EA sets ambitious 100 million player goal for Battlefield 6 as development costs reach $400 million
Slated to release in March 2026
MindsEye studio's troubles continue: staff receive layoff emails, founder blames "sabotage," player count at 22
From bad, to worse, to much worse
Apple macOS Tahoe brings major gaming improvements through Metal 4 and DLSS wrapper support
Cyberpunk, Red Dead II, Starfield, Jurassic World Evolution, and more will become playable
Steam now generates three times more revenue for Capcom than PlayStation
Capcom's latest financial report shows dramatic shift toward PC
Gaming takes the helm: aircraft carrier installs high-end eSports suite for crew
Part of a partnership between the Royal Navy and the British eSports Federation
Switch 2 owners report overheating and crashes, even in less demanding games
Overheating usually occurs in docked mode
The Radeon RX 9070 XT is Now Faster, AMD FineWine
With new drivers and game updates in play, we revisit the Radeon RX 9070 XT to see how it stacks up against our day-one data. Is this real FineWine, or just minor gains?
The RTX 5050 is Nvidia's third 8GB GPU to launch without day-one reviews
Early benchmarks suggest performance is slightly below the RTX 4060
Mindfactory customers are overwhelmingly choosing 16GB Nvidia and AMD cards over their 8GB versions
For AMD, 16GB models are outselling their 8GB counterparts by as much as 30 to 1
Medion Erazer Beast 16 X1 Ultimate Laptop Review
Medion's Erazer Beast 16 X1 Ultimate is a powerful, creator-grade gaming laptop with an RTX 5080, Intel Ultra 9 chip, 300Hz mini-LED display, and the bold design to match its beastly name.
New Steam in-game performance overlay breaks down actual FPS and generated frames
The new performance monitor (detailed here) adds detailed metrics that allows gamers to distinguish between generated frames from DLSS or FSR and the actual game frame rate. CPU, GPU, and memory usage are available as well.
Nvidia to drop driver support for Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs
Legendary GPU architectures that once ruled PC gaming
Thousands in Norway mistakenly told they won the lottery due to conversion error
Code error inflates Norwegian Eurojackpot winnings by 10,000x
The Alters developer forgot to alter its AI text before launch, studio responds after fan backlash
A placeholder asset and subtitle translations contained LLM prompts
Nvidia's RTX 50 Super GPUs leak with more VRAM but modest performance gains
VRAM set to get a boost to 18GB and up to 24 GB, depending on the model
Scammers are stealing indie games and selling them on Steam
Steam appears to lack a proper vetting process to prevent this kind of abuse
The Best Mouse: Our Favorite Mice for Work and Play
Upgrade your PC experience with a better mouse. We've rounded up the best options for gaming, work, ergonomics, and more. Whether you're right-handed, left-handed, or on a budget.
Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 8GB vs. 16GB Tested Across PCIe 3.0, 4.0 and 5.0
We test how PCIe bandwidth impacts 8 GB GPUs like Nvidia's RTX 5060 when VRAM is exceeded and fall back to RAM. Let's see how bandwidth plays a major role in avoiding severe performance drops.
Intel Nova Lake CPUs may finally bring a 3D V-Cache rival to desktop gaming
Leaked specs suggest bLLC cache in Nova Lake to mirror AMD's V-Cache design
New benchmarks show SteamOS outperforming Windows 11 on Lenovo's handheld PC
Frame rate improvements were quite drastic for games like Returnal
That's called progress: SteamOS started life as a lightweight Linux-based system built for Valve's Steam Machines that never really picked up steam (pun intended). Now, it powers the Steam Deck and various other handhelds. New benchmarks show that the gaming OS outperforms Windows 11 on similar hardware.
AMD demo shows procedural generation slashing VRAM use from 35 GB to just 51 KB
Like Nvidia, AMD is trying to offload tasks from memory to the GPU
We Tested the Switch 2 Display - Is It Really That Slow?
The Nintendo Switch 2's display has sparked some criticism for poor motion and questionable HDR. We ran our own tests to see how it stacks up, and found some surprising (and not so flattering) results.
Nvidia DLSS 4 transformer model exits beta, set to bring improved graphics to more games
Even without RTX 50 series GPUs, DLSS 4 improves significantly upon DLSS 3
Why it matters: Most people think of multi-frame generation when they hear about Nvidia DLSS 4, but the transformer model upgrade in DLSS Super Resolution might be the update's most consequential upgrade. Many games can already benefit from the feature, and it's likely to become the standard across upcoming releases.
Study shows gaming can reduce stress, even the violent kind
Editor's take: Violent video games have long been blamed as the source of many societal problems. However, an increasing number of studies continue to show that gaming poses no significant threat to society or human health, and the latest adds an interesting new perspective to the ongoing debate.
Team Fortress 2 is getting another major update with a little help from the community
The last major update, Jungle Inferno, was released in 2017