I can't live without the Steam Deck's trackpads anymore, and I hope the Steam Controller forces the competition to adopt them

I can’t live without the Steam Deck’s trackpads anymore, and I hope the Steam Controller forces the competition to adopt them

Of the three hardware announcements Valve made yesterday, the Steam Controller is probably the least exciting at face value. It looks a whole lot like the original Steam controller, which hardly set the world ablaze. Also, it’s a gamepad. There are countless PC gamepads on the market, and many are better than what Microsoft or…

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Developers blast the celeb-laden TGAs as ‘an embarrassing indictment of a segment of the industry desperate for validation… with little respect for the devs’

The Game Awards have been and gone, turning the PC Gamer homepage into something like the deranged Instagram feed of someone obsessed with Sam Lake and Swen Vincke, but it’s left plenty to discuss—and criticise—in its wake.  In particular, the show has come under fire for the short time allotted to acceptance speeches and celebrations…

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The new HyperX SoloCast 2 looks like a return to gaming microphone simplicity, whereas its bigger brother is covered in all the bells and whistles you could think of

A good microphone doesn’t need to have a million features to make an impact. Wrap a high-quality capsule in a sturdy frame, convert the output to a USB connection, and provide a stand. That’s about all you get with our current favourite budget gaming microphone, the Amazon Basics USB condenser mic, and it works brilliantly….

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Firefox is getting rid of its ‘Do Not Track’ setting and what it’s being replaced with is a bit of a bait and switch for privacy concerns

Anyone else feel like the past decade has been one of the gradual normalisation of privacy-defiling practices? If so, you’ll be saddened to hear that Mozilla is binning the ‘Do Not Track’ (DNT) privacy option in version 135 of Firefox. It’s already gone in the Nightly developer release and it should be gone from the…

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