The memory apocalypse has already hit prices of RAM and SSDs as AI data centres buy up all the available stock, and it's only going to get worse according to Jefferies Equity Research. As reported by Wccftech, memory prices are likely to go up between 40 and 50% in the third quarter of 2026, and then another 30 to 40% in the fourth quarter, followed by a 40–45% increase year-on-year...

Even if building a gaming PC is prohibitively expensive for most people in 2026, software continues to be cheap and abundant. Valve launched its Steam Summer sale last week and all the normal things happened: Red Dead Redemption 2 got a 75% discount for the 14th time since January 2025. The Witcher 3 got its fifth 95% discount since July 2024 (though it's been discounted 15 other times since then,...

As reported by Polygon, we now have a release window for the second season of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. We'll finally see more episodes of the explosively popular anime adaptation of Mike Pondsmith's tabletop setting and CD Projekt's 2020 RPG sometime this fall.I had to do a double take when I noticed it's been a whole year since Edgerunners season two was first announced, but Netflix has finally begun spinning up the...

Rivals of Aether 2 isn't the only Smash Bros.-esque fighting game on Steam, but it might just be the best—unlike the first game, though, it hasn't included any guest characters just yet. Even Shovel Knight, who appeared in the first Rivals of Aether game, was effectively succeeded by an alarmingly sexy shark man earlier this year (listen, I'm just reporting the facts). But next year, Yacht Club's newest retro-inspired icon,...

Mewgenics might be the hottest Edmund McMillen roguelike in town, but stone cold classic The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is no worse off. In fact, more abandoned children are fending off malformed horrors in their mother's basement than ever—the game reached a new all-time concurrent player count peak on Steam today.The new big number is a whopping 123,429. It's simmered down a bit as I write this, but it's still...

Disk Cleanup(Image credit: Future)Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend feature delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like "How tidy is your desktop?" and "What game will you never uninstall?"Sally Beaumont's earliest PC gaming memory is playing Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards on the family PC. "Which I should not...

Thief: The Dark Project is a brilliant game for many reasons, among which is that it has one of the best mapping communities of any game. While the Doom and Quake mapping scenes are larger and more prolific, Thief's mappers consistently punch so far above their weight they should probably get into boxing sims rather than stealth games. They regularly deliver maps, missions and entire campaigns that are orders of...

All eyes may currently be fixed upon Total War: Warhammer 40,000, Creative Assembly's ferociously ambitious foray into the 40k universe. But it's worth remembering that the more traditional side of Total War is looking pretty exciting too, as CA is returning to one of Total War's best settings in Medieval 3.Medieval 3 is much earlier in development than ol' Total Warty K, but the CA has been surprisingly open with...

PS1 mascot Spyro the Dragon has a surprisingly strong presence on PC these days. All three of the original games are available on Steam in remade form through the Spyro Reignited Trilogy. Developer Toys for Bob is also working on Spyro: A Realm Beyond, the first new Spyro game in almost 20 years.One thing you can't do, however, is play the original versions of the PS1 games on PC. At...