Valve unveiled the new Steam Machine earlier this week, and it’s cute (if you’re into cubes, anyway). But it’s not exactly a powerhouse machine: PC Gamer hardware editor Jacob Ridley, who understands this stuff far better than I ever will, called it “fairly underpowered,” noting that it rocks just a 200 watt power supply—a fraction…
“The only thing left this year to save us from life sim malaise is Paralives, launching into early access on December 8,” PC Gamer simmer-for-life Lauren Morton wrote earlier this month about the fizzled “life sim revolution” she was anticipating for 2025. And now here I am to make her year even worse: Paralives has…
Just under a week after disappearing from store listings due to an alleged DMCA strike from Stalker series developer GSC Game World, Sovietcore postnuclear survival game Misery is once again available for purchase on Steam. In a Steam news post, Misery developer Platypus Entertainment said that the game has been updated to address GSC’s DMCA…
If you’re anything like me in Arc Raiders, chances are you come back to Speranza with a broken shield more often than not. Maybe you got into a tussle with another raider or stumbled into the path of a very angry arc; regardless of how it happens, you have to fix yourself up before heading…
We weren’t particularly impressed with Intel’s Arrow Lake desktop CPUs upon their release earlier this year. While chips like the Core Ultra 9 285K and Core Ultra 5 245K are far from sluggish, we clocked them as slower in games overall than some of the comparable chips from the older Raptor Lake generation, and nowhere…
Proceed with caution! Nintendo has finally announced a whole bunch of new information for Metroid Prime 4: Beyond ahead of its launch on 4th December 2025. One thing that’s quietly slipped by, however, is the reveal of a brand-new suit for our protagonist Samus Aran. As highlighted by Nintendo Wire in the below post, the…
I think most people would agree that field upgrades have always been kinda boring. Not bad, just not all that exciting. The new overclock upgrades certainly help, but—ammo crates, trophy systems, scramblers—field upgrades still aren’t that fun in Black Ops 7. Well, that was until I used the Drone Pod. This little device shoots out…
This week marks PS5’s fifth anniversary! To celebrate, we asked you to share unforgettable moments from the last five years using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here’s this week’s highlights: Dande_Lion55 shares the iconic fight between Kratos and Thor in God of War Ragnarōk PattyGnand shares pixel-level celebration in Astro Bot FrameCaptureVP shares Ellie swinging an axe…
Category: Announcements November 14, 2025 Building a Trusted Gaming Future: How Security Powers Fair Play Xbox Platform and Windows Security Team With the launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, it’s a timely reminder of the responsibility we share to uphold the integrity of play. We put together this guide on the latest security…
If you’re anything like me, you’re probably done with AI being forced into Windows. Well, turns out AI in Windows isn’t done with you, as the Windows president has big plans to make your OS even more bloated. Pavan Davuluri, the president of Windows and devices at Microsoft, recently took to X to share their…