Your Android phone can play some Steam games. Here’s how
Your phone can play games. You already know this if you’ve perused an app store in the last 15 years, or seen the absolute dregs of YouTube advertising. But did you know that your phone…
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Windows 11 can still run the PC games you grew up with. Here’s how
Who doesn’t remember PC games such as Maniac Mansion, the King’s Quest series and the dubious adventures of Leisure Suit Larry or software such as Microsoft Works and Lotus Smart Suite? These titles originally came…
Single-stick RAM tested: Fine for some games, a disaster for others
Modern desktop PC memory modules are supposed to come in pairs. The reasons why are complex, but basically they work better that way—kind of like how internal combustion engines often come with even numbers of…
Cracking Denuvo games in Windows just got easier—and insanely dangerous
Digital piracy has never been without its dangers. Back in the glory days of Limewire you could turn your PC into a cesspool of viruses with just a few MP3 downloads. But the newest tools…
Intel joins Microsoft in a push to load PC games faster — up to 37X
Intel is joining Microsoft in releasing precompiled shaders for its own graphics cards, which will save you time in loading and then playing PC games. Intel said earlier this week that it will store precompiled…
Nvidia calls DLSS 5 the ‘GPT moment’ for graphics in PC games
We’ve only just gotten some of the headline features of DLSS 4.5, and now Nvidia has announced the next version. At its self-branded GPU Technology Conference in California, Nvidia revealed DLSS 5. The headline feature…
The FBI is investigating malware hidden inside games hosted on Steam
The FBI is investigating a hacker suspected of publishing several video games laced with malware on the popular PC games store Steam, the agency said Friday. In its announcement looking for victims who may have…
Stop deleting your games. Just buy an external SSD
Running low on space? It happens a lot, especially among gamers who play a lot of triple-A games. You could delete some stuff to free it up… or upgrade your PC storage… but the problem…
It’s the end of the road for Sony’s PC games
Sony’s PC ports have not sold well. As a result, Sony has decided to stop porting its games to PC, according to a report by Bloomberg. The company is also worried that selling its games…
Microsoft preserves gaming history by open sourcing classic Zork games
Last week, Microsoft made the classic games Zork, Zork II, and Zork III available as open source under the MIT license. “Our goal is simple: to place historically important code in the hands of students,…