Games Archive

Jay PetersJun 25

Meanwhile, at Nintendo.

It’s been a bad day for tech and gaming, but you wouldn’t know it from Nintendo — which often goes its own way. At least Star Fox seems good.

It’s a bad time to want a new computer

Jay PetersJun 25

Here’s a bunch of Prime Day deals on keyboards, mice, and other peripherals we like

Nathan Edwards and Antonio G. Di BenedettoJun 25

Xbox prices spike another $100 or more

Jay PetersJun 25

Bungie hit with ‘significant’ layoffs after ending Destiny 2

Andrew WebsterJun 25

EverQuest Legends is a powerful nostalgia machine

Take me home, Commonlands roads

TC SottekJun 25

Andrew LiszewskiJun 25

Casio’s new collaboration gives the G-Shock a Pokémon makeover.

If you’re a fan of rugged wearables and pocket monsters you’ll want to mark July 1st in your calendar as the day you can preorder Casio’s new Pokémon-themed G-Shock GA-110 watch through a lottery system on the company’s Japanese online store. It’s priced at ¥33,000, or around $204, and expected to release on July 17th.

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1/5Image: Casio Japan

Dominic PrestonJun 25

So that’s what Valve was thinking.

After Valve confirmed its Steam Machines all use one 16GB RAM stick, not two 8GB ones, a helpful commenter has explained why.

jsowers:

Gotta leave one motherboard slot open for Jesus

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Jay PetersJun 24

Xbox will let you play games over the cloud while they update on your console.

Nice way to get around having to just sit and wait for an update to download. Microsoft is testing the feature for Xbox Insiders.

Available for XBOX Insiders: Updates to Gamertags, Game Hubs, and Wishlists - XBOX Wire

[XBOX Wire]

Jay PetersJun 24

Valve clarifies: all Steam Machines, for now, will ship with one 16GB stick of RAM.

In an interview with Gamers Nexus, Valve had said that the PCs would ship with either one 16GB stick of RAM or two 8GB sticks of RAM. “We misspoke here - all units will actually have one 16GB stick of RAM,” the company says in a follow-up statement to the channel. “It’s possible that this might change in future builds, but the units that customers are currently signing up for will all come with one 16GB stick of RAM.”

Jay PetersJun 24

Valve is leaving the door open to refreshing the Steam Machine more often than the Steam Deck.

“I think it’s a little bit less important to have a fixed performance target for 5 years or something for a product like [the Steam Machine],” Valve’s Pierre-Loup Griffais tells PC Gamer. “I don’t think we’re thinking about it with quite as long of a time frame as something like a Steam Deck.” Though it doesn’t sound like there are any near-term plans for a refresh of some kind.