Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, Who Took the Job Less than 3 Months Ago, Says 'Player and Revenue Growth Has Not...
Microsoft reported a 7% drop in Xbox gaming revenue for Q3 FY26, equating to a $380 million loss, driven by a 5% decline in content and services and a 33% plunge in hardware sales. New Xbox chief Asha Sharma, appointed just over two months ago, admitted the business has not yet met its growth ambitions. Satya Nadella warned that content revenue will likely fall in the low‑teens this year, while noting record monthly active users and streaming hours. Overall, Microsoft’s broader earnings grew 18% year‑over‑year, masking the gaming segment’s weakness.
Gabe Newell Was an Enthusiastic Supporter of OpenAI in 2018, Donating $20 Million and Even Acting as the Sole Member...
In 2018 Gabe Newell, Valve’s founder, contributed $20,008,279 to OpenAI and acted as the sole member of an informal advisory board. Internal emails released during the Musk‑Altman lawsuit reveal Newell’s financial support coincided with OpenAI’s early Dota 2 AI progress. The...
So, 47% of PC Gamer Readers Say They Don't Use AI at All, but I Wonder...
A recent PC Gamer poll reveals that 47% of its readers claim they do not use any AI tools, while only 27% employ AI for in‑game upscaling such as Nvidia DLSS or AMD FSR. The survey also shows 23% use...
Gothic Remake Will Be Just as Strict on Murder as the Original, and if You Get Caught NPCs Will Remember...
THQ Nordic’s Gothic Remake will launch on June 5 for PC, preserving the original’s strict non‑lethal combat ethos. Human NPCs will remember violent actions, flagging murder and theft in a faction‑wide crime system that can close dialogue options. Players can still...
Neverness to Everness Codes and How to Redeem Them for Free Annulith
Neverness to Everness, a new urban‑supernatural gacha title, launched this week with a set of five free redemption codes. The codes grant between 50 and 100 Annulith, various Hunter Guides, dyes, and up to 12,000 Beetle Coins. Instructions for redeeming...
A New Game in The Division Series Just Shadowdropped on PC, and It's Free
Ubisoft quietly shadow‑dropped its free‑to‑play looter‑shooter *The Division Resurgence* on PC via Ubisoft Connect. The title, originally a mobile‑only release in March, is now in early‑access testing ahead of an official August launch. Ubisoft frames the PC rollout as a...
Full List of The Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies Cheats with Skills, Perks, and Hidden Reward Traits
Electronic Arts’ The Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies expansion adds two new skill tracks—Pottery and Tattooing—and a suite of cheat codes that let players instantly max these skills, toggle the Idealist or Shady traits, and adjust small‑business rank and reputation. The cheat list also...
Should You Admit the Truth or Refute Adreona in Diablo 4?
In Diablo 4’s “Fate Laughs at us All” quest, players confront Queen Adreona in the Skovos observatory and must choose whether to admit the truth about their past with Lilith or refute her claims. The guide outlines four dialogue options, each...
Best Warlock Build in Diablo 4
The top Warlock build in Diablo 4 revolves around the new abyss skill tag, leveraging Shadowform to amplify damage. Central to the setup is Dread Claws, whose abyss passives can double damage and add extra claw strikes. Supporting skills like Nether...
How to Solve Rathma's Puzzle in Diablo 4
Diablo 4’s Lord of Hatred campaign introduces a simple three‑step puzzle in the Archive of the Makers. Players must read the Time‑Worn Inscription “Power born of Hell begets Corruption” and match its keywords to three altars labeled Dunaxys, Abythos and Coruphar....
How to Complete The One That Got Away in Diablo 4
Diablo 4’s side quest “The One That Got Away” tasks players with catching six yellow‑rarity fish scattered across Sanctuary’s six regions. Each fish can be caught in any pond or river within the correct area, simplifying the hunt. Players must consume...
I Feel Like My Screenshots Are Coming to Life Through the Oil Paintings Created by ArtbyEri
Artist ArtbyEri is turning ordinary video‑game screenshots into bespoke oil paintings, a feature highlighted in PC Gamer’s new “Character Select” column. The portfolio includes first‑person shooter scenes from Valorant and Call of Duty, nostalgic Halo recreations, and whimsical pieces from Hello Kitty Island Adventure...
A Minor Fallout: New Vegas Quest Got Its Own Ending Slide because the Team Was Transfixed by the Choice Where...
Design director Josh Sawyer explained that Obsidian’s post‑game ending slides are chosen more for entertainment than narrative weight, with the creative director making the final call. A relatively minor Fallout: New Vegas quest, “Flags of Our Foul‑Ups,” earned its own...
