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2026-07-04 2 stories
2026-07-03 12 stories
- Early Steam Machine user mourns "red line of death" following GPU failure 6 sources
- Xbox Rolls Out New 'Change' To Help Avoid Data Loss In Forza Horizon 6
- Valve releases Steam Machine e-ink faceplate CAD files and firmware
- This New Xbox Controller Looks Absolutely Insane, And It's Releasing This Year
- This 3K OLED premium laptop with all-day battery life demolishes the competition — and now a discount drops it below $1,000
- Rise Of The Tomb Raider At 60fps On Switch 2 Would Have Required "Serious Compromises"
- Meta's solution to the global memory shortage is to use DDR4 in a DDR5 server, with a custom chip making the impossible possible
- It’s Surprisingly Easy To Customize SteamOS
- Intel quietly bumps the price up of the best CPUs it's made in years to 'reflect current market dynamics'
- EVE Online studio Fenris follows through on yearslong promise to make its in-house game engine fully open source
- Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced promises smooth handheld sailing with Steam Deck and Steam Machine verification
- As the memory crisis continues and players begin to complain, Cinder City drops 64GB RAM requirement and ups GPU requirement instead
2026-07-02 8 stories
- "Am I going back to PS4 days?" - Former PlayStation leader Shuhei Yoshida has tried the Steam Machine, and he doesn't sound very impressed 5 sources
- World of Warcraft's on the quality-of-life boost warpath, with fixes including an auto-loot setting that's been mildly inconveniencing alt-lovers for years
- The FOMO is real as PC storage units are running dry thanks to the RAM Crisis — but this SSD with 14,900MB/s Read Speeds is still in stock and on sale
- Sony's PlayStation 6 is now estimated to cost over $900 in materials alone, signalling a launch price tag double that of the PS5
- Seoul-set MMO shooter Cinder City halves its RAM requirements, after initial specs listed 64GB of memory
- PlayStation Leadership Highlights AI’s Growing Role at Sony
- June Steam Hardware Survey Results: RAM/SSD Crisis Continues, 1440p Gains on 1080p and Windows 11 Rolls On
- Intel's mega-core Nova Lake desktop processors look all but confirmed to have sustained full boost power limits at least 220 W higher than Arrow Lake
2026-07-01 4 stories
- With 32 GB as a minimum and 64 GB as the recommended amount, Cinder City's RAM requirements are all kinds of wrong in today's AI-mangled memory market 2 sources
- WWE 2K26 Patch 1.13 – Full Hotfix Notes
- Feature: Back to budget: Cherry K33 keyboard and Canyon Gaming Star Raider mouse reviews
- 'No bloat, no telemetry, no nonsense.' Former Microsoft coding wizard makes an OG Notepad clone that's just 2,686 bytes in size
2026-06-30 14 stories
- The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered's physical Switch 2 release has the full game on a cartridge, and we've finally got a release date, too 6 sources
- It sure looks like Nintendo is planning to upgrade the Switch 2's oft-criticised LCD screen 4 sources
- Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced details PS5 performance targets and features, with the Pro console getting extra love and 60 FPS across the board 4 sources
- Now Even Rockstar Says GTA 6 Plays Best on PS5 2 sources
- New Linux Support for Zen 6 "Low Power" Cores Lines Up with Previous PS6 Handheld Rumour 2 sources
- Valve quietly drops Steam Machine's 4K 60 FPS claim after $1,049 machine falls short of expectations
- The RAM crisis has made Windows desktops almost unaffordable, but these mini PCs provide a better way to get work done without desk clutter
- Review: Sonic Frontiers Definitive Edition on Switch 2 is a comprehensive technical upgrade, but buying twice stings
- LG’s 27-inch Tandem OLED gaming monitor is cheaper than ever
- I can barely afford AMD and Nvidia's current 4 nm chips, so I'm not sure what to make of IBM's new sub-1 nm technology
- Hyperkin's Drakong Goes Super-Cheap With a New Pro-Style Xbox Controller
- Best Buy's 4th of July sale has discounted Windows laptops with fast performance and plenty of RAM — soothing the memory crisis
- "It's very likely": I hope this 60 FPS rumor for GTA 6 on Xbox Series X and S is true
- '99% of the work was already done in a sense': Valve says it has less to fix with the Steam Machine because they already fixed it on the Steam Deck
2026-06-29 10 stories
- It looks like PlayStation 6 is going to cost Sony about $1,000 to make, which likely means it will cost more than that at retail 5 sources
- Hearing about the future of PlayStation from its top dogs made me so depressed I had to go lie down 5 sources
- DF Weekly: The GTA 6 60fps Debate Returns: Is There a Route Forward on Current-Gen Consoles Like Series X, PS5 or PS5 Pro? 4 sources
- Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced's PS5 Pro trailer looks like YouTube fed it through a wood chipper 3 sources
- With the RAMpocalypse set to rage for years, memory kit makers are responding in one of two ways: Do nothing or go hell-for-leather
- This more affordable Xbox expansion card beats Amazon's Prime Day discount with a 1TB SSD matching Seagate's performance
- It may cost $1,799, but MSI's new handheld gaming PC has already sold out at Best Buy, Newegg, Micro Center, and B&H
- DIY Steam Machine gaming PCs are cropping up — can 3D-printed cases and RTX 5060s actually recreate Valve's magic?
- Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced on Nintendo Switch 2 Console Platform Status
- Amid Steam Machine performance scrutiny, Valve removes '4K at 60FPS' claim