January 2026

Chalk up a win for small business! The Seattle offices of Valve Corporation—a plucky upstart company co-founded by Washington businessman Gabe “Gaben” Newell—must have been abuzz recently, when its videogame storefront Steam pipped a steamy milestone in its concurrent user metrics. Sorry, I’ve written so many articles about Steam’s concurrent user records that I decided…

You know Nvidia, the AI gaming hardware company that managed to hit a $5 trillion evaluation last year. The AI boom has led to ever-increasing investment into the company, and so it’s really in Nvidia’s interest for the world to be all in on the potential benefits of AI. Huang reflects on the AI naysayers…

After seven years of waiting, the Hytale launch times and release date are almost here, a moment that wasn’t quite so certain only a few months ago. For those unaware, development began in 2015 with funding from Riot Games, who would go on to acquire the team in 2020, only to pull the plug in…

We’ve all been there, a new co-op indie game releases for almost no money (almost). So you complete your civic duty by introducing it to the group chat with a new argument as to why everyone should spend $5 on a game that we’ll for sure play more than once. I’m certainly the guilty party…

What are your New Years’ resolutions? Well, scrap them (you were gonna anyway, let’s face it)—because your new one is to play Disco Elysium if you haven’t already. Ranking highest on our top 100 list for years, until Baldur’s Gate 3 came along, this all-timer RPG is currently around $3 on Fanatical. That’s because it’s…

Intel’s G31, the GPU otherwise expected to be known as the Intel Arc B770, is the rumoured graphics card that just won’t die. It conspicuously did not appear at the CES show, but it’s now been spotted in an Intel Panther Lake driver package, keeping hopes just barely alive. As we understand it, somebody at…