp Messages Sometimes you just want to delete a message from WhatsApp. Maybe you've sent a message meant for your partner to your mother, or perhaps you just want to hide personal details like a password you've shared. Whatever the reason, let's look at how to do it. Read This Article → Why Some Games Suck After Being Ported From Console to PC If you’re a PC gamer, you’ve probably experienced this situation before: you wait months or years for an exciting new game to jump from major consoles to the PC, only to find out that the ported game is a buggy, broken mess. Read This Article → The Amazon Echo Plus Is a Horrible Smarthome Hub Amazon’s new Echo ($100) is smaller, contains new microphone technology, and boasts better sound. The old Echo form factor has been remade into the Echo Plus ($150), which comes with a built-in smarthome hub. It’s not very good. 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