Valve forming an orderly queue for the Steam Controller makes it clear we need the same for the Steam Machine, Frame, and perhaps a lot more in-demand tech too

The Steam Controller is out—kinda. If you were lucky enough to buy one in the days, hours, or minutes after they were made available, and before Steam crashed, then you’re laughing all the way to the sofa. If not, you’ve likely been staring blankly at the store page for whenever a restock takes place or…

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Chrome is installing a 4 GB local AI model on some of your PCs without asking for permission and will just download it again if you delete it

Google’s Chrome browser has been quietly downloading a 4 GB local AI model onto user’s devices without asking permission. What’s more, if you manually delete the model, Chrome will simply download it again. It was security researcher Alexander Hanff, who runs the ThatPrivacyGuy website, who discovered Chrome’s dubious behaviour. He found a weights.bin file measuring…

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Videogame ‘beta versions’ are anything but, says veteran RPG dev—real games are ‘sh***y, sh***y, sh***y, sh***y, slightly less sh***y, and it skyrockets’ at the end

I’ve never been one to get in on videogame betas—save the Diablo 4 one which I did purely to get the horse cosmetic (I then never played far enough to get a horse)—but they’re a pretty popular hype-generation mechanism these days. If you’ve got any sort of live-service thing gearing up for release, why not…

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Sony records a $766 million impairment loss against Bungie for the 2025 financial year, a 1-2 punch of Destiny 2 and Marathon failing to meet its expectations

Sony has recorded a wince-inducing impairment loss of ¥120.1 billion ($766 million / £562 million) against Bungie for the financial year ending 2025 (that’s the financial year that ended March 31, 2026, for those of us who operate within the confines of mortal, non-business time). In financial results released today, Sony announced that, following a…

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Everything is Crab review

Need to Know What is it? An action roguelike inspired by Spore’s creature phase.Release date May 8, 2026Expect to pay $9 / £7Developer Odd Dreams DigitalPublisher Secret ModeReviewed on Nvidia Geforce RTX 3080, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAMSteam Deck VerifiedLink Official site The roguelike genre is not only more crowded than it’s ever been,…

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All Genshin Impact 6.6 livestream codes

The Genshin Impact 6.6 livestream codes have arrived, or should I say, the Luna 7 codes, since we’ve hit the 7th version since we first entered Nod-Krai—time flies, huh? As was revealed in the recent Snezhnaya livestream, which previewed some of 7.0, the next major version is arriving on August 12. This means there are…

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‘Regardless of the type of offer, available capacity is essentially zero right now’: SK hynix is reportedly being swamped with ‘unprecedented’ offers to secure memory chips

Though the memory crisis has proven to be a thorn in the side of most major businesses, the scarcity has led to a lot of interest in manufacturer SK hynix. It seems companies are lining up at its doors in search of contracts, and the world’s second-largest memory maker is unable to meet demand. As…

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