Valve is giving Steam Deck users with slow internet connections or bandwidth caps a new way to install games on their devices with its new local network game transfers feature..

Let’s just cut to the chase. Is Starfield delayed? Officially, no. And to be fair to Microsoft and Bethesda Game Studios, they already told us we wouldn’t be hearing anything out of Todd Howard’s next epic role-playing game during Wednesday’s Developer Direct showcase. There’s going to be a stand-alone showcase for Starfield at some point. It’s still one hell of an elephant not in the room, especially if two of the four games shown — Redfall and The Elder Scrolls Online’s Necrom expansion — are big Bethesda projects launching in May and June, respectively.

Google will shut down its Stadia cloud-gaming service in the UK on Thursday, as it issues refunds to gamers. Stadia was touted as a "Netflix for games" when it launched, in November 2019, allowing players to stream games online without a PC or console. The service will be inaccessible after 08:00 on 19 January in the UK, with gamers telling BBC News they are "heartbroken" to see it go.

Seven years ago the mobile game "Pokemon Go" took the world by storm, and now its creators are aiming to infuse the same "real-world" appeal into their new basketball game. While players of "Pokemon Go" were guided by their mobile phones to real-world locations to collect magical creatures, "NBA All-World" allows players to challenge each other to games in the street.

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NFTs? No Friggin’ Thanks

The phrase appeared four times in yesterday's official trailer. For a racing sim previously knocked for its repetitiveness, what does it mean?

There have been many great players throughout history in basketball, football, or even chess. Brilliant, disciplined, intelligent — these are a few words one might first think of when describing the famous chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, but “addict” would be quite far down the list.

Atomic Heart developer Mundfish is facing backlash over a statement on its stance on the Russo-Ukraine war. Earlier today on January 16, Mundfish published several tweets from its official Twitter account. Follow-up tweets to the one below state that Mundfish does "not comment on politics or religion," and that the developer is "a global team focused on getting Atomic Heart into the hands of gamers everywhere."

It turns out that some beloved NES games have been hiding incredible secrets.

Rape jokes, racism, bullying - if you've picked up a controller, or scrolled a mouse, to dabble in some online gaming then you've likely come across plenty. The gaming industry, like others where people interact online, has been trying to figure out how to get to grips with behaviour like this for years.

The Information claims to have once again received insider information from sources close to Apple who are familiar with the development of Apple’s XR headset. The report contains numerous technical details about the headset, including new information.

The Last of Us launched in 2013 on PS3 as a prestige narrative experience. The game was developed by Naughty Dog, a studio that had been crucial in setting the standard for story-centric games that emulated a traditional Hollywood format. Its Uncharted games mimicked the spectacle of adventure films by way of Nathan Drake, an Indiana Jones type with the luck of John McClane. But The Last of Us saw the studio pivot from blockbuster action into a genre that dominated the early 2000s — the dystopia — and in the process brought the quality of prestige TV drama to video games.

GuliKit, makers of the truly excellent KingKong Pro 2 wireless controller for the Nintendo Switch, which we reviewed last year, has just released an upgrade/repair kit for the official Nintendo Joy-Cons that brings its drift-free Hall effect joysticks to the handheld console’s native controllers.

Asked about speculation that a Nintendo Direct presentation could take place this month, Giant Bomb reporter Jeff Grubb said he’d heard that a showcase is planned for the week beginning on February 6. “Everything I’m hearing—and it’s all just sort of reiterating it—it continues to be the week of February 6,” he said. “Over and over and over again, every little detail I get is, basically, a week from now we should begin hearing about all this stuff.”

AMD has released an official statement regarding the user reports of Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics cards. In a nutshell, the chipmaker urges affected consumers to contact support. Although the Radeon RX 7900 XTX is one of the best graphics cards, MBA (Made By AMD) models appear to suffer from overheating. The reference design exhibited hotspots peaking up to 110 degrees Celsius; user feedback claims that the RDNA 3 graphics card shows this behavior even with the cooling fans at full throttle.

I used to stop outside the record shop on the way to school or out in town on the weekends and flick through the cassette tapes that were lined up in those tall carousels they use to sell postcards in the street. The cassettes I was interested in didn’t have music on them, but Spectrum computer games. I looked through every one to see one piece of information before I got too excited.

New reports suggest that prototype models of Apple's mixed reality headset are now in third-party developers' hands.

The Logitech G Cloud and Razer Edge could be the first of many in a new class of handheld console.

I never thought I'd become a Deck head, but here I am.