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Steam Frame review: Another best-in-class VR headset by Valve, though virtual realities clash with economic ones
Valve's Steam Frame VR headset launches into a market that barely exists anymore. The device represents best-in-class hardware engineering, but it arr…
Valve’s Steam Frame VR headset opens for orders, with the cheapest model priced at a lenswatering £889 / $1,059
Valve's Steam Frame VR headset launched for pre-orders today, marking the company's entry into the competitive virtual reality hardware market. The wi…
I Tested Valve’s New $1,000+ VR Headset And I Have No Idea Who It’s For In 2026
Valve's latest VR push arrives at an awkward moment for the technology. The Steam Frame, priced above $1,000, represents the company's ambitious bet o…
NBA 2K27 gives DLSS 5 a more faithful-looking game debut than feared, provided it’s running on the LeBron of GPUs
NBA 2K27 becomes the first shipping game to deploy Nvidia's controversial DLSS 5 technology, and the results prove less catastrophic than the gaming c…
Nvidia DLSS 5 releases this week with NBA 2K27, so the AI yassification filter's busy beautifying basketballers early doors
Nvidia's DLSS 5 launches this week with NBA 2K27, bringing the company's latest AI-powered upscaling technology to PC gaming. The new version introduc…
Modders Have Been Playing Around With DLSS 5 And—Oh God, What The Hell Is That?!
NVIDIA's DLSS 5 upscaling technology is generating alarm among modders and PC enthusiasts who've tested the frame generation feature on games beyond i…
Leaked DLSS 5 Mod Shows Just How Much Nvidia’s AI Filter Can Mess With Your Games
Nvidia's unreleased DLSS 5 technology leaked into the wild this week, and the results expose serious problems with the AI-powered upscaling and neural…
Xbox Calls Next-Gen Project Helix A ‘Family Of Devices,’ But Isn’t Ready To Say If Elder Scrolls 6 Will Be Exclusive
Microsoft executives appeared at Gamescom this week to discuss the company's future hardware plans, but they offered little concrete detail about what…
Imbricate human history all over again and throw climate change into the mix in Humankind 2, which arrives 2027
Amplitude Studios has officially announced Humankind 2, a full sequel to its 2021 turn-based 4X strategy game. The game arrives in 2027, giving the st…
Nvidia DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction, out now, ups shadow quality and more accurately illuminates trash bags
Nvidia released DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction on August 25th, marking another iteration in the company's aggressive push to refine ray-traced graphics t…
Raise up a mech pilot and make sure she doesn't get Evangelion-level depressed in the sci-fi visual novel Valkyrie Iteration: Mecha Pilot Raising Pocket Simulator
Valkyrie Iteration: Mecha Pilot Raising Pocket Simulator arrives as a sci-fi visual novel that blends the raising sim genre with mecha storytelling an…
I'm a decade-plus FromSoftware sicko, and these are my 5 takeaways from the first Duskbloods gameplay
A FromSoftware veteran has shared their initial reactions to Duskbloods, the newly revealed action RPG exclusive to Nintendo Switch 2. The player, wit…
We all knew game hardware spending would drop, but the July percentages are still shocking
Hardware spending in gaming collapsed harder than expected in July, with month-over-month declines hitting levels that caught even industry observers …
Dire Forecast Predicts 39 Million Fewer Consoles Sold If PS6 And Xbox Helix Are $1,000
Industry analysts warn that console sales face a catastrophic decline if PlayStation 6 and Xbox Helix launch at $1,000 price points. The forecast proj…
Clipmatrix is a Counter-Strike-like, bunny hopping, platforming romp through surreal and industrial locales
Clipmatrix channels Counter-Strike's movement physics into a momentum-based platformer that elevates bunny hopping from exploit to core mechanic. The …
Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida told Clair Obscur devs to not call it a 'turn-based RPG' so people wouldn't 'overlook' it
Shuhei Yoshida, the legendary former PlayStation boss, advised the developers of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 to avoid labeling their game as a turn-ba…
This artist’s custom GTA 6 PS5 controller design is probably better than anything we might actually get
An artist has created a custom PS5 controller design for Grand Theft Auto 6 that outclasses what Rockstar Games will likely release officially. The de…
Bethesda Warns Skyrim & Fallout 4 Players of Mod-breaking Update
Bethesda has issued a warning to Skyrim and Fallout 4 players ahead of major patches arriving August 18 on Steam. The updates will break compatibility…
Foundational Freeware Indie Metroidvania Knytt Remade For Its 20th Anniversary
Knytt, the foundational freeware metroidvania from the early 2000s, returns with a modernized remake for its 20th anniversary. The original game, crea…
Poll: Do you turn your PC off at night?
PC Gamer polled readers on their nightly shutdown habits, with an important clarification: sleep mode counts as leaving the system running. The survey…
David Brevik, creator of Diablo, reveals the 'worst ending' to any game he's played: 'But I really love the game. It's amazing'
David Brevik, the visionary behind Diablo's dark action-RPG blueprint, recently shared his thoughts on game endings during a PC gaming retrospective. …