It’s finally here. The much-anticipated Steam Machine, a mini gaming PC designed for your living room, is in my possession—and it’s a lovely device to behold. It’s sleek, futuristic, and very, very Valve. I’ve been testing it thoroughly over the past week, and I’m sure you’re anxious to know the results. Have all my mini…
Valve has announced the price of a Steam Machine, its new SteamOS-powered gaming PC. There are a few options available—two storage capacities and with/without a Steam Controller—and if you’re still interested after seeing the price, you can sign up for a chance to buy one from today. 512 GB: $1,049 USD / 1,509 CAD /…
Can Nova make up for the mistakes of the Pocket Mini? After a few months of relative silence, Retroid has just shared a few initial details about its latest emulation-based handheld in a brand-new tease on social media. The Retroid Pocket Nova, as the manufacturer calls it, is said to feature a “Modern OLED” screen…
On a sc-roll? There are few better ways to spend $9.99 / £8.99 than on Dark Scrolls. The indie Soulslike side-scroller is something I’ll spend the rest of the year dipping into every now and again, itching for a run as a way to kill a train journey. It doesn’t offer the deepest gameplay, nor…
Category: Games The Elder Scrolls Online Prepares to Set Sail for Adventure with High Seas of Tamriel, Its Most Ambitious Experiment in Years Mike Nelson, XBOX Wire Editor Published June 22, 2026 Summary We talk with The Elder Scrolls Online Game Director Nick Giacomini and Associate Design Director Jason Barnes about the upcoming High Seas…
‘Miracle Stadium’ also preserved. Sammy’s unreleased Atomiswave football title Premier Eleven is now playable on Dreamcast, thanks to the efforts of a Dreamcast-Talk forum user called dimps. The Atomiswave arcade platform, in case you didn’t know, is based on the Dreamcast hardware. Not very long ago, a prototype Premier Eleven board was for sale on…
What Museums Do: Versions The certificate, in other words, answers the wrong question — but it isn’t alone in that. Every museum holding these materials has to decide what question it’s trying to answer, and that’s where Latour and Lowe become most useful. They build toward this argument through a more elaborate example: Veronese’s Nozze…
Now that Destiny 2’s massive final update is here, it’s more or less set in stone forever. Destiny is calcified—no more FOMO, no need to re-grind gear, and the end of a seasonal treadmill. That should make me sad, and it does, more so because it’s over rather than that it’s easing off the gas….
Adventure time. We are back with another look at the UK charts, and after a relatively uneventful one last week, we’re excited to see a couple of new releases worm their way into the top 10 this time. The big one for us Switch fans is The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales, which lands…
This article contains spoilers for Critical Role Campaign 4, episode 30. I’ve been rather enjoying Campaign 4 of Critical Role—a 13-player, three-table epic that plans to reinvent the West Marches type of game for a modern actual play show. It’s almost daedalian in scope, pure and utter hubris. It shouldn’t work. And yet, 30 episodes…