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Category: Gaming
Are your PC games crashing after the latest Windows 11 update? Microsoft is investigating whether a nasty new bug is the cause — but there are workarounds
(Image credit: Shutterstock) Windows 11’s August update has broken some PC games Microsoft is investigating reports of crashes, but right […]
Ars Live recap: How can we stop publishers from killing their own games?
Video Game Preservation: Saving Yesterday’s Games for Tomorrow’s Players | Ars Live This week, Ars hosted a live discussion with […]
Redditor somehow turns a Steam Deck into a Game Boy — and I’m loving the ‘SteamBoy’
(Image credit: PhyFawkes on Reddit) A modder has taken the innards of a Steam Deck and put them into a […]
Ars Live: Ross Scott discusses the Stop Killing Games movement
By now, any serious gamer is familiar with a favorite title becoming unplayable after a centralized online server gets shut […]
Developer Cold Iron Studios shuts down cloud version of $60 game with no refunds
Following its announcement in March, game developer Cold Iron Studios has shut down the servers for the cloud version of […]
Valve slowly expands SteamOS support on non-Valve hardware
SteamOS is continuing its slow march to fuller support on a wider variety of non-Valve hardware. This weekend’s release of […]
How to choose your first mechanical keyboard — and why it’s simpler than the internet wants you to think
(Image credit: Future / Alex Blake) Go onto any forum or mechanical keyboard subreddit these days, and it can be […]
New official 30th anniversary Quake mission pack adds new maps and mechanics
This is the premise of the new campaign, as written on the blog post announcing the update: As the battle-hardened […]
‘Nobody was buying them so it doesn’t really matter’ — Xbox console price hike hits the UK
(Image credit: Future) Earlier this year, Microsoft confirmed that the price of Xbox consoles would rise in August, but did […]
