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PCs under $500 to "disappear by 2028." Apparently water's wet, too.
Rising memory and SSD costs will also make "low-margin entry-level laptops nonviable" as AI chip consumption set to continue without a dip.
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The original Cities: Skylines is getting a new Race Day expansion next week, as Paradox parade the fact the series is turning 11
Welp. The Cities: Skylines series turns 11 years old today, so publishers Paradox have announced a bunch of stuff designed to celebrate that occasion. Look, look, they've said, here's a brand new expansion for the original Cities: Skylines and it'll launch next week. Oh and, they've also said, recently under-new-management sequel Cities: Skylines 2 is getting a couple of creator packs. Read more
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Resident Evil Requiem has broken the internet as fans find out Leon Kennedy is married: 'You'll play Chris in the DLC and see an identical ring on his hand'
Place your bets, who do you think the lucky lady is?
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It looks like more memory price hikes may soon be on the way, as Samsung and SK Hynix reportedly inform customers of yet another DRAM price increase
It's going to get worse before it gets better, that much seems clear.
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I swapped my gaming headset for IEM earphones, and I am in love
Over the past few years, I've been searching for the best audio option for my PC gaming setup. It’s been a battle. I have big, satellite-dish ears and the kind of Neurospicy that makes ear cushions and heavy headsets unbearable to wear. I've tried and tested nearly a dozen headsets in my mission to find the best fit, and I recently found it in the most unexpected place: IEMs. Read more
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Hooded Horse's terrific 4X strategy game Old World is getting another big DLC expansion set in south Asia
Hooded Horse and Mohawk Games have announced a new expansion for their resolutely pre-modern 4X strategy game Old World. It's called Empires of the Indus, and as you may guess, it concerns the nations and cultures that once flourished along the banks of the river Indus, running through central and south Asia. Nations and cultures like "the mighty Mauryas, who founded one of the greatest Iron Age empires under the rule of Emperor Ashoka" and "the nomadic horse lords of the Yuezhi who transformed
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This Linux tool was the last thing I needed to wave goodbye to Windows
Not to brag but my range is high AND dynamic.
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UK games collector raided by police after purchasing ÂŁ10,000 worth of hardware, including old dev kits, disposed of by Sega
Corporate calamity.
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Marathon's frustrating lack of duo lobbies has just been tacked onto Bungie's to-do list
Despite already having a fairly long list of Marathon feedback to tackle, Bungie has bolted on two more Server Slam grumbles.
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Ongoing RAM price crisis cited as one of the reasons "game preservation service" Myrient is shutting down this month
ROM distribution site and self-described "video game preservation service" Myrient is set to close down at the end of March, with its operator citing the current rise in RAM prices amid the tech being hoovered up for AI datacenters as part of the the reason they're reaching for the shutters. Read more
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This week in PC games: Marathon, Slay The Spire 2, a promising Disco-like RPG and a monastic garden mystery
Happy this week all! Some weeks, I do a couple of paragraphs of preamble before listing the new PC releases, but this week, there is no time, for the videogames are many, curious and capacious. Bungie's latest shooter and the return of Spire are among the larger drops in a deluge that makes me yearn for the quieter, pre-broadband period when the global economy could only support one videogame a month, and they were all delivered to your PC by horse and cart. Without further ado, FEED THE MAW.
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Microsoft banned the word 'Microslop' in its Copilot Discord server, then began restricting access after users started posting 'Microsl0p' and other funnies
MS takes its ball and goes home. Then brings it back again.
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Battlefield 6 explains how its Javelin anticheat system worksâand it kind of boils down to 'just trust me bro'
EA Javelin anticheat is reporting a 94% success rate.
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Lenovo just unveiled an absurd new gaming handheld with a folding 11-inch screen
For those that thought that even the Legion Go's screen was too small, let alone the puny Steam Deck, we have a new screen size champion.
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Heroic madlad is working multiplayer into Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and the brass ring of the whole thing is functional 2-player Farkle
I'm seeing double: four Henrys!
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Best open-world games 2026: exploring magical worlds
The top open-world games featuring a rich universe beyond our own, from remastered classics like Oblivion to recent releases like Spider-Man 2.
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Meet the man who stuffed as much Deus Ex into Fallout 3 as was "humanly possible"
Here, put on this pair of reflective sunglasses. Now regard the 21st century so far. Doesn’t it look as if the ideas of Deus Ex have spread into the mainstream? Like fire propagating across a dry hillside, the prevalence of emergent action with cascading consequences has spread throughout the gaming medium. Much of this movement towards Ion Storm-style thinking may be coincidental. Were the Nintendo team behind The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild making injokes about the Denton brothe
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Maybe it's time to accept the real Bloodborne remake is the friends we made along the way, following report FromSoftware said no to one
Bloodborne. It's still not on PC. Perhaps a remake might bring it to PC. Ah. Nuts. Original developers FromSoftware reportedly turned down a Bloodborne remake pitch from recently shuttered PlayStation studio Bluepoint Games last year. Read more
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California law to require operating systems to check your age
The time of age assurance is upon us, and not just for social media - for operating systems too and that includes Linux as well of course.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
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World of Warcraft: Midnight's 'stay a while and listen' monologues might've just heavily hinted at a future big bad
"Forget what I have said."
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Top analyst firm Gartner predicts the 'sub-$500 entry-level PC segment will disappear by 2028', along with worldwide PC shipment decline of 10.4% in 2026
'This is the steepest contraction in device shipments witnessed in over a decade'.
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Resident Evil Requiem is currently Metacritic users' top-rated game of all time
Everywhere you look, more impressive Resident Evil Requiem stats reveal themselves - itâs now top of Metacritic's user score charts.