ConnexionRTX 50-series black screen issues should finally be fixed this week in an official Nvidia driver update
VBIOS fixes are now here, too, so we should see more actually usable RTX 50-series cards. Neat.
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New figures show Valve's Steam Deck is still by far the biggest selling handheld gaming PC but the form factor isn't really taking off
Forecast for gaming handheld sales in 2025 still far lower than 2023 peak.
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Excellent throwback mod Team Fortress 2 Classic is coming to Steam later this year
Hats off.
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Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, February 26
Today's Wordle: Help with the daily puzzle.
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I thought Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii would burn me out on the Like a Dragon series, but now I know that's never going to happen
Ryu Ga Gotoku releases banger after banger, and as their games get more popular, they continue to get weirder.
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'I'm an idiot': MrBeast says he lost 'tens of millions of dollars' of his own money on Amazon's Beast Games
"I lost money. I would have more money if I didn't film it."
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Get ready to get weird in Pathologic 3: Quarantine, a free 'prologue chapter' about a young doctor looking for immortality in the world's most miserable town
The Pathologic 3 prologue is set to launch in March.
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Monster Hunter Wilds' new cooking system is a win for balance, but there's a Meowscular Chef-shaped hole in my heart
The new way is faster, but I'd happily go back to having a personal chef.
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Former Piranha Bytes veterans unveil their new dungeon crawler, and it's tripping my Arx Fatalis alarms in all the right ways
Cralon is a game about a guy who falls into a mine and decides to keep going down.
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Warner Bros. is closing Monolith, Player First Games, and WB San Diego, and has cancelled its Wonder Woman game
Warner wants to focus its future efforts on Harry Potter, Mortal Kombat, DC, and Game of Thrones.
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The Sims 4 is finally bringing the burglar back to the series after a decade away
Burglars, police, and burglar alarms are all coming to the base game in an update today.
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Framework takes aim at 'janky, locked-down, disposable, underpowered, and frankly, boring' entry-level laptops with its new 12-inch touchscreen
"This is a defining product for us, and we can't wait for you to try it."
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Framework's first desktop PC is giving us the AMD Strix Halo machine we've been craving, and the opportunity to build our own
The first modular desktop PC from Framework. What do you mean they're already modular? They're certainly not like this...
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The Callisto Protocol studio lays off more employees, but 'remains operational'
Parent company Krafton declined to provide numbers but one former employee said "most of the devs" have been let go.
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This Sims 2 mod makes all your sims very horny but that's not actually the best part
Ever feel like your Sims aren’t messy enough? Crank up the romantic randomness.
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With RTX 50 series cards not supporting 32-bit PhysX, some owners are taking to shoving a secondary card into their rig just to run older games better
We've gone back in time to PhysX-dedicated GPUs again.
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Inzoi director says 'we have great respect for the legacy The Sims has built' and doesn't see their game as a director competitor: 'Our aim is to provide a different experience'
Hyungjun Kim wants life simmers to sample all of the goods.
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Fable is delayed until 2026: 'Not maybe the news people want to hear [but] it’s definitely worth the wait'
"Quite frankly the most beautifully realized version of Albion you’ve ever seen."
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This post will self-destruct in 5 seconds: Steam's first ever spy game festival is kicking off in May
The Spy Video Game Rendezvous will feature a week-long spy fest accompanied by a spy games direct, featuring trailers from upcoming espionage romps.
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Asus ROG Destrier Core review
A comfy mesh gaming chair that is a little too bland for my liking.
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Avowed's inert cities remind me just how good we had it in Skyrim and Oblivion
Without reactivity, there can be no immersion.
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PUBG's creator is focusing on raising funds for his next project to 'insulate the team' so they don't end up making 'just another PlayerUnknown game'
Some serious future-proofing.
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Monster Hunter Wilds release times and preloading
Hop on your Seikret and gather your friends, it's nearly time to go hunting.
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New leak claims AMD's upcoming RX 9070 XT GPU hits over 3.2 GHz and could be an overclocking beast
Could overclocking be the saviour of this generation of GPUs?
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As a lapsed 4,500 hour veteran of Dota 2, the big new Wandering Waters update has lured me back—but despite the changes, the game still feels stuck in its ways
River rapids and evolving frog-men can't quite shake up the meta, even if a hard-earned victory feels as sweet as ever.
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Jennifer English (Shadowheart) and Nolan North (Nathan Drake) will be the illustrious hosts of the Future Games Show this year
Illustrious headwobbles and action heroes, with a heaping helping of games to share.
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Soulsborne fans tackle the ultimate boss of private healthcare, paying off beloved community figure's huge bill within hours while collectively urging: 'Don't you dare go hollow'
"I don't know how to express how unprepared I was for the level of generosity I've received."
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Balatro's new cards really show that every dev in the games industry is hooked on Balatro
I mean, it's pretty great!
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Reddit reports of 9800X3D CPUs dying in ASRock motherboards are racking up fast, but a new BIOS update seemingly only addresses boot problems
There's surely more to come from this story...
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Desktop pets are so back, baby!
I can't believe desktop pets are actually back and they're more fun than the early 2000s.
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Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater system requirements are here, and it's yet another game that requires an RTX graphics card and tonnes of free storage to play
Pour one out for those still on a GTX card.
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Two Point Museum review
Two Point Studios' latest endeavour may be its best.
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I still can't beat the sheer value for money this 240 Hz Lenovo RTX 4070 gaming laptop provides for $1,399 and it's starting to bug me
A deal that has brought me to my metaphorical knees on more than one occasion.
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One educational company accuses Google's AI summary of leading to a 'hollowed-out information ecosystem of little use and unworthy of trust' in latest lawsuit
'We believe this isn’t just about Chegg'.
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Dungeons & Dragons' first post-revamp adventure book says hey, let's put some dungeons and some dragons in this thing
D&D in your D&D.
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