Valve has not had great luck making hardware. The Steam Controller failed to revolutionize the controller scene despite its innovative design, the Steam Link worked well but was muscled out by a less-impressive app, and the ballyhooed Steam Machines basically faceplanted right out of the gate. The Index is an impressive unit, but hasn't sparked a meaningful uptick in VR adoption since its release.

By the time we get our hands on consoles, games, and even apps, there have already been multiple revisions during the design stages. Often, we'll see these concepts shared by the developers in various ways later down the line, but in this particular case, it's via a leak.

There's trouble in the World of Warcraft. Not from a rampaging dragon or a demon army attacking the land of Azeroth, but from some unhappy players who, after 17 years, have had enough. On YouTube, Reddit and Twitter, there are stories about people leaving the game. Some cite long delays for new content in a game that charges a monthly fee; others are annoyed at a lack of communication.

Building your own gaming PC is a labor of love. It’s not something that needs to be “easier,” exactly. But from the moment I set a screwdriver to Intel’s new NUC 11 Extreme, aka “Beast Canyon,” I couldn’t help marveling at how brilliant a eight-liter gaming machine can be.

Even more good news for MSFS after its stellar console launch this week.

Jim Ryan says the approach is still "in its infancy"

The lengthy content drought in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is about to come to an end. In two days, fireworks will return to the popular yet activity-starved Switch game. Later this year, more content will come too, Nintendo said in a tweet, though didn’t offer details about what, exactly, that stuff will look like.

Sports gaming doesn’t get much press, but it’s a surging market with increased competition.

Mortal Kombat 11 has sold more than 12 million units worldwide, publisher Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and developer NetherRealm Studios announced. Total sales for the Mortal Kombat franchise have also crossed 73 million console units to date. Additionally, Mortal Kombat Mobile, which is available for iOS and Android, has surpassed 138 million downloads.

It’s a classic hypothetical conundrum: If you could travel backwards in time, would you kill Baby Hitler before he ever did anything wrong?

GDC 2021 is currently underway, and as part of it Rockstar North's Tobias Kleanthous delivered a talk called 'Making the Believable Horses of 'Red Dead Redemption II'. Given that Red Dead 2's amazing horses are a frequent topic of discussion during PC Gamer editorial meetings, I had to watch.

According to an EVGA discussion with JayzTwoCents, EVGA's customer support is in full swing, replacing all of its customer's RTX 3090s that have died from Amazon's New World game. Customers that RMAed their RTX 3090 yesterday reportedly already have new 3090's being shipped to their doorstep.

We’re seeing a ton of new games, and many of them blur the lines between video games and other types of activities.

Yes, it did not stop ALL the scalpers, but it was a lot easier to reserve a Steam Deck preorder compared to the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.

In a new video with IGN, Valve talked a bit more about the technical capabilities of the Steam Deck and its AMD processor, stating that even games releasing this year "have been running without issues."

If you can’t protest in California, try Oribos

You’ll get games for free as part of your Netflix sub.

The massive Nintendo "Gigaleak" never seems to end

Netflix is adding video games as a free add-on to its member subscriptions, the company said in a shareholder letter released ahead of its Tuesday earnings call. While the letter said Netflix is still in the “early stages of further expanding into games,” the streamer’s offerings will first be “primarily focused on games for mobile devices.”

A few people said it was cursed. Others simply had no idea what they were supposed to be making. “Nobody knew what the fuck they were doing,” said one former developer.