The era of 1,000 Hz gaming monitors has arrived, but why?
LG’s latest hits one frame per millisecond at a full 1080p resolution.
Kyle Orland
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Gaming // Gaming & Entertainment
Civilization VII finally lets you build a civ that stands the test of time
Civ 7’s devs talk walking back the game’s most controversial decision.
Samuel Axon
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Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California
Publishers would have to offer “independent” play patch or refunds after server shutdowns.
Kyle Orland
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Over a year later, AMD is bringing improved FSR 4 upscaling to its older GPUs
FSR 4.1 running on RDNA3 or RDNA2 GPUs may take a bigger performance hit.
Andrew Cunningham
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Pirates are already playing Forza Horizon 6 days before its launch
Crackers take advantage of unencrypted files that briefly appeared on Steam.
Kyle Orland
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Sony says “efficient” AI tools will lead to even more games flooding the market
But human artists still “must remain at the center,” PlayStation maker says.
Kyle Orland
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The Nintendo Switch 2 is getting more expensive later this year
“Changes in market conditions” lead to $50 price bump on Sept. 1.
Kyle Orland
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Everyone’s a loser in Strait of Hormuz game that simulates global crisis
The game asks players to find the least worst options for a shipping chokepoint.
Jeremy Hsu
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Google DeepMind partners with EVE Online for AI model testing
Move comes as CCP Games spends $120M to go independent, rebrands as Fenris Creations.
Kyle Orland
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AMD is adding HDMI 2.1 support for Linux. That’s good news for the Steam Machine.
Fixed Rate Link being added now; Display Stream Compression coming soon.
Kyle Orland
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The RAMpocalypse has bought Microsoft valuable time in the fight against SteamOS
Op-ed: Valve has made a dent in Windows’ gaming share, but can it keep going?
Andrew Cunningham
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Nvidia fixes the 8GB RAM problem with one of its GPUs—if you can pay for it
Framework charges nearly double for the 12GB version of the mobile RTX 5070.
Andrew Cunningham
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“Super ZSNES” is a stab at a modern SNES emulator from the original developers
Upgrades to SNES graphics and sound go way beyond the typical screen filtering.
Andrew Cunningham
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Steam Controller: The Ars Technica review
Valve’s new hardware is solid but might not justify its $99 price.
Kyle Orland
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Meet the players who lost big money on Peter Molyneux’s failed Legacy
After millions in NFT sales, the hyped “play to earn” game was effectively dead in weeks.
Kyle Orland
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Lawsuit: Nintendo is getting tariff refunds—its customers should get them instead
Lawsuit demands Nintendo pass Trump tariff refunds on to its customers.
Jon Brodkin
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Microsoft removes Call of Duty from Game Pass, lowers subscription pricing
New Xbox CEO says subscription “has become too expensive for too many players.”
Kyle Orland
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Framework Laptop 16 upgrades make it look less like an unfinished prototype
A lower-end Ryzen AI 340 CPU option will also bring the price down, for now.
Andrew Cunningham
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Meta’s AI spending spree is helping make its Quest headsets more expensive
Prices for “critical components” are surging because of massive data center investments.
Kyle Orland
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The Ukraine war’s deep impact on Metro 2039’s development, story
Upcoming sequel wants to capture a “uniquely Ukrainian perspective” on the post-apocalypse.
Kyle Orland
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Retro Rewind re-creates the glorious drudgery of working a ’90s video store
What the nostalgic throwback lacks in complexity it makes up for in repetitive charm.
Kyle Orland
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What leaked “SteamGPT” files could mean for the PC gaming platform’s use of AI
AI tools could help moderators sift through mountains of suspicious incidents
Kyle Orland
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Steam client files point to “framerate estimator” feature in the works
JSON text strings suggest performance charts based on “framerates of other Steam users.”
Kyle Orland
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Valve brings native Steam Link app to Apple’s Vision Pro
New app can replace third-party options that were jankier to use.
Samuel Axon
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Nvidia rolls out its fix for PC gaming’s “compiling shaders” wait times
Microsoft, Intel are also working on their own solutions for the issue.
Kyle Orland
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Playing Wolfenstein 3D with one hand in 2026
Over three decades later, this historical curiosity has more than a few rough edges
Kyle Orland
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Sony is raising PlayStation 5 prices again, this time by between $100 and $150
Memory, storage shortages have made all kinds of consumer tech more expensive.
Andrew Cunningham
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AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip
Both of the chip’s CPU dies will include 64MB of extra cache stacked beneath.
Andrew Cunningham
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Nintendo’s physical Switch 2 games will soon cost more than digital copies
The first physical game affected will cost $10 more than a digital copy.
Andrew Cunningham
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Nvidia CEO tries to explain why DLSS 5 isn’t just “AI slop”
If game makers don’t like it, “they could decide not to use it, you know?”
Kyle Orland
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Major SteamOS update adds support for Steam Machine, even more third-party hardware
Both AMD- and Intel-based hardware is getting better support in SteamOS 3.8.
Andrew Cunningham
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Counter-Strike 2’s new reload system could upend the entire game
Full-magazine reloads throw out muscle memory in favor of “higher stakes” decisions.
Kyle Orland
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Gamers react with overwhelming disgust to DLSS 5’s generative AI glow-ups
Nvidia’s next frame-gen tech goes way beyond upscaling, and not in a good way.
Kyle Orland
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Switch 2’s new “Handheld Mode Boost” can run original Switch games at 1080p
Switch games running at 720p can look worse on the Switch 2’s 1080p display.
Andrew Cunningham
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New “vibe coded” AI translation tool splits the video game preservation community
Creator apologizes after using Patreon funds for Gemini-powered magazine scan processor.
Kyle Orland
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Slay the Spire 2 is a bit too familiar for its own good
Early Access impressions: New characters shine, but it feels like we’ve done this before.
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