$1,799. Eeeeeeesh.

Anime, friendslop and relaxed offroading are the highlights, but seriously Valve: give us an AI filter.

Now that's some prime YouTube fodder.

If you signed up for a spot in the Steam Machine reservation queue, you might want to take a quick look at your email, because the notices for those who made it into the first wave—and those who did not—have been sent.I did not personally order a Steam Machine for several reasons, which in truth can be boiled down to one reason:Yowzah! (Image credit: Valve)Instead, I heard about the email...

Six years ago, PC Gamer's Evan Lahti wrote a headline that captured the feeling of the moment, when PlayStation announced it would be bringing more of its exclusive games to Steam: Well, I guess we won the console war.The walls between platforms had crumbled. Everything but Nintendo was or would soon be playable on PC. Steam, not Xbox Live or PSN, was the kingmaker for new indie games, and the...

The latest mass layoff at Xbox will see roughly 3,200 people lose their jobs—1,600 today, and 1,600 more over the next fiscal year—and four game studios turned loose into the forest: Compulsion and Double Fine as independents, Ninja Theory and Undead Labs under new ownership. It's bad no matter how you look at it, a reflection of flailing leadership at Microsoft and a dreadful state of affairs for the game...

Developer Mateo Covic, who went viral for complaining that thousands of people had refunded his game after finishing it in less than two hours, says he's not actually unhappy about the number of refunds or money he lost, or even Steam's policy in general—he was merely expressing frustration with players who "bragged about having a fun time with the game and refunding it after completion."Covic is the solo dev of...

GOG is very good at two things: Bringing old games to modern PCs, and telling everyone that its games are DRM-free so you can do whatever you want with them. So I was not terribly shocked when GOG weighed in on Sony's decision to stop producing game discs in 2028 with a little note reminding its followers on X that they can just DIY this stuff if they want."Download the...

I'd completely forgotten Valve is working on an update for Team Fortress 2's cooperative Mann vs. Machine mode, though in my defence, it's been a long time since we last heard about it. The prospective patch was announced in June last year, via a blog post on TF2's official website that requested map and mission submissions from the community in time for this update—with a "fictional deadline" of August 27.After...

As we descend ever further into an AI-fueled dystopia