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Microsoft's August 1 increase put the 1TB Series X at €799.99 and £669.99. The cheapest Series S rose 43%, and Microsoft says storage and memory now cost more than 2.5x.
Valve's Steam Machine is a tiny, silent SteamOS console that starts at $1,049. The hardware impresses, the value doesn't, and here's who should actually buy one.
Bethesda confirmed Fallout 5 is in pre-production plus remasters of Fallout 3 and New Vegas, days after Xbox's reset. Here's what's real and what's years off.
Valve's living-room console launches at $1,049 to $1,428. Here's what's inside, why the price ballooned, and how SteamOS lets you skip the hardware entirely.
SteamOS 3.8 is stable, with a new kernel, Steam Machine support, and official builds for the ROG Ally and other handhelds. The Windows monopoly on handhelds just cracked.
Bloomberg's Jason Schreier reports Xbox plans significant job cuts after June 30, as new CEO Asha Sharma tells staff a 3% margin can't continue. Microsoft hasn't confirmed.
Godot, Unity and Unreal get the headlines, but six open-source tools quietly do the art, levels, and dialogue work that real games ship on.
McAfee says a free malware-as-a-service stealer called WeedHack has hit 116,000+ Minecraft systems via fake mods and cheats. Here's what it grabs and how to clean up.
Bloomberg's Jason Schreier reports Bungie has no follow-up project for the Destiny 2 team. Sony is taking tighter management control and Marathon hasn't recovered.
PlayStation Studios CEO Hermen Hulst told staff on May 18 that single-player first-party games will stay console-exclusive. Multiplayer titles keep multi-platform.
Nintendo confirmed a $50 Switch 2 price increase effective September 1 in the US, citing market conditions. The DRAM shortage caused by AI buildouts is the trigger.
Valve published STP and STL CAD files for the Steam Controller and Puck under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 on GitLab. Anyone with a 3D printer can now mod it.
Pirate trackers hit zero uncracked Denuvo titles for the first time in 12 years. 2K's response: a token that expires every fortnight and locks you out offline.
The Playdate Catalog will no longer accept titles that use ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, or Suno output for art, audio, text, or dialog. Existing titles get a label.
Tech YouTuber Techy Talk pulled an early Steam Controller review minutes after posting. The leaked $99 price, gyro, and magnetic TMR sticks have already split fans.