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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?

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!

Now we’re playing Doom on... receipts. This has gone on long enough.

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.

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.

Skill Up:

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.

Yesterday Microsoft announced it’s making the classic Zork games open-source, and apparently some folks have gotten a little excited about it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gamers Nexus reports that the cost of many consumer DDR5 and DDR4 RAM kits has increased drastically recently.

Valve hardware engineer Yazan Aldehayyat won’t promise anything, but he told us “that is something we are really interested in supporting” during our big Valve trip. It’s not as simple as it sounds, he says: What if users pull it off the dock mid-update?

Can you tell we’re excited about the Steam Machine? We haven’t exactly been quiet about it. But it’s good to get the reminder that there’s one crucial bit of information we’re still waiting for, and it all depends on that.