The Epic Games chief took potshots at Valve CEO Gabe Newell's expensive megayacht collection after sharing the Steam Deck's massive price hikes on X. The post compared the $240 to $300 increase on the Valve hardware to the $50 to $100 jumps on the Switch 2 and PlayStation 5 family.
Intel has revealed the Arc G3 and G3 Extreme chips, which are built on Panther Lake dies with up to an Arc B390 iGPU. The chips will show up in devices from partners like Acer and OneXPlayer.
Enthusiasts of ASRock's BC-250 server board have figured out a way to unlock all 40CUs inside the system's PS5-derived SoC, giving it more GPU cores than a base PS5.
Lenovo has announced it is conducting an in-depth investigation of its Chinese retail supply chains following allegations that its recently released G02 retro-gaming handheld is enabling piracy.
At Computex next month, Intel is expected to reveal a bunch of handhelds rocking its Arc G3 series of chips, and Acer is now rumored to be one of the manufacturers showing off its devices. New leaks say a "Predator Atlas 8" is in the works that, as the name suggests, will feature an 8-inch screen and might come in both the Arc G3 and G3 Extreme variants.
Third-party firmware has unlocked the ability for Blu-ray players to rip physical game media for retro consoles, transforming the way game preservation and emulation will work for retro gaming enthusiasts.
Star Citizen, originally announced back in 2012, has just amassed $1 billion in crowdfunding despite the game still not having any release date. The game is currently expected sometime in 2027-2028, which means it might have to prepare a PS6/Xbox Helix version as well. A single game spanning across four different console generations.
The Khronos Group, which created the Vulkan API standard and continues to develop and maintain it, added the Steam Machine to its list of conformant products. This does not indicate how far or soon a product will come to the market, but it's a step in the right direction showing that much-awaited console will arrive... someday.
IO Interative's latest James Bond adventure has been hit with the curse of Denuvo DRM, leaving many paying customers frustrated over a deliberate roadblock. With all versions of Denuvo now cracked anyways, there's a high chance 007: First Light will be cracked within a few days of its launch anyways.
A Steam Controller charging puck nearly causes a fire after the wristband on a Pixel Watch 3 magnetically attaches to the charger, causing the exposed pogo pins to arc electricity.
A retro PC enthusiast has modified the VBIOS of a vintage graphics card to embed a version of Snake – the game everyone used to play on their dumb phones.
Lenovo confirms that it partnered with a third-party manufacturer to build, sell, and market the G02 retro gaming handheld in China. However, it allegedly contained thousands of gaming ROMs, many from Nintendo, right out of the box, raising questions about the validity of the licenses of these titles.
What if you wanted to play PS2 games on the go but didn't want to emulate them? Meet the PS2 Portable: an open-source handheld pieced together with a custom motherboard featuring original PS2 silicon and modern niceties such as hall-effect joysticks. It can play any PS2 game natively for up to 4.5 hours on a single charge, which happens via USB-C.
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