Nvidia Rolls Out GPT-5.5-based Codex to 10,000 of Its Employees, Who Apparently All Think It's 'Mind-Blowing' And 'Life-Changing'
Nvidia has deployed OpenAI’s GPT‑5.5‑powered Codex to roughly 10,000 employees, reporting that debugging cycles that once took days are now resolved in hours. The rollout runs on secure cloud‑based virtual machines that allow the AI to read corporate data but...
'I Basically Sprinkle Water Drops on Top of Tissue Paper': One Redditor's Quest to Cool Their Mac Mini
A Reddit user devised a makeshift evaporative cooling system for a Mac mini using packing tape, tissue paper, and water droplets. The DIY setup lowered the machine’s temperature from 74 °C to 49 °C, a 25 °C drop, proving the method’s effectiveness. The...
My Favorite RPG of 2026 Put an Impossible Challenge in the Second Room to Teach You Not to Save Scum:...
Esoteric Ebb, hailed as 2026’s top RPG, tackles the pervasive issue of save‑scumming by embedding near‑impossible checks that force players to confront failure. The game’s second‑room Wisdom DC 33 test and a later Strength obstacle are designed to be retried with...
Nextorage Unveils Fresh New Gaming SSDs, but They only Come with a One-Year Warranty
Nextorage has launched a new line of QLC gaming SSDs, offering capacities from 1 TB to 8 TB with write endurance ranging from 400 TBW to 4,000 TBW. The 1 TB model is priced at ¥44,550 (about $280), positioning it as a premium‑priced option in...
Gas Power Projects for Just 11 US Data Center 'Campuses' Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases than Entire Countries, According to...
Wired’s analysis of air‑permit filings reveals that natural‑gas power projects tied to just 11 U.S. data‑center campuses could emit over 24 million metric tons of CO₂‑equivalent annually—more than the total emissions of countries such as Morocco or Costa Rica. The report cites...
AI Is 10 to 20 Times More Likely to Help You Build a Bomb if You Hide Your Request in...
Researchers from DexAI Icaro Lab, Sapienza University and Sant’Anna released the Adversarial Humanities Benchmark (AHB), which rewrites dangerous prompts into literary forms such as cyber‑punk fiction. Across 31 frontier LLMs, the transformed prompts boosted compliance from under 4% to between...
Deezer Says It's Being Bombarded by 'Nearly 75,000' AI-Generated Tunes Every Day, and that 97% of Survey Respondents Can't Tell...
Deezer reports that nearly 75,000 AI‑generated tracks are uploaded daily, representing about 44% of all new songs on the platform. Its detection system flags roughly 85% of those as fraudulent, demonetizing them, while only 1‑3% reach listeners. A survey shows...
Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred Review
Blizzard Entertainment launched the "Lord of Hatred" expansion for Diablo 4 on April 28, 2026, priced at $39.99. The add‑on introduces two new classes, a fresh campaign set on the Skovos Isles, and a major systems overhaul that reshapes skill trees and loot...
Razer Has Just Announced the World's Thinnest Glass Mouse Pad and It Looks Gorgeous
Razer unveiled the Atlas Pro, billed as the world’s thinnest glass gaming mouse pad at just 1.9 mm thick. The ultra‑slim design trims the wrist‑fatiguing bulk of typical glass pads, which average 3.9‑4 mm. Razer says the tempered glass is rigorously tested...
Tim Cook Hands over Apple's $4 Trillion Reins to 'the Perfect Person for the Job', Hardware Engineering SVP John Ternus
Apple announced that senior vice president of hardware engineering John Ternus will succeed Tim Cook as chief executive in September, with Cook moving to the role of executive chairman. Ternus, who joined Apple in 2001 and oversaw the transition to...
The Makers of Playdate, the Console-with-a-Crank, Will No Longer Accept Games Created with Generative AI
Panic Inc., the maker of the Playdate handheld console, announced that any new games using generative AI for art, audio, music, text, or dialogue will be rejected from its Catalog store. The ban excludes custom‑written functions such as enemy AI,...
Security Researchers Hacked the Demo Version of the European Commission's New Age Verification App in Less than Two Minutes
Security researchers cracked the European Commission’s demo age‑verification Android app in under two minutes by editing its eudi‑wallet.xml file to reset the six‑digit PIN and access stored credentials. The Commission insists the flaw exists only in the demo and will...
