I wouldn’t think that preserving your game collection would be so controvertial, but there are a lot of disc rot deniers. Saturday’s podcast @ 9am PST will go over disc rot, if it exists, and this is the last time I’m going to mention it.
I also lost all my unique high-level stuff in Minecraft. I’ll show you the aftermath.
We also have honey-roasted, double-dipped, twice-baked and deep-fried gaming news!
Here’s all the news that was mentioned in the podcast…
Microsoft
- Xbox Game Pass is officially losing 4 more games soon
- Microsoft’s plan for a digital Xbox future may include digital licenses for disc games
- Xbox’s leaked roadmap points to disc-to-digital conversion, PC backward compatibility and 360 games from 2027 | ThinkComputers.org
- Xbox Game Pass adds day-one game from Pokemon developer
- Xbox’s leaked roadmap points to disc-to-digital conversion, PC backward compatibility and 360 games from 2027 | ThinkComputers.org
- The 5 worst versions of Microsoft Windows ever released
- Windows 11’s system requirements killed my old laptop — so I made it a home server instead
- Microsoft rolls out major Windows 11 updates as August 11 deadline looms
- Microsoft just fixed File Explorer, but it’s still broken
Sony
- Veteran PC gamer embraces PS5 Pro amid rising PC upgrade costs
- PS Plus monthly free games for August 2026 are officially available now
Valve
- Steam Frame believers, stop chanting and come see: Lepton and FEX now on Steam
- Valve’s Steam Frame price leaks and I don’t think Meta has much to worry about
- CachyOS beats SteamOS on my ROG Ally X, and Windows 11 isn’t even in the running anymore
- Gaming’s current nightmare is probably the new normal
- Steam Machine Faceplate Modding Into a Magnetic Controller Dock | ThinkComputers.org
- I stopped recommending Bazzite after realizing any Linux distro can game just as well
- 5 free games every Steam Deck owner should have installed
- Free PC games to claim in August 2026 on Epic, Steam, and Prime Gaming
Other tech news
- 4K Blu-ray discs still beat streaming where it matters most
- Most PC gamers are now playing with more than 8GB of VRAM
- Your failed hard drives aren’t 100% dead: 6 things you can still do with them
- Gigabyte is launching B550 AM4 boards in 2026 because things are that bad
- 5 graphics driver settings you should never leave at default
- I capped my 240Hz monitor at 120 FPS. My GPU thanked me for it
- I still see Resizable BAR disabled on many PCs, and it is quietly costing people free GPU performance
- Mismatched RAM sticks will tank your PC’s performance, and most people don’t realize it until it’s too late
- My Linux PC was sluggish for no obvious reason—Claude helped me revive it
- A Microsoft executive got Doom running in Paint using a clipboard hack
- Your work laptop may be snooping on your home network—here’s how to stop it
- I ran a DLSS 4.5 versus FSR 4 blind test on my own games, and the result wasn’t the landslide everyone claims
- Overlooked monitor settings that are hurting your gaming experience
- Here’s how AMD Zen 6 could help eliminate gaming frame rate stutters
- Use your GPU for ai…
- I found silent data corruption on my NAS months later because I ignored one scrub setting
- The only 5 Linux distros I recommend for laptops—after 10 years of using Linux
- These 5 lightweight Linux distros make Windows feel so bloated
- Here’s how your ISP and the entire internet know that you’re using a VPN
- These 3 projects immediately justified my new UV printer
- This ignored monitor setting is probably making your games look worse than they should
- Is your gaming PC built to last? Here’s what you need to know
- Even RTX 5090s struggle to run Nukemark, and I thought I’d throw my humble home rig at it
- Jellyfin’s core team just walked out, and I’m still not going back to Plex
- I finally understand why VLC refuses to make money — and it’s genius