The first-person shooter simulator returns fire to the player with pyrotechnics and zaps them with a jolt of electricity whenever they get shot in the game.
AMD is gaining on Intel, with user numbers jumping in the last month of 2025. Gamers are also quickly buying in 32GB of memory or more as the memory crisis is taking its hold.
Blur Busters has released an overlay that enables its CRT motion clarity emulator to run in Windows and PC games. Gamers can now enjoy the motion-blur-reduction effects of CRT emulation in PC titles.
Valve has begun the final phase of its plan to end Steam support for 32-bit versions of Windows, with a December Steam client update that changes how the platform runs on modern systems.
Riot Games discovered a vulnerability in several motherboards that potentially allowed cheating DMA devices to run before protections kicked in after boot.
Epic is making strides with Unreal Engine 5's development trajectory, fixing performance issues that've bogged down many new releases. The latest version, UE 5.7, reportedly not only improves CPU and GPU-bound performance but ups the visual fidelity, without any real downsides.
The newly released beta version of Helldivers 2 delivers the same gameplay with far less disk usage, offering PC players a much leaner install without sacrificing performance or progression.
Leaving out the price for the Steam Machine at Valve's 2026 hardware lineup reveal has turned the internet into rumor mill vultures, but now Valve itself has given us a big hint at what the device would cost. The company has confirmed the Steam Machine won't be subsidized like consoles, so don't expect it to be anywhere near a PS5.
Qualcomm has added several gaming-focused enhancements for its Snapdragon Windows-compatible SoCs, including a new control panel, GPU driver updates, anti-cheat support for five new providers, and AVX2 support.
Version 3.0 of Proton gets released, featuring a variety of bug fixes and performance improvements for DX12 games, and also adds support for big features such as FSR 4, Anti-Lag, and Work Graphs.
An independent developer has taken on the job of creating a spin-off version of DXVK that works with DirectX 7 games, bringing DX7 to Linux through emulation with Vulkan.
AMD's Bulldozer-era FX-9590 CPU from 2013 managed to run Battlefield 6 at over 30 FPS at 1080p resolution, boosting to 40+ FPS at lower resolutions on smaller maps. FX-9590, despite being more than a decade old, does support SecureBoot, which was enough for BF6 launch, confirming TPM is not neccesary.