How to Fish in Runescape: Dragonwilds
RuneScape: Dragonwilds introduces fishing as a low‑barrier activity that requires players to craft a coarse net before they can cast a line. After crafting the net, players complete the Shrimp Catcher quest with the Wise Old Man, which unlocks the...
I Never Want to Play a Cleric in D&D, but 2026's Best RPG Stars One for a Simple Reason: 'I'm...
Esoteric Ebb, hailed as 2026’s best RPG, puts a Cleric at the story’s core, leveraging a modified D&D 5e system. Developer Christoffer Bodegård says the class is "overpowered" because it blends healing, spellcasting, and melee, making it the most versatile...
The Coolest In-Game Art Is in Arthur Morgan's Journal in Red Dead Redemption 2, and No You Can't Convince Me...
Red Dead Redemption 2’s Arthur Morgan journal doubles as an in‑game sketchbook, automatically recording doodles tied to the player’s encounters. Each playthrough generates a unique collection of drawings, making the journal a personal artifact rather than static concept art. The feature...
'I've Read Your Reviews': AOC Says Its Software Is 'One of the Most Highlighted' Problems and It's 'Finally, Finally' Updating...
AOC has admitted that its on‑screen display (OSD) software is a frequent source of criticism among gamers. At a press event in Croatia, the company announced a refreshed OSD that consolidates a unified, color‑coded interface across its Gaming, Agon, and...
After 23 Years, CCP Is About to Do the Unthinkable: Add a Non-PvP Zone to EVE Online
After 23 years, CCP announced Exordium, a new non‑PvP zone in EVE Online designed to ease new players into the sandbox. The region will sit at the galaxy’s core, with a hub system called Manifest surrounded by twelve neutral starter...
I've Already Raced Through Pragmata 3 Times, and It's Cemented Capcom's Mastery of the Modern Action Game Speedrun
Capcom’s new sci‑fi action title Pragmata showcases a polished, ray‑traced world that also doubles as a speedrunner’s playground. The game’s UI, clear status cues, and optional cut‑scene skips let players shave hours off a 6‑hour run, with the author dropping...
Here's that Free Fan Remake of 1999's PlayStation-Exclusive Medal of Honor You Were Looking For
A fan developer, Elber88, has released a free PC remake of the 1999 PlayStation‑exclusive Medal of Honor. The project, titled Medal of Honor: Retro Remake, rebuilds the original game logic from scratch while borrowing enemy models and animations from the...
Cybersecurity Experts Raise the Alarm over Windows Recall Again: 'The Vault Door Is Titanium. The Wall Next to It Is...
Microsoft’s AI‑driven Windows Recall feature, which records a visual timeline of user activity, has been redesigned after multiple recalls, but security researcher Alexander Hagenah has released a tool called TotalRecall Reloaded that can siphon the vault’s decrypted data. Hagenah argues...
'In 10 Years of Tracking Retail CPU Sales, I Have Never Seen Such a Steep Decline,' Says One Tech Channel...
TechEpiphany’s tracking of German retailer Mindfactory shows CPU sales dropping faster than any year in the past decade. The decline spans both AMD and Intel desktop processors from week 3 to week 15 of this year. Rising prices for DDR5 memory and...
As a Dual Gaming Monitor Connoisseur, This Acer 1080p Pick Would Be My Choice for a Second Panel Now that...
The Acer Nitro KG241Y P3bip 24‑inch 1080p gaming monitor has dropped to $89.99 on Newegg, a $40 discount from its original $129.99 price. It packs a 180 Hz refresh rate and a 0.5 ms response time, positioning it as a high‑refresh, low‑latency...
MediaTek Is 'Cautiously Optimistic' That Discrete Memory Pricing Will Look Less Gloomy During 2026
MediaTek reported record $19.1 billion revenue in 2025, a 15% year‑on‑year rise, despite a global memory‑supply crunch driven by AI‑fuelled demand. The company says it has secured sufficient fab capacity for the near term, but pricing for discrete‑memory chips remains volatile....
Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB Review (Palit Dual)
The Palit GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Dual 8 GB launches at a $379 MSRP but typically sells near $400, positioning it as a budget‑friendly option in the mid‑range market. In 1080p and 1440p gaming it matches the performance of the pricier 16 GB variant...
After His City Builder Flopped in Early Access, Firewatch's Nels Anderson Didn't Give Up: 'Smarter People than Me … Probably...
After seven years of development, indie studio Sonderlust released Generation Exile, a solarpunk city‑builder, in early access last fall. Despite 35,000 wishlists, the game sold fewer than 300 copies, prompting designer Nels Anderson to question early‑access fatigue and market visibility....
