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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 […]
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 […]
Sony acknowledges backlash, “cautiously” moves ahead with end of PlayStation discs
Sony is “cautiously” moving forward with plans to stop producing discs for PlayStation games as of January 2028, CFO Lin […]
Pathogenic review: Damn, it feels good to be a virus
cyclospora simulator 2026 The hot new roguelite twin-stick shooter lives up to the hype. In Pathogenic, you are the disease. […]
Just because a game is on disc doesn’t mean it will work in the future
“Disc 2” is just the Internet DoesItPlay tracks the many “physical” games that don’t work without the Internet. Once the […]
New AMD Linux patch boosts low-end gaming performance on Steam Deck
Vernet’s patch instead monitors cores to look for situations where a busy thread would benefit from an improved clock rate. […]
Sony’s decision to ditch discs was practically inevitable, data shows
The beginning of the end Looking back, it’s easy to see why sales of physical games seemed to peak in […]