Feature Wooshy wuxia actioner Phantom Blade Zero is sharp enough on the Steam Machine, if blunted on the Steam Deck Valve's mini-PC makes the cut Oct. 30, 2026 James Archer
Feature Can the SideWinder Game Pad, Microsoft's first game controller, work on modern PCs? I bought three of them to find out The past and fiddly present of the Xbox controller's ancestor Oct. 29, 2026 Amity Gilmour 76 comments
News Steam Frame kernel updated with external CD-ROM drive compatibility just one day after a user asked Valve for it Sure, why not! Oct. 27, 2026 Ashley Schofield 21 comments
Review MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ review - superlative playing power with familiar Windows handheld caveats The new fastest Not A Steam Deck has some of the same old problems Oct. 21, 2026 James Archer 8 comments
News The rumoured Steam Frame OLED would fix one of the Frame's minor weaknesses and do nothing for its major ones The promised lens Oct. 15, 2026 James Archer 6 comments
News Valor Mortis' system requirements appear to have been drastically cut, just before the FPSoulslike launches Still something of a tough runner, mind Oct. 12, 2026 James Archer 10 comments
News Valve have released the Steam Frame's CAD files, but there’s already a cottage industry of DIY wrist straps and lifesize skull stands Oh, and the skull is liquefying, neat Oct. 12, 2026 James Archer 3 comments
News Nvidia are abandoning their RTX 5090 graphics cards in order to focus on AI dev friendly RTX Pro ones, leaker claims Well, my chances of being able to afford one in the current climate were slim anyway Oct. 12, 2026 Mark Warren 41 comments
News AMD's handsome FSR 4 upscaler is coming to handheld PCs this year, though Steam Deck support could take longer Render me this Oct. 8, 2026 James Archer 2 comments
News My horror that 32GB RAM has become the norm is exceeded only by my contempt that 7.28% of you have over 4TB free hard drive space Thoughts on Valve's latest hardware survey Oct. 7, 2026 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 65 comments
Feature Desktop and handheld prices going out of control means PC bargain hunts lead to my old enemy: gaming laptops Whelp, you don't make peace with your friends Oct. 2, 2026 James Archer 52 comments
News RAM shortages are only getting worse and will last until at least 2028, Micron boss declares from atop a mountain of money "Much higher prices" set to be paid next year Oct. 2, 2026 Mark Warren 24 comments
Feature Supporters only | I just found a button on my mouse that fixes its biggest problem, I just wish I'd pressed it two years ago Something's clicked Oct. 2, 2026 Julian Benson 7 comments
Feature I'm not sure the "AI" in my chair's lumbar support actually counts as AI, but it has been smart enough to help my posture Sitting pretty Oct. 1, 2026 Jon Martindale 52 comments
Feature The Steam Machine handles Control Resonant capably, but the promised Steam Deck support is a letdown Aberrant behavior Sept. 23, 2026 James Archer 14 comments
Feature Prebuilt Steam Machine faceplate screens are here, delivering decent, surprisingly cheaper alternatives to Valve-approved DIY builds Get some ink Sept. 22, 2026 James Archer 10 comments
News The Steam Frame’s first post-launch update speeds up charging and ungarbles a mic bug Fancy a top-up? Sept. 21, 2026 James Archer 6 comments
News "We're trying to make it easier": Valve confirm the Steam Frame is just the start of plans to get Steam games working on compatibility-challenged ARM PCs Let’s talk about FEX, bay-bee Sept. 16, 2026 James Archer 18 comments
News Valve considered making a new VR game for the Steam Frame, before tackling the "ludicrous" task of getting Half-Life: Alyx running standalone Welcome to City 17, again Sept. 15, 2026 James Archer 28 comments
News Valve decided that cutting the Steam Frame’s specs to avoid price rises wasn't "the right product choice" for the VR headset "Adjusting those didn't really fit what we were trying to deliver" Sept. 14, 2026 James Archer 5 comments
Review Steam Frame review: Another best-in-class VR headset by Valve, though virtual realities clash with economic ones God, I wish this were £600 Sept. 14, 2026 James Archer 40 comments
News Valve’s Steam Frame VR headset opens for orders, with the cheapest model priced at a lenswatering £889 / $1,059 RAM shortages strike again Sept. 14, 2026 James Archer 7 comments
Feature NBA 2K27 gives DLSS 5 a more faithful-looking game debut than feared, provided it’s running on the LeBron of GPUs Nvidia's latest AI tool presents improvements and lingering concerns alike Sept. 8, 2026 James Archer 16 comments
News Nvidia DLSS 5 releases this week with NBA 2K27, so the AI yassification filter's busy beautifying basketballers early doors Hide your face if you don't want be yassifAIed Sept. 1, 2026 Mark Warren 15 comments
News Nvidia DLSS 5's AI yassification filter reportedly escapes containment ahead of release, thanks to modders digging files out of NBA 2K27 Set for an official release this autumn Aug. 28, 2026 Mark Warren 58 comments