Valve is 30 years old today, and it all began with two former Microsoft employees and a risky bet on games
Newell and Harrington left Microsoft, put their own money on the line, and helped reshape PC gaming
A cracked version of Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls runs better than the original game, and players are fuming
Undisclosed Theia DRM is apparently harder on performance than Denuvo
Someone got Doom running on a 2009 Canon DSLR camera, and it's surprisingly playable
Open-source port supports multiple mods and level packs
Sony's Horizon live service spinoff could be dead by December
Is the industry finally rejecting the overinflated live service business model?
GTA 6 leaker may have access to a playable build as fake downloads spread malware
New footage suggests the leaker could be playing the game directly
Dave Bautista takes over as Kratos in Amazon's God of War series
Production is expected to restart in October, with Ryan Hurst's Kratos scenes being reshot
Back in 1996, Quake's shareware CD locked id Software's entire catalog behind flawed encryption that made it a free-for-all
A flawed CD copy-protection scheme cost id Software 150,000 unsold discs
Modern Warfare 4 beta includes a campaign mission, Switch 2 support, and background shader compilation
Next Call of Duty will run on graphics cards as old as the GTX 970 and Radeon RX 470
Valve's Steam Frame could launch any day now, and it might cost $1,200
The standalone headset features 2,160 x 2,160 LCD lenses and a 144Hz refresh rate
The RTX 5090 Is No Longer Fast Enough
Samsung's first 6K gaming monitor pushes even the RTX 5090 beyond its comfort zone. We test Nvidia's uber expensive flagship to see what gaming above 4K really costs in performance and image quality.
The Blood of Dawnwalker's system requirements dropped by half in just months
This Witcher-like RPG no longer needs a $5,000 GPU to run well
New GTA 6 gameplay just leaked, and Rockstar can't take it down fast enough
Biggest leak since 2022 shows off basketball, brawls, and a six-star wanted level
Sony still hasn't decided when the PlayStation 6 will launch
Specs are likely locked in, but the memory crisis has upset everything
AMD Radeon RX 9050 8GB Review: Budget GPU, Zero Budget Value
AMD's Radeon RX 9050 8GB promises current-generation graphics for budget gamers, but poor performance and even worse value make this GPU nearly impossible to justify.
GPU thieves replaced RTX 5080 cards with RTX 3060s in Chinese esports hotels until a blackout gave them away
Customers apparently never complained about the huge performance downgrade
Gamer drops laptop temperatures by up to 15°C by switching from a wooden desk to a metal table
The laptop stayed between 75°C and 83°C during Cyberpunk 2077
Marvel's Wolverine arrives complete on disc, just as physical gaming fades
Insomniac still recommends downloading the game's day-one patch
Phantom Blade Zero can run on old GPUs, but you'll need way more for ray tracing
A GTX 1660 hits 30 fps at upscaled 1080p, while an RTX 5080 is recommended for 4K path tracing
Candy Crush generates nearly $1 billion annually, 14 years after launch
The enduring popularity of the Candy Crush franchise remains a mystery
This modder shrunk a Steam Deck down to Game Boy size
The SteamBoy has working controls, speakers, and a battery, but still needs a display
Over 1,500 games on GOG are missing updates, DLC, and features available elsewhere
The discrepancies were logged by volunteers in a continually updated spreadsheet
In brief: GOG is primarily associated with retro PC games, but it has also gradually come to include recent indie releases and a few AAA titles. Unfortunately, some shoppers have begun to notice and catalogue hundreds of discrepancies between games released on GOG and the same titles on Steam or the Epic Games Store.
4GB vs. 8GB VRAM: The 1080p Benchmark
AMD is launching a 4GB GPU in 2026, so we revisited the Radeon RX 6500 XT to see how 4GB and 8GB versions compare in modern games. The results are predictably ugly.
Modders give the Steam Machine a Radeon eGPU and water cooling, because why not
Water block lowers temperatures by up to 30°C