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Steam Machine review: A singular living room PC that's more expensive than I'd like, but too special not to love
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Steam Machine review: A singular living room PC that's more expensive than I'd like, but too special not to love

Have to say, it was more fun when the Steam Deck launched. That was a cool thing, afforded the space and the grace to just be a cool thing. The new Steam Machine, by contrast, arrives at a time when the creative industry it relies upon is being stripped to the bone, and the physical components it’s built upon are trapped in a historically terrible econo-ravaging. Also, everyone hates each other. As powerful as Valve are, there’s only so much a little SteamOS box can shrug off. The

Steam Machine prices start at ÂŁ879 / $1049, Valve confirm, as "randomised reservations" open for the SteamOS PC
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Steam Machine prices start at ÂŁ879 / $1049, Valve confirm, as "randomised reservations" open for the SteamOS PC

After months of delaying, price worries, and scarce component-wrangling, the new Steam Machine is ready for launch. Valve have confirmed that the reservation system for orders – an initially randomised variant of how they’re current selling the Steam Controller – is open now for signups, and have lifted the embargo on Steam Machine reviews. That’s ours, right there. Also, we finally know just how much you’ll be asked to pay for the diminutive SteamOS system. Ready?

Steam Machine review
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Steam Machine review

A wonderful design can't beat the ugly realities of pricing, performance, and consumer value.

The Mimic codes (June 2026)
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The Mimic codes (June 2026)

Get hundreds of spirits and the odd free revive credit to keep you safe and sound in the silent woods when you redeem these new The Mimic codes.

Crab Tycoon codes (June 2026)
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Crab Tycoon codes (June 2026)

Earn things like free cash and shells to big boosts, powerful crabs, and appraisal speed bumps when you redeem these new Crab Tycoon codes.

In strategy game Scream Operator, you run every inch of a haunted house ride from the all-important pre-show to the Chainsaw Guys
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In strategy game Scream Operator, you run every inch of a haunted house ride from the all-important pre-show to the Chainsaw Guys

In Scream Operator: Haunted House Manager, you become an architect of alarm. A draughtsman of dismay. A mechanic of panic. A… haunted house manager. It's a "cosy-spooky" themepark strategy sim in which you attempt to maximise the chills and earn fat stacks by arranging your Grim Reapers just so. By day, you supervise guests as they queue through the pre-show and board the cars, generating Immersion and Fear points as they witness the props and trigger the scares in each room. By night, y

Best Amazon Prime Day deals for PC gaming
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Best Amazon Prime Day deals for PC gaming

Find the best discounts for your gaming PC with our hand-picked deals this Amazon Prime Day 2026, with mice, keyboards, monitors and more.

Gothic 1 Remake review -  the classic RPG returns with countless subtle improvements
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Gothic 1 Remake review - the classic RPG returns with countless subtle improvements

Old-timey German RPG Gothic had a few spiritual successors, but most were offshoots from the same studio. Thanks to pre-digital distribution limits of 2001, it was obscure in North America, which of course means it never existed. It didn't even have Mario in. But Gothic was also special. Gothic 1 Remake (whose refreshingly honest, direct name honours us) chose a path made of tightropes: to be neither a perfect recreation or a wholly new entity wearing its skin, but to modernise and improve whi

Geareo is an extremely pleasing clockwork building game with pull-out model kits and flippable paper manuals
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Geareo is an extremely pleasing clockwork building game with pull-out model kits and flippable paper manuals

Many are the games that feature "clockwork" objects, and all of them are liars. "Clockwork" in most games is a brass-edged cube with some images of moving gears on it. You attach the cube to, for example, a huge scythe blade, and it makes the huge scythe blade spin, but I need you to understand that no kinetic energy transferral is taking place. You've just activated a line of code that reads something like "MOTOR POWER = YES". The whole thing is a mockery of physics! The only thing that scythe

Accidentally thrusting Morrowind to death just got more difficult, thanks to engine reimplemention OpenMW's chunky new update
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Accidentally thrusting Morrowind to death just got more difficult, thanks to engine reimplemention OpenMW's chunky new update

We've all done it. One moment, you're playing The Elder Scrolls 3. Then, boom, you pass the thrust and everything implodes. Thankfully, the latest update to OpenMW - the open source engine reimplementation that's one of the the best ways to play Morrowind on modern hardware - includes measures to stop this thrusting from accidentally breaking the game. Read more