Gaming

Valve's Steam Machine is here: starts at $1,049 for 512GB or $1,349 for the 2TB version

Highly anticipated: After months of delays and growing anxiety about memory prices, Valve has officially confirmed pricing, configurations, and a June 30 launch date for its Steam Machine. The living-room gaming box starts at $1,049 for a 512GB model and climbs to $1,349 for the 2TB version – a significant premium over the sub-$750 figure that had been anticipated when Valve announced the hardware in November 2025. Getting one at launch, however, is far from guaranteed.

The studio behind Fallout: New Vegas and The Outer Worlds is being sued over wage and hour violations

Ori director says Game Pass needs "smash hits," not studios slopping out mediocre content

A hot potato: Things aren't going well for Xbox right now. With the massive changes, studios closing, and the future of the brand itself being questioned, Game Pass has also found itself under the spotlight. According to the director of the Ori games, the subscription service would be much more successful if studios weren't incentivized to "slop out mediocre content like a factory."

A 35-year-old copyright rule could let Ultima's creator make a new game EA can't stop

Cyberpunk's disastrous launch still haunts CD Projekt Red, but hopes The Witcher 4 can win players back

A modder is finally bringing seamless co-op to Dark Souls II, over a decade later

TL;DR: More than a decade after its original release, Dark Souls II is set to receive a significant fan-made multiplayer update. A modder is currently working on a new "seamless" co-op mode that would theoretically allow the game to be played from start to finish in a single, soul-crushing session.

Palworld's studio won't use generative AI because "gamers don't want it"

MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ with Intel Arc G3 launches at $1,800

A company just publicly admitted it expects to lose a day of productivity to GTA 6

Ripple effect: If you own a current-gen console, there's a chance you're one of many people who have booked time off work on November 19. That's when GTA 6 launches, and one company is apparently going to be so impacted by the number of missing employees on that day that it's issuing an operational pause.

Minecraft's Chaos Cubed update adds Sulfur Caves and the unpredictable Sulfur Cube

Cybercriminals have been distributing malware via Steam for a year, tens of thousands affected

Sandisk's new PS5 SSDs cost up to $2,960, that's five PlayStation 5 consoles

Stop Killing Games lost its biggest battle despite 1.3 million signatures, but the fight isn't over

Sony patents PlayStation controller buttons that get harder, softer, and grab your fingers

Logitech completes G3 lineup with budget gaming keyboard and mouse

EA launches new platform to put even more ads inside games

Xbox is closing Ninja Theory and Double Fine, and Compulsion may not be far behind

Onimusha: Way of the Sword releases September 25 with surprisingly modest system requirements

AMD mocks MacBook Neo's PC gaming support, says it runs only 5 of the top 20 titles natively

Microsoft's shader stutter fix is now available for all AMD Radeon GPUs, Nvidia users have to wait

Microsoft may consider Xbox spin-off or joint venture as console business struggles

Arm is bringing Android its own version of DLSS – game with Unreal MegaLights will show it off

Ubisoft to cut 380 jobs and shut down studios in Canada and Serbia, report claims

Gaming PC saves owner from bullet fired by neighbor's dog