Items tagged with PC gaming
Rumors of an Xbox 360 Red Ring of Death-like defect for Valve's Steam Machine have been spreading for the past week, but follow-up comments from both Valve and the original poster have assuaged these worries.
The original photo posted to Reddit by u/me_hill
Specifically, user u/me_hill on...
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The launch of Doom: The Dark Ages has unfortunately coincided with not only news of PlayStation killing discs, but also mass layoffs at developer id Software.
This is thanks to the wider layoffs happening across developers and...
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Valve has uploaded a set of four drivers for the Steam Machine (GPU, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and SD card reader) to its official support site, for users that may want to install Windows on their systems. But there are many pros and cons to consider.
For select games that are unsupported by...
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Amid the chaos of a new product launch, Valve has remained hard at work on SteamOS. Not only has SteamOS received a long-promised update to support standard PCs, but tailored SteamOS support for the Steam Deck and other handhelds has...
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Best Buy's Independence Day sale is chock full of discounted Alienware gaming PC. First up is the Alienware Aurora 16X, decked out in Alienware's Interstellar Indigo color scheme. Packing a mobile NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 8GB for just...
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The first report of a "Red Line of Death" error appearing on a Steam Machine has hit the web. Fortunately, there's just one report to speak of so far, so it's probably not an Xbox 360-scale disaster. It's still a bad look for the Steam...
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Those who have been looking out for Steam hardware-related activity have been closely monitoring SteamDB. It paid off late last night as X user @SadlyItsBradley discovered that Valve's Portal 2 (2011) is the first game to be listed as...
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Along with the Steam Machine, Valve has also publicly released SteamOS 3.x, which debuted with Steam Deck. With version 3.8, SteamOS can be installed on any modern desktop, laptop, or handheld PC so long as its using an AMD GPU. NVIDIA GPU...
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If you're bored, have some time to kill, and access to nearly any PC with an internet connection, you can now play Half-Life 2. At least, a rather janky, ugly, and legally dubious version of Half-Life 2, running entirely in a browser tab...
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Shortly after Tim Sweeney's Unreal Fest keynote, he sat down with PC Gamer for an extended interview discussing the future of Unreal Engine 6, "Team Open," Epic's relationship with Valve, and AI-driven game development. As the CEO of Epic...
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To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Nintendo 64 (N64) console launch, 8BitDo is releasing Clear Blue variations of its Ultimate 2 Wireless Controller and Retro 87 TKL Keyboard. This Clear Blue colorway is partially-transparent and...
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Not only was the Steam Machine just launched on the Steam storefront, but a quiet Proton Experimental update has enabled AMD FSR 4.1 on AMD RDNA 3 and RDNA 3.5 GPUs.
Similar to previous community tweaks done with a leaked version of AMD...
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There's been an interesting development in the story surrounding PlayStation games coming to PC. The short story is, executives seem to be contradicting each other on whether or not the practice will continue. Most recently, Sony...
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Valve's Steam Deck opened up the existing PC gaming handheld market to the mainstream and, in so doing, arguably created a whole new class of PC gaming devices. The Steam Machine probably isn't going to have the same impact on the market...
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AMD is firing shots at Apple's MacBook Neo, lambasting its limited game compatibility compared to AMD-powered laptops. The fact is, PC games are more compatible with x86-based Windows systems than the Arm-based MacBook Neo. If gaming is a primary consideration, similarly priced Windows laptops...
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Doom The Dark Ages' DLC expansion, Revelations, is due to arrive on July 7th. The date was confirmed as part of yesterday's Xbox Games Showcase during Summer Games Fest 2026, and the DLC will be available for free to players who already...
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Gabe Newell is one of the few CEOs in tech who is largely viewed favorably by gamers, but critiques of Steam's ubiquity have spurred antitrust lawsuits both Stateside and overseas. The Stateside class action lawsuit initiated by Wolfire...
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Sony is poised to launch its previously-teased and highly-anticipated PlayStation Gaming Monitor, complete with a built-in DualSense charging hook, alongside the FlexStrike Wireless Fight Stick in August. But what actually sets these...
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IO Interactive's 007 First Light has already proven to be among the most successful Bond games of all time, launching to critical acclaim and 1.5 million day-1 sales. The only better launch this year was the long-anticipated Crimson...
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OmniDrive is custom firmware for select Blu-Ray drives powered by the MediaTek MT1959 chipset that allows for numerous proprietary game disc formats to be read or ripped for backups and emulation. One of the more sought after uses for...
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Star Citizen was already the most-crowdfunded game in history when it launched into Early Access on November of 2017, having raised over $174 million USD from Kickstarter, which was well past its highest crowdfunding stretch goal of $65...
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You think your 4K TV is high-resolution? If you've read our article about monitor specifications, you'll already know that it's probably pretty low DPI in the grand scheme. Desktop displays are typically relatively low DPI in comparison to...
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