First up—is Valve playing chess while the rest of the industry plays checkers, or are they setting a trap for their own community? We’re breaking down Valve’s latest moves and what it actually means for your steam library and wallet.
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News
Xbox
- 10 near-perfect Xbox 360 games nobody played
- GTA 6 file size is dividing gamers
- Xbox fans split over new Xbox Game Pass changes
- Your Xbox could soon emulate PS5 games – developer demos a significant breakthrough
- Xbox in-game ads surface in Microsoft patent
- An 18-year-old game has re-appeared on the Xbox best-selling charts, and likely for a good reason
- 5 Xbox Series X features you’ll need to manually enable
- Rockstar just unveiled strict new mod rules, and GTA 6 might pay the price
- 5 hidden features on the Xbox 360 you should know about by now
Sony
- Kojima Productions issues new official statement on PlayStation and Physint
- Hideo Kojima explains the surprise split with Sony
- Kojima Productions issues new official statement on PlayStation and Physint
- PS5 vs PS5 digital edition: Which is the better buy?
- 1996 PS1 game, ranked among the best of all time, is now free to play
- Sony could turn PS5 DualSense and PS6 controllers into payment devices, unusual patent reveals
- Which Nvidia GPU is equivalent to the PlayStation 5 Pro?
- The worst-looking PlayStation consoles ever made
- Sony drops fresh clues about the PS6 release and price
- Sony adds Mycopunk as PS Plus Extra day-one release
- Sony rolls out PS5 Pro graphics boost and digital incentives
- Brand-new PS5 controller officially revealed, releases on October 30
- Sony patent could turn PlayStation controllers into tap-to-pay credit card terminals
Graphics cards
- Your GPU’s legacy PCIe slot is slower than it should be, but that’s not why you should replace it
- The PC gaming ray tracing obsession began with the RTX 20 graphics cards, released today in 2018
- Modders have fixed Nvidia DLSS 5’s two main issues: performance and support
- I capped my GPU at 70% power and lost almost nothing I would actually notice in a game
- Modder gets Nvidia’s DLSS 5 working in a web browser using WebGPU
- Your graphics card might be running a PCIe generation slower than it should, and Windows won’t tell you
- Nvidia RTX 6080 reportedly delayed to 2028, according to leaker
- How to install DLSS 5 mod for every game
- I ran DLSS 5 on my Radeon GPU, and it’s actually more playable than you think
- My RTX 4070 Ti was heading for retirement until I unlocked Nvidia’s restricted frame generation
- Older GPUs with native DVI ports solve what modern cards broke
- Even a decade later, the GTX 1080 Ti isn’t an easy card to replace
- China’s ultimate gaming GPU hits a performance wall — LX 7G100 barely crawls past AMD’s RX 580
- The right way to clean your PC’s graphics card (and why you should)
Other tech news
- Your USB flash drive gets slower every time you use it (and the easy fix you don’t want to hear)
- The ‘1,000-year’ disc that failed: The weird history of M-Disc
- Your BIOS is playing it safe with 3 settings that should’ve been enabled years ago
- The hidden downsides of DDR5 no one warns you about
- Your C: drive has a ghost folder from 2001 that Windows deliberately refuses to let you open
- Your RAM speed won’t matter if you put the sticks in the wrong slots
- Microsoft’s most useful Windows toolkit turns 30 this year, and it still doesn’t ship with Windows 11
- I plugged a network card into my M.2 slot, and it’s the most boring upgrade I love
- Your new high-refresh monitor isn’t running at full speed—here’s why
- NVMe vs. SATA SSD: What’s the difference between the two drive types?
- My mini PC can fit larger models than my old gaming card, but it still loses on one key metric
- Your modern motherboard still needs a chip designed for decades-old PC hardware
- My games were losing frames to a hidden Windows security feature, and I only found it by accident
- Your PC’s second M.2 slot can do more than you think, and it costs almost nothing
- Why I bought a 16TB HDD instead of an 8TB SSD
- This custom PC with heat-reactive titanium-alloy flowers is yours for a mere $14,000
- I quieted my noisy HDD and added years to its life with a $2 strip of Velcro