The Steam Deck and other PC gaming handhelds can squeeze a shocking amount of performance out of relatively old integrated graphics hardware. But they’re still essentially tiny little laptops without dedicated GPUs. If you’re developing…
How well will a new game perform on your system? It’s a question that’s never far from the minds of PC gamers, and it’s only getting more relevant as hardware upgrades become expensive, shading to…
Slowly but surely, Linux is gaining a foothold in PC gaming. According to the March 2026 Steam hardware survey, 5.3 percent of users are on some flavor of Linux, compared to 92.3 percent on Windows…
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…
The most exciting hardware for PC gamers this decade is the Steam Deck, a portable handheld gaming PC that’s almost singlehandedly created a product category. Valve’s console-ish follow-up, the revived Steam Machine, was almost as…
Surprise, gamers. Valve just launched the first-ever Black Friday Steam sale, and you know what that means: massive discounts on figurative tons of PC games. You can head over to SteamPowered.com to look around, but…
SteamOS is better than Windows 11. At least, if you want to play games on a handheld, you’re looking for performance and efficiency, and you’re okay going without some anti-cheat games that still only run…
Valve just announced the Steam Machine, a living room PC/console to compete with the Xbox and PlayStation. But Valve already has a living room gaming station! It’s called the Steam Deck and all you need…
The Apple Vision Pro is an expensive flop. I haven’t heard anyone mention the Meta Quest in months, despite it getting a new model just last year. I can’t even remember the name of Samsung’s…
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