In a blog post, Valve explained its new randomized reservation systems, new tactics to stop scalpers, and why it has limited inventory.
Valve’s Steam Machine is nice box to play PC games on your TV, and is well-designed. But you’re not getting the latest hardware, despite a starting price above $1,000.
On this day in 1996, id Software unleashed Quake on the unsuspecting public. The game’s influence is difficult to overstate, with its pioneering 3D engine inspiring the first wave of 3D accelerator PC expansion card purchases, the establishment of online multiplayer competitive culture, and much more.
‘Congratulations On Your Purchase’ recently appeared on PC digital marketplaces priced at $999. Its main claim to fame is that it is proudly ‘the most expensive game on Steam.’ Buyers get a golden ticket Steam Achievement….
Get a brand new Nintendo Switch 2 for less.
Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot was killed when his twin-engine private plane crashed enroute to an airshow. Aside from building the French gaming empire, Guillemot was also a licensed and avid pilot.
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Epic Games has just shown off a new year-long roadmap for its launcher, promising to bring community-requested features and a faster overall platform in the next 12 months.
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MSI’s new Arc G3 Extreme-based handheld costs nearly $2,000 but the company is rather apologetic about it, even if it’s warning that the price may rise in the future.
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GoldenEye Recomp v1.0 has been released, providing ‘a native PC port of GoldenEye 007 built by statically recompiling the original game into C++’ with no emulation involved.
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A grease smear-induced optical disc reading quirk can save speedrunners lots of time in SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom on Xbox.
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