Picking the best GPU of 2025 has been the biggest challenge of my near 20-year PC gaming tech testing career. Now my brain hurts

I love graphics cards. They’re absolutely my favourite PC component. That’s not a hot take; I’m a simple man and thing-makes-pretty-pictures-flow-faster-in-front-of-eyes is an easy thing to become obsessed with. And I’ve had a long time to get nerdy with them, too, having built my first PC in the early ’90s and been professionally testing PC…

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The Silksong subreddit is conducting elaborate ritual ban sacrifices in an attempt to cure ‘silksanity’ and secure the game’s release

It’s become my solemn duty to keep tabs on the whole Silksong situation. The “we announced a game several years ago and barely talk about it” situation. The “we have people coming up with conspiracy theories including Napoleon” situation. The “every time there’s a showcase, we bet it all on red and lose” situation. Imagine…

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Valve’s reported profit-per-head from Steam commissions is out there, and at $3.5 million per employee it makes Apple and Facebook look like a lemonade stand

Remember last year when leaked documents from a court case between Valve and indie dev Wolfire Games revealed that—per the calculations of its own data scientist Kristian Miller—Valve makes more money per head than Facebook, Apple, Netflix, and any other tech titan you care to name? That was remarkable, as news days go, but there…

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A ‘little educational game for middle-schoolers’ left DayZ’s creators obsessed, inspired, and embroiled in a contentious presidential campaign: ‘It’s 4.5 years later, and I’m still talking about this story’

During the pandemic, while most of us were stuck inside, the RocketWerkz dev team, including former DayZ creative director Brian Hicks and head honcho Dean Hall, were roaming around in Eco—an early access sandbox that Hicks describes as a “little educational game for middle-schoolers”. Hicks was there at the birth of the modern survival genre,…

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Next Week on Xbox – New Games for July 7-11

Category: Next Week on Xbox Next Week on Xbox – New Games for July 7-11 Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief Published July 4, 2025 Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Xbox on PC, and Game Pass! Get more…

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Phoenix’s terrifying team-up in Marvel Rivals Season 3 has me starting a campaign to get Wolverine banned in all my matches

I’ve played Marvel Rivals almost every day since launch, and while I’m far from the best, most consistent player, I’ve hovered around the Grandmaster regions in competitive, peaking at Celestial 2. At times, trying to take Rivals seriously and play competitively has been an act of self-targeted psychic damage, largely because the hero balance has…

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Open-source Morrowind project just got an update 3 years in the making that might have me saying bye to the vanilla game for good—oh, and you can load Skyrim in it now

Having begun work on it sometime after the domestication of rice, the heroic mad lads over at OpenMW—the open-source engine reimplementation for The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind that lets you play it with a minimum of fuss on pretty much any modern OS—have finally released its much-anticipated 0.49 update. Okay, work actually began on it…

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