Steam has just beaten its concurrent players record once again with a whopping 39.2 million at one time | And there are a few big launches to thank.

More than 300 game developers lost their jobs in one day, weeks before Christmas

Microsoft is pushing fullscreen ads for Windows 11 laptops to people still using Windows 10

'Holy s**t you guys—it happened': 8 years after a terrible launch, No Man's Sky has reached a Very Positive rating on Steam

Ten best selling CPUs on Amazon are all AMD chips

A summer intern once saved Valve from a near-fatal lawsuit

US Department of Justice reportedly recommends that Google be forced to sell Chrome, and boy does Google not like that: 'The government putting its thumb on the scale'

Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content

Valve first came up with the Steam Hardware Survey more than 20 years ago because it wanted to know what specs it should target for Half-Life 2

'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers'

Secret Level's producer can't fathom why Concord ended up failing: 'There was no nicer, more invested group of developers than the team on Concord'

Roblox is banning kids from unrated experiences and Social Hangout spaces in an effort to protect them from paedophiles | Mission failed successfully.

Ex-AMD fab GlobalFoundries has been fined $500K after admitting it shipped $17,000,000 worth of product to a company associated with China's military industrial complex

Reddit just turned a profit for the first time in 20 years and its Google and OpenAI partnerships played a surprisingly small part in it

The guy who gave a negative review to Battlezone 98 Redux after playing 8k hours

Steam now requires developers to tell people when their games have kernel mode anticheat

Baldur's Gate 3 publishing chief calls out Ubisoft's 'broken strategy': If gamers need to get used to not owning games, 'developers must get used to not having jobs'

Intel's former CEO pushed for the chip maker to buy Nvidia for $20 billion in 2005—the GPU company is now worth $3.5 trillion

12 months left to keep Copilot off your desktop or learn Linux

Two years after unveiling a new studio aimed at building 'the next big thing in gaming,' Netflix has closed it down

AI in games might've just proven itself useful for a change—Activision claims Call of Duty's seen a 43% drop in 'disruptive voice chat' since the start of the year thanks to its robo-snitch

Ward Christensen, co-inventor of the BBS and internet pioneer, has died

Forcing users to periodically change their passwords should go the way of the dodo according to the US government

200 Bandai Namco employees reportedly moved into 'expulsion rooms' designed to bore them into quitting, though the company maintains its innocence

Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't own your games

Russia Is Banning Discord

Apple is still limiting the iPhone 16 to slow 24-year-old USB 2.0 speeds

Google's AI generated a 'podcast' from one of my articles and it's incredibly convincing and creepy just how well it can mimic humans talking

Intel has discovered what actually caused its top gaming chips to break and is rolling out another fix

Bethesda bans Doom mod about a resurrected mech-demon Margaret Thatcher because it's apparently a bit close to 'real-world politics'

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