The PC is one of the most popular gaming platforms in the world, and one that’s constantly changing. Here at The Verge we cover every aspect, including the latest hardware developments from companies like Nvidia and Logitech, massively popular games like Fortnite and Overwatch, and hugely influential digital platforms like Steam and itch.io.
Wooting has done a great job improving the sound and feel of its popular keyboard.
I knew RAM was being sold at market prices just like a catch-of-the-day at a seafood restaurant, but in the UK they must love really expensive lobster or something. One retailer, Curry’s Business, is selling 8GB of DDR4 for £120,000 ($159,000). If you add the UK’s VAT tax on it’s £144,000 ($190,000). I’ll take two, please.
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney thinks rival storefront Steam should stop flagging when games are made with AI, because it’s going to be ubiquitous. In a sense he’s not wrong, but is there a difference between using AI for coding compared to creativity?
indieman:
AI code is different from AI art and writing. Every developer uses autocomplete (which is a form of AI, even before LLMs) and it would be dumb to have disclaimers for that. What people don’t want is AI slop in the games, and that comes from outsourcing artwork and scripts to gen AI.
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It is known that flash storage isn’t forever — but now’s the time to spread the word. Don’t just leave ‘em in a drawer!
Before, most SSDs you’d pull out of an old PC weren’t big enough to use as long-term storage, and they probably had lower-density cells (SLC, MLC) less likely to corrupt. That has changed. Don’t do it.
Now we’re playing Doom on... receipts. This has gone on long enough.
google_was_my_idea:
At this point, Doom might as well replace Hello World as the default launch code for everything.
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At least, according to a new trove of benchmark data collected by Gamers Nexus, which compares game performance on one of the most popular gaming Linux distributions.
They tested several different GPUs, too, so you can get an idea of how your PC might perform if you leave Windows behind.
The AI boom has now turned its baleful eye on RAM, driving prices up so high — and so fast — that stores are resorting to selling at “market price” to keep up. Of course, selling RAM like lobster opens up a whole world of possibilities.
CuriousToaster:
I don’t see how covering RAM in butter is going to help.
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It’s not going to be a sort of subsidized device, like Valve is not going into this thinking we’re going to eat a big loss on this so that we can group market share or category or anything like that, correct?
Valve’s Pierre-Loup Griffais:
No, it’s more in line with what you might expect from the current PC market. Obviously our goal is for it to be a good deal at that level of performance, and then you have features that are really hard to build if you are making your own gaming PC from parts.
And with RAM prices soaring... it might be a console, but not priced like one.
A story about a time-traveling, game-breaking Half-Life 2 door bug is as good a reminder as any that programming is neither an art, nor a science, but one of the deep magicks.
Sly Mr. Fox:
This kind of thing is why good programmers are paranoid and superstitious.
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Yesterday Microsoft announced it’s making the classic Zork games open-source, and apparently some folks have gotten a little excited about it.
alectrem:
no need to fork zork when you can uncork zork straight from the zork zource, its like the opposite of zork divorce in zork court due to a zork tort
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The original Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III games are now available under the MIT license. Microsoft, Xbox, and Activision have teamed up to preserve the clever Z-Machine engine that powered the Zork games and allow students, teachers, and developers to study the code and learn from it. Microsoft has also worked with Jason Scott, from the Internet Archive, to grant this open-source license.
Nathan is jumping to Linux, pushed to the brink by AI agents and Copilot, tempted by the promise of better gaming through Bazzite. This is it, guys.
captobie:
...,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2021,2022,2023,2024, 2025 will be the year of Linux!
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If you’ve experienced performance issues in games after installing the latest Windows 11 October 2025 update (KB5066835) then Nvidia now has a hotfix driver to address the problems. It’s not clear what games have been impacted by Microsoft’s latest update, but you can grab the latest hotfix driver here or wait until the next non-beta release.
Jsaux was early to ride the Steam Deck wave, and it’s even earlier to committing to the Steam Machine. Months ahead of its launch, Jsaux shared renders of two screen-equipped face plates, one of which seems similar to Valve’s not-for-sale e-paper prototype. My big question: how will these be powered?
The company announced its new $219.99 wireless controller for the PS5 and PC last month but it wasn’t immediately available in the US due to “pending regulatory clearance” as a result of the government shutdown. A few weeks later it’s finally available for purchase through Razer’s website.
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I don’t like where Windows is going. Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable. Time to give it a shot.
Just about every response to the Echo Aviation Controller, with its jumble of levers and dials, takes a similar tone. It “looks so dumb,” it’s “got extreme doohicky vibes,” it’s “the game controller version of a Bop-It.” But we all want it.
Bazirker:
This looks like an absolute abomination of a device and I can’t wait to buy one
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I want to know if Steam’s coming to Team Open or not. Paying 20-30 percent to a giant gatekeeper who intentionally structures their services so that, like, Steamworks users can’t talk to Fortnite users and so on, isn’t a very exciting prospect for the future right now.
As today’s Epic and Unity partnership shows, Epic is willing to work with its biggest competition — but I have my doubts that Valve will make the changes Epic wants anytime soon.
Just in time for the holiday season — and, naturally, Epic’s Black Friday & Cyber Monday Sale, which is now live many days ahead of the actual Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
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Valve’s big hardware push: you asked, we answered.
After launching it in beta earlier this month, Valve has officially launched a new feature that lets you keep downloading games even when you turn the display off. I’ve wanted something like this since I first got a Steam Deck more than three years ago.
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Gamers Nexus reports that the cost of many consumer DDR5 and DDR4 RAM kits has increased drastically recently.
But why? There’s a lot to it, but AI datacenter projects, like OpenAI’s Stargate (which the company expects to require 900,000 semiconductor wafers per month), might be contributing to this trend.
