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The green Xbox nexus logo glowing against a black background, from Microsoft's Xbox Wire announcement art.
Gaming·

€200 more for an Xbox Series X: Microsoft's memory bill lands on European buyers

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, a small black cube console, sits on a wooden cabinet beside a fishbowl in a living room.
Gaming·

Valve's Steam Machine is back after 14 years, and reviewers are split on the price

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.

Fallout power armor key art showing a figure in battered T-60 armor against a painted desert sky.
Gaming·

Bethesda put Fallout 5 in pre-production. The New Vegas remaster is what fans actually wanted

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 Steam Machine, a small cube-shaped living-room PC console, shown in its product render.
Gaming·

Valve's Steam Machine starts at $1,049, not the $750 it planned. The RAM shortage ate the difference.

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.

An Xbox wireless controller, the face of Microsoft's gaming division
Gaming·

Xbox is planning major layoffs in July as new CEO Asha Sharma overhauls the unit

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.

Illustration of open-source game development tools beyond the engine
Gaming·

Beyond the engine: six open-source tools that shape how games get made

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.

Minecraft promotional artwork accompanying coverage of the WeedHack malware campaign
Gaming·

116,000 Minecraft PCs got infected by fake mods. The 'WeedHack' stealer is free to anyone.

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.

Promotional artwork from Bungie's Destiny franchise, the live-service game whose content support is ending in June 2026.
Gaming·

Destiny 3 isn't in production. Bungie is heading for significant layoffs after Destiny 2 wraps in June.

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.

Doom running on Bazzite Linux on a handheld gaming device
Open Source·

Elizabeth Figura's NTSYNC driver shipped in Linux 6.14. Wine 11 retired esync and fsync over it.

Linux 6.14 merged the NTSYNC driver Elizabeth Figura wrote at CodeWeavers. SteamOS 3.7.20 loads it by default; Wine 11 went mainline on it. Here's what changed.

Nintendo corporate social-share artwork used on the official news release announcing Switch 2 price revisions
Gaming·

Nintendo hiked the Switch 2 by $50. AI data center demand for memory chips drove it.

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.

Steam Controller hardware shown from above
Gaming·

Valve open-sourced the Steam Controller's shell. Dbrand had a skin ready in 48 hours.

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.

Composite image of a PC gaming setup with overlay text suggesting cracked DRM, accompanying a Tom's Hardware report on Denuvo's full bypass.
Gaming·

Denuvo's single-player DRM is fully cracked. 2K is forcing 14-day online check-ins to fight back.

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.

Nintendo Switch console and dock on a white background.
Policy·

Two gamers are suing Nintendo. They want the tariff money back, not the company.

After the Supreme Court killed Trump-era tariffs in February, Nintendo filed for refunds. A class action says those refunds belong to customers.

Steam Controller hardware press image.
Gaming·

$99 Steam Controller leak: a YouTuber broke embargo and Reddit thinks it's too much

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.