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Data analyst finds 'AI stigma' on Steam can reduce the number of reviews a game gets by around 53%—and the reviews it does get are more negative
"For high-potential games, the 'AI stigma' is real and severely punishes developers who otherwise would have succeeded."
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My Most Beloved Lost Gem From The PSP-Era Has Finally Returned
Finally the world can experience the vibey and ruthless R-Type strategy game trapped on the handheld for nearly two decades
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Who is Wiley? Atlanta director Hiro Murai reveals the answer — sort of
Atlanta's weirdest mystery just got one step closer to being solved
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Bryce Clark, game director of Poppy Playtime, has played 23,000 hours of Steam games: 'I'm a bit obsessed with learning the market'
"I'm always playing somewhere between three and six games at a time."
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Toy Story 5's opening weekend was bigger than The Super Mario Galaxy Movie's
No other movie released in 2026 has grossed as much during its opening weekend as Toy Story 5, which made $160 million
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NASA's Perseverance rover has traveled the distance of a marathon on Mars
It did so in just five years.
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Corsair’s tiny touchscreen display is on sale at 20% off ahead of Prime Day — get the Xeneon Edge 14.5-inch LCD touchscreen for just $199.99.
Corsair just put a 20% discount on the 14.5-inch Xeneon Edge touchscreen display. This brings its price down to just $199.99, saving you $50 from its original purchase price.
When the Trump administration cracks down on Anthropic, who benefits?
On the new episode of Equity, we discussed what actually prompted the administration's latest moves against Anthropic, and what this might mean for the AI ecosystem.
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The wait for Winds of Winter just passed a surprising milestone
The gap between A Dance With Dragons and The Winds of Winter has lasted longer than it took George R.R. Martin to write the first five books
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You will never guess who turns up in this video about why you can't build British towns in SimCity 4
Now that's some prime YouTube fodder.
Beyond Siri: Here are the practical AI features coming to your iPhone in iOS 27
Siri’s AI overhaul may have grabbed the headlines at WWDC, but some of Apple’s most useful AI features are arriving elsewhere in iOS 27.
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Ingenious modder converts countertop ice machine into an RTX 3060 GPU cooler with a beer fridge thermostat — mod reduces temps by up to 62% in games, Cyberpunk 2077 runs at 22°C
Turns out, an ice machine can cool a GPU perfectly fine as long as you're willing to modify it to the extreme and are patient enough to deal with the leaks.
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Open-source Vulkan driver NVK gains experimental DLSS support — bringing Nvidia’s upscaling tech to Linux via imported CUDA binaries
NVK, the community-built open-source Vulkan driver for Nvidia GPUs in Mesa, has gained experimental DLSS support.
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Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot dies in plane crash — French publisher established in 1986 became one of the biggest entertainment companies in the world
Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot was killed when his twin-engine private plane crashed enroute to an airshow. Aside from building the French gaming empire, Guillemot was also a licensed and avid pilot.
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Don’t Let It Starve is the latest in a long line of Balatro clones, with a retro horror twist
Polygon's Random Select column finds a writer giving their impressions on a random game. This week it's Don't Let It Starve, a horror roguelike.
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Dishonored review (2012)
Playing a magic assassin in Dishonored’s rusty city of Dunwall is as brilliant as it looks.
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Samsung's 32-inch 1440p 165 Hz gaming monitor falls to its lowest price yet with 46% off for Prime Day — grab the curved Odyssey G55C at just $189.99
Featuring a 32-inch 1000R curved QHD panel, 165 Hz refresh rate, 1 ms MPRT response time, and AMD FreeSync support, the Samsung Odyssey G5 G55C has dropped to its lowest price of $189.99 ahead of Prime Day.
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PS5 Maker Admits First-Party Single Player Games Are Its 'Core Strength'
But live service still part of portfolio.With titles like God of War Laufey, Marvel’s Wolverine, and the enigmatic Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet on the horizon, the future looks bright for first-party single player games from Sony.And while it’s not abandoning investment into live service entir
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One of our favorite budget gaming keyboards drops back down to its lowest-ever price of $45 at Amazon — RK R65 packs lubed switches, metallic knob, and gasket mount for excellent sound and feel
Our favorite 60% budget gaming keyboard, the Royal Kludge R65, is back down to just $44 with coupon at Amazon, its lowest-ever price. This wired clacker delivers excellent sound and feel for the price, thanks to lubed switches, a gasket mount, and silicone pads. It also has a metal knob and QMK/VIA
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House of the Dragon season 3 stars reveal the biggest challenges filming the Battle of the Gullet
The epic conflict required training, complex choreography, and getting very wet.