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What memory crisis? 79% of PC Gamer readers are rocking 32 GB or more RAM in their gaming rigs

Sadly that does also mean 21% are on 16 GB or less, with upgrades only getting more expensive.

"Compliance-in-advance is never enough to appease a zealous censor": Robert Yang on the current challenge of bringing experimental gay games to Steam

Radiator Forever, an "ongoing re-remaster/re-re-release" collection of developer Robert Yang's short and experimental gay games has arrived on Steam, giving it a new home alongside Itch.io. In a blog post about the release, Yang has outlined the complex situation facing adult game creators at the moment, with the likes of last year's business with payment processors and online-focused UK laws are making it a lot tougher for games like Radiator Forever to exist on the most prevalent PC platforms

Megakonstruktionen - 24 Tonnen Kleber halten die höchste Kirche der Welt zusammen

Der Bau des höchsten Gotteshauses steht nach 150 Jahren vor dem Abschluss: die Sagrada Família – 172,5 Meter hoch und gehalten von 24 Tonnen Klebstoff.

E-Ink faceplates for the Steam Machine are coming, but not from Valve

I am going to put the filthiest fanfiction on this thing.

Legendary dad fixes their kid's dead RTX 3070 by ripping the capacitor out of an old radio and slapping it on the side, saving over $100 in the process

Is he looking for customers? I have a friend looking for some repairs.

A new Deadlock update leaves Graves and Silver gleeful, but Valve still can't get Shiv right

Valve’s new Deadlock patch notes are great news for Graves but bad for Shiv and Drifter, with adjustments to the Soul Urn and Rift Troopers.

Hooded Horse's new spaceship RPG C-Beams isn't just a riff on Blade Runner - it's a "modern version" of one of my favourite childhood space sims

For many decades, sci-fi buffs have debated the exact nature of the "C-beams" mentioned by Roy Batty/Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner's legendary "tears in rain" soliloquy. Cutter beams used in construction? Weapon systems? Fey astral phenomena? The beauty of the term is its ambiguity, perhaps. Not any more, though. Now, whenever anybody muses moist-eyedly about the replicant's parting phrase, I can say: "actually, he was referring to the forthcoming space action-RPG C-Beams from Distant Light Game

Choirs in Hell: The making of Diablo 4's iconic soundtrack

As Diablo 4’s Lord of Hatred expansion reaches a climactic finale, composers Ted Reedy and Leo Kaliski tell us how its music changed to fit.

KI-Experten und Bildung - »Vor 20 Jahren hätte ich meine Tochter auf eine Eliteschule geschickt« [Best of GameStar]

Wird in Zukunft nicht mehr Wochen und Monate lang gelernt? Laut KI-Experten wird sich in der Bildung einiges ändern.

Starker Rabatt - Die Logitech G502 X Plus wird gerade zum Schnäppchen [Anzeige]

Die Logitech G502 X Plus ist eine der besten Gaming-Mäuse auf dem Markt und jetzt bekommt ihr die weiße Version davon zu einem unschlagbaren Preis.

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced's standard edition is "is the full, complete experience", Ubisoft insist in response to Steam DLC furore

Yarr, ye not be needin' to shell out for the more expensive editions of Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced or its day one DLCs if you want to have "the full, complete experience". So developers Ubisoft have said in response to Steam reviews giving the Black Flag remake a thumbs down because it has a bunch of purchasable extras on sale right out of port. Read more

Indie developer says Steam did them a solid by fixing their unbootable game to beat the Next Fest deadline

"Steam Support went way above and beyond."

Valve's Steam Frame launch looks imminent, with new 'Great on Frame' category spotted

Though there are only four games as of right now.

KTC 25M1 review

Smooth, snappy, and surprisingly well-priced for a high refresh panel.

Arc Raiders has targeted yet another duplication exploit just a couple of days after celebrating a drop in suspicious player accounts

Fixed in record timing.

Id Software co-founder John Carmack "can’t muster anger or outrage" over Xbox gutting the Doom studio, but does say it'll "dampen the mood of the founder reunion"

Aw shucks. That's a bummer. I'm not angry about it, though. Surely this had to happen, just like the execs said it did. I'm paraphrasing quite facetiously, but that is the basic gist of id Software co-founder John Carmack's reaction to the studio cutting 136 workers as part of Microsoft's mass layoffs earlier this week, a devastating blow that leaves the Doom developers facing an uncertain future. Read more

Bethesda union staff to march outside studios over Xbox layoffs: 'The company wants us to accept this as a done deal and quietly disappear'

"We need to show management right now that we mean business."

The great RTS game Tempest Rising has a big The Veti's Wrath DLC announced

A full single-player expansion is command to the great RTS game Tempest Rising. Titled The Veti's Wrath, you'll get some explosive new missions to play.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

AMD Zen 6 server CPUs are launching this month, which has me hopeful for a desktop release this year

Here's hoping the swap to 2 nm is huge.

Steam Machine Verified medals appear on games' store pages overnight, as if left by the Compatibility Fairy

We’ve known for ages that the Steam Machine has a similar game compatibility rating system to the Steam Deck, wherein Valve tests games and slaps them with a Verified, Playable, or Unsupported sticker depending on how much they play technical ball. For the first fortnight and change of the Machine’s release, though, the results of these tests haven’t been visible – alongside the Deck verification info – on those games’ Steam store pages. Read more

Transport Fever 3 devs showcase new Features and Vehicles

Transport Fever 3 developers Urban Games along with their new publisher Paradox Interactive released a new First Look showcase of new Features and Vehicles.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Id Software founder John Carmack mourns layoffs: "Games need to succeed, not just be beloved"

Black Flag Resynced blows every other Assassin's Creed - and very nearly The Witcher 3 - out of the Steam waters

ChatGPT 5.6 - Ist da: Neue App, Codex-Merge und was hinter »Sonne«, »Erde« und »Mond« steckt

OpenAI hat die neue Version von ChatGPT offiziell vorgestellt und dabei gleich mehrere Neuheiten und Änderungen angekündigt.