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If you bought a Steam Deck with a 256GB or 512GB SSD inside, you're probably not aware of an issue that affects people with the cheaper 64GB model. You see, games on SteamOS download pre-compiled shader libraries as well as additional data to help with Steam Deck compatibility, and this data can...
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Do play Counter-Strike? If you read this website regularly, there is a very good chance that, even if you don't play CS anymore now, you probably did at some point. However, there's a pretty low chance that you frequently played Counter-Strike in any of its incarnations on a Mac.
That's the ultimate reason that CS2...
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The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) wasn't the first home game console, but it was probably the first one that mattered. With a huge graphical upgrade over the machines of the time, the iconic controllers, and an incredible launch lineup, the NES earned a special place in many a nerd's heart. Now you can...
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Have you ever held a Nintendo Switch and thought, "I wish this were a PC." If so, that's kind of weird, but nevertheless, Lenovo has exactly the product you're looking for. If you read HotHardware regularly, you're surely aware of what we're talking about. It's the Lenovo Legion Go, the company's upcoming...
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When we reviewed the ASUS ROG Ally, we talked at length about how the SoC inside the machine was crying out for a higher power limit and better cooling than the handheld PC could offer. Engaging Turbo mode and then plugging in the charger nets you a peak 30W power limit, yet the Ryzen Z1 Extreme inside the unit...
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If you read that headline and balked at the idea of a gaming tablet, let us remind you that besides the Nintendo Switch, the recent spate of PC-based gaming handhelds are basically tablets. The device itself isn't really the interesting part of this story, though. Instead, the really interesting part is the SoC that...
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There are a LOT of PC-based gaming handhelds out there now. You probably know about the Steam Deck already; Valve's system that basically consists of a Steam Controller with a screen shoved in the middle and a custom AMD SoC inside. You probably also know about the ASUS ROG Ally, as well as the various...
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If you weren't playing video games in the mid-1990s, it's difficult to explain the popularity of the Tomb Raider games. The original title released first for the Sega Saturn, and then quickly showed up on MS-DOS PCs as well as the PlayStation, where it wowed gamers with its then-impressive 3D graphics and immersive...
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People sometimes think of local game streaming as a relatively novel idea, but Sony's been offering this feature since 2008 with the PlayStation Portable. That machine could link up wirelessly to a PlayStation 3 after its 2.80 firmware update and as long as the game was playable with the inputs offered on the...
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Can you believe we're approaching the third anniversary of the release of the Xbox Series X? (That's also the 10th anniversary of the release of the Xbox One, by the by.) Given that three years was the same gap between the release of the PlayStation 4 and its "Pro" derivative, some people have started to wonder if...
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It should probably come as no surprise to fans of so-called "boomer shooters" that Night Dive Studios has just published another KEX-engine re-make of a legendary title. Since you read the headline, you know that the title in question is Id Software's Quake II, from December of 1997. Released as part of a surprise...
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In the old days, going back to school meant stocking up on reams of paper, lead pencils, binders, and if you were really fancy, a TI-82 graphing calculator (high tech!). Some of those might still be on the list of supplies, but these days it's essential to have a capable laptop. Don't sweat it if you're in need of an...
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Windows is by far the most popular platform for playing games on PC, including titles on Steam, but what about Mac and Linux? For a long while, Mac ranked second on Steam, though that just changed and probably for good. According to the latest Steam hardware and software survey results (for July...
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Despite the vague name, Sony's Project Q is much more than just a concept or rumor at this point. The company has already announced its existenceif not much more than thatand we know it's on the way. It's a streaming handheld, intended to use in-home streaming to play PlayStation 5 games from anywhere in your home...
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Do you remember Valve's Steam Machine initiative? A Chinese mini-PC and laptop maker appears to have rekindled the Steam Machine aesthetic and teleported it to 2023. Inside the new Thunderobot MIX is a thoroughly modern partnership between an Intel 13th Gen Core 'Raptor Lake' HX mobile...
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Baldur's Gate is a name that will make a bunch of old CRPG nerds get all wistful and misty-eyed. That game came out in 1998 on five CD-ROMswith a sixth for the Tales of the Sword Coast expansion. It's based on the AD&D 2nd Edition rules, a set of regulations so archaic and arcane that your armor class gets better when...
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In comparison to the Golden Cove and Raptor Cove P-cores featured on Intel's recent desktop CPUs, the Gracemont E-cores are downright puny. However, they're not slow processors in comparison to "CPUs in general." In fact, the per-clock integer performance of Gracemont is not far off of the Skylake core used in every...
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We've still got our ASUS ROG Ally handheld system, and we're still using it on occasion to play a game while standing in the kitchen waiting on food or while covered up in cats on the living room floor. Something we've run into a couple of times is that the microSD card, where many of our games are stored, will stop...
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Today's the day, PC gamers. The day we all both dread and delightthe start of another legendary Steam Summer Sale. There are tons of killer discounts on PC games, of course, and we'll tell you about some hand-picked deals on some darn-good games in a moment. First up, though, let's talk about these Steam...
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Maybe you're concerned about compatibility issues between the Steam Deck's Linux-based SteamOS and the primarily-made-for-Windows PC gaming software it runs. Or, maybe you want a system with stronger specs than the Steam Deck... and you really want an alternative to ASUS, for some reason. If you...
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While ChatGPT is pretty amazing to use and interact with, it raises several privacy concerns, which companies like Alphabet/Google have warned its employees about. As a light example of this, researchers have now gotten ChatGPT to regurgitate Windows 10 Pro keys found elsewhere on the internet and likely scraped as...
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Somehow the news of Apple's Game Porting Toolkit flew under this author's radar when macOS Sonoma was announced at WWDC earlier this month. It wasn't until the developer sessions on using the kit and bringing games to the macOS platform that it really became apparent what Apple was doing. Running DirectX 12 games on...
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