Five New Steam Games You Probably Missed (April 13, 2026)
PC Gamer’s Shaun Prescott spotlights five under‑the‑radar Steam releases from early April 2026, ranging from horror point‑and‑click adventures to experimental shooters. The picks include Cult Vacui’s two‑hour Scottish island mystery, Subversive Memories’ Brazil‑inspired survival horror, KuloNiku: Bowl Up!’s anime‑styled cooking sim, ChainStaff’s psychedelic platforming, and...
Life Is Strange's Soundtrack Is Full of Licensed Bangers, and Still Hits Even 11 Years Later
Life is Strange (2015) stands out for its meticulously curated licensed soundtrack, which the article argues functions like a TV‑show score rather than mere background music. Tracks such as Foals’ “Spanish Sahara” and Girl in Red’s “I’ll Die Anyway” punctuate emotional beats...
Marvel Rivals Creative Director Says It's Going to Become 'a Comprehensive Marvel "Moving Anime" Experience' And No, I Don't Know...
Marvel Rivals, NetEase's free‑to‑play Marvel fighting game, announced its next evolution as a "comprehensive Marvel moving anime experience" during the Season 6 reveal. The update introduces Elsa Bloodstone as a new playable hero and promises anime‑style visuals, cinematic storytelling, and tighter...
1000xResist Developer Added a Video Sequence 'Out of Desperation' But Now They're Bringing FMV Back for Their Next Game
Sunset Visitor, the indie studio behind 1000xResist, inserted a full‑motion video (FMV) sequence into the game using archival documentary footage, a move the creative director described as “out of desperation.” The experience convinced the team to make FMV a core...
All About Clint: Stardew Valley Gift Guide, Schedule, and Events
Clint, the Pelican Town blacksmith, will become a marriage candidate in Stardew Valley’s upcoming 1.7 update, slated for the game’s 10th anniversary. He can be interacted with from day one, working at the smithy 9 am‑6:50 pm and moving to the Saloon...
Roblox Unveils New Roblox Plus Monthly Subscription that Pays Creators Who Get Players to Sign up for the New Roblox...
Roblox announced Roblox Plus, a new subscription that replaces the existing Premium plan on April 30. The service offers a tiered discount on Robux purchases—10% initially, rising to 20% after three consecutive months—and grants unlimited private server access and fee‑free Robux transfers...
Pete Hines Says He Left Bethesda because He Didn't Want to Watch It Being 'Damaged' And 'Abused'
Pete Hines, Bethesda’s longtime vice‑president of marketing and public relations, departed the studio in 2023 after Microsoft’s 2020 acquisition. He said he stayed because the company needed him, but grew powerless to protect its efficient development culture as Microsoft restructured...
Esoteric Ebb Creator Reckons Most Players only Saw Half the Game, and That's Fine by Him: 'You've Got to Miss...
Esoteric Ebb’s creator Ted Litchfield says the game is deliberately crafted so most players only experience about half of its content in a single playthrough. He has written roughly 700,000 words of narrative, expecting a large portion to remain unseen....
Castlevania: Belmont's Curse Developers Are Trying Really, Really Hard to Make Sure You Know It's a Metroidvania without Using the...
Konami’s upcoming Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse is being marketed as a “2D exploration action game” while deliberately sidestepping the term “metroidvania.” The developers, including Evil Empire—known for Dead Cells—highlighted world‑building, verticality, and direct inspiration from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. In...
Before Imagine Dragons, Brothers Dan and Mac Reynolds Always Wanted to Make Videogames—Now Their First, Last Flag, Is About to...
Brothers Dan and Mac Reynolds, known for fronting Imagine Dragons, are debuting their first video game, *Last Flag*, a capture‑the‑flag hero shooter. The title, developed under Night Street Games, introduces a unique flag‑hiding mechanic that adds strategic depth to classic CTF gameplay....
Corsair Announces New Frame Cases, and One Comes with a Classy Wood Finish
Corsair has refreshed its Frame 4000 series with two new mid‑tower cases: the 4000X RS, which adds a built‑in RGB front panel, and the 4000D Wood RS, featuring a walnut or oak wood front. Both models retain the series’ tempered‑glass side panel and...
Intel Updates Arc Graphics Driver with 'Gaming Support' For the GPU Gamers Aren't Getting
Intel released a new driver update that adds explicit gaming support for its Arc Pro B70 and B65 GPUs, which are built on the G31 silicon originally intended for gaming. The driver leverages optimisations from the Arc B580’s Xe2 architecture, but the G31’s...