‘We resolved this misunderstanding’: Misery returns to Steam after ending its Stalker DMCA spat with GSC Game World

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…

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Despite Intel dropping the desktop CPU ball this year, its share of the market fell by just 4.9%—while AMD still lags significantly behind on mobile

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…

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We should all just take a moment to appreciate Valve announcing new Steam hardware in 2025 and NOT ONCE MENTIONING AI

Being a tech journalist, hell, even just being a PC gamer in 2025, means that you have to accept that every time you hear from a hardware company about some new product they’re releasing, or feature they’re adding, it will almost exclusively be something to do with AI. Whether directly, indirectly, tangentially, or just plain…

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One small indie developer has accidentally saddled itself with almost 65,000 extra people to thank after initially asking for 100 names to pad out its credits

You know, if you’re a small game development team it probably makes sense you’d want to pad out your credits lest you end up with a “produced, directed, written, and starring” situation. But I assume that Japanese indie studio ConnectedShadowGames wasn’t exactly expecting over 60,000 people to request a special thanks as the credits roll….

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If your Windows 10 Extended Security Updates weren’t working, they should now after Microsoft’s latest patch

It’s been exactly one month since Windows 10 went kinda-sorta-not-really EOL. Microsoft’s previous operating system has stopped receiving official support for most things, but you can at least opt into a year of security updates and keep your system’s defenses, well, up to date. That’s just as long as those updates actually get downloaded and…

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