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Tech through the lens of play: hardware, displays, performance.
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Adding an external game or application to Steam is not terribly useful when the Play button stops launching it. That is the regression Valve has now fixed in the Steam Client Beta on Linux, following a troublesome few days for users relying on non-Steam shortcuts.
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Alien: Isolation 2 is revealing more about the predator at the center of its survival loop. Creative Assembly wants a Xenomorph that looks more responsive while also making repeated player tactics increasingly unreliable.
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NVIDIA has detailed the creative controls behind DLSS 5 for game developers. Its 3D-Guided Neural Rendering is an additional stage that adjusts lighting and materials after the engine has rendered the scene. NBA 2K27 can look noticeably richer in character close-ups, but independent measurements make clear that the visual uplift is not free.
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EA SPORTS FC Mobile moves into its 27 season on September 24. Beyond updated squads and the game's third-anniversary celebration, Electronic Arts is introducing two systems with a much clearer effect on how matches are played: Game Plans lets teams change shape and mentality during a match, while Gauntlet makes squad depth matter by limiting how often individual player items can be used.
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The Steam Machine keeps inviting the wrong comparison. It sits under a television, boots into a controller interface and looks every bit like a game console. Then Valve gives you a Linux desktop, replaceable storage, standard PC peripherals and the freedom to install another operating system. As a console, its price and graphics performance are awkward. As a purpose-built couch PC, it is a stranger and more convincing device.
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Capcom has reached the final weapon in its Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance showcase. The Long Sword closes the series with faster Boost-powered strings, reinforced counters and yet another reason to stay dangerously close to whatever is trying to flatten the hunter.
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Sony is not simply replacing one PS5 headset with another. Its refreshed Pulse family now has two clearly separated tiers, with the standard Pulse inheriting technology previously associated with Pulse Elite and Pulse Edge pushing further into premium territory.
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The global games business is forecast to approach $214 billion in 2026. That sounds like the end of the crisis. Inside studios, it does not feel much like one: teams are still being cut, giant projects remain increasingly difficult to finance, and player attention has become one of the industry's most expensive resources.
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Gaming headsets keep accumulating wireless modes, batteries and dongles, but a 3.5 mm cable still solves an impressive number of problems. JBL's new Quantum 120 leans into that simplicity at €44.99 while bringing over spatial audio and software customization from the wider Quantum range.
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For most of its history, a Roblox game lived inside Roblox. Roblox Everywhere is starting to break that rule. Creators will soon be able to release standalone versions of their games across mobile, PC and consoles without giving up the engine, multiplayer services or existing Roblox community.
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CONTROL Resonant looks like exactly the kind of Remedy game that could have arrived with frightening PC requirements. Instead, the entry point is almost conservative. The real hardware cliff appears only when its most expensive lighting features are switched on.
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A few years ago, 360Hz already sounded excessive outside professional esports. Acer has now pushed its Predator XB253Q U1 to 1000Hz without dropping the resolution to 720p. The new monitor runs its full 1920 × 1080 panel at the headline refresh rate.
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There is now an annoying trap hidden inside a very simple search. A licensed Palworld game really did open mobile pre-registration in South Korea this week. It just isn't Palworld Mobile. Pocketpair currently has two separate mobile adaptations in development, built by two different companies for noticeably different kinds of play.
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Samsung added another 60Hz to a monitor that was already operating beyond one kilohertz. Odyssey G6 G60H has moved from the 1040Hz specification shown at CES to a finalized 1100Hz mode. The difficult part is no longer refreshing the LCD that quickly. It is giving the display a genuinely new game frame every 0.91 milliseconds.
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The gaming-monitor refresh-rate race has crossed into four digits twice in the space of a few days. Acer has a 1000Hz Predator at IFA, Samsung has an 1100Hz Odyssey, and comparing those two numbers alone misses the most important distinction. One is driving Full HD at its maximum rate. The other trades resolution for the last 500Hz.
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Acer's new handheld gets smaller in the place users will notice immediately and stays surprisingly large where battery capacity is concerned. Predator Atlas 7 moves the flagship design to a 7-inch chassis while retaining an optional 80Wh pack and most of the hardware found in its larger sibling.
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Licensed controllers often stop at a new colour and a logo on the touchpad. Sony's two Grand Theft Auto VI DualSense designs add something more tactile: palm-tree patterns are moulded into the grips, while the central finish shifts through Vice City's blues, purples and pinks as the light changes.
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DAVE THE DIVER already works comfortably as a portable game. On September 17, that portability shrinks from a handheld console to a phone. MINTROCKET says the iOS and Android version is a full port, with several small changes aimed specifically at playing on a touchscreen.
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A DLL buried inside NBA 2K27's PC early-access build went from an unused file to a working Control experiment within hours. It has since spread across games that were never designed to support DLSS 5.
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Console players are not simply receiving the June 2025 PC build with controller support attached. Funcom is treating Dune: Awakening's PS5 and Xbox launch as another major version of the game, complete with its full solo experience, the end of Book One and more than a year of accumulated revisions.
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Ubisoft has spent years adding missions, seasons and gear to The Division 2. Its next major upgrade works on something much less visible: who players can actually play with. Crossplay arrives in November after what the studio describes as a partial rebuild of the game's online architecture.
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Sony Interactive Entertainment showed Pulse Elevate nearly a year before telling players what the speakers would actually cost. The missing numbers are now in place: preorders open September 1 and the first PlayStation-developed wireless speakers launch November 12 for $219.99.
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Xbox is trying to remove one of the more annoying differences between buying a game in a box and buying the same game digitally. Insert an eligible disc into a console with a drive, launch it, and a digital entitlement can be attached to that physical copy. The useful part is what happens afterward: the disc keeps working.
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Eleven years of guides, favorite builds and muscle memory are about to meet a new version of The Witcher 3. The Remastered edition certainly has the expected visual work, but CD Projekt RED is also rebuilding character progression and altering the feel of combat. That makes September 29 more interesting than another pass at sharper Novigrad cobblestones.
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The Steam Machine was built around the idea that a small SteamOS PC could sit under a television and run a PC library itself. Nvidia is now adding another route. GeForce NOW will officially support Valve's box later in 2026, which means a game can be running on remote RTX hardware while the Steam Machine acts as the client in the living room.
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The appealing part of Once Human's console launch is continuity. A player who has spent months on PC or mobile does not necessarily need to start again on PS5 or Xbox, and friends are not being divided into four separate platform populations. The awkward part is that account linking is not a merge system.
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Factory complexity does not always wait until a machine is actually built. Satisfactory was doing enough work while players moved some holograms across existing structures to cause repeated performance spikes, and patch 1.2.4.0 changes that part of the placement process.
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There is something slightly odd about a game built around checking what has appeared nearby deciding that, sometimes, you do not need to check at all. That is exactly the space Pokémon GO's new Explorer Gadget is moving into.
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Pre-orders for PlayStation's Marvel’s Wolverine collection open August 19 at 10 a.m. local time in France. The range includes a €649.99 Battle Yellow PS5 Digital Edition bundle, two €84.99 DualSense controllers and several €74.99 PS5 and PS5 Pro console covers. Everything is due September 15 alongside Insomniac's game. The more interesting part is the design itself: this limited edition actually tries to translate Wolverine's visual identity onto the hardware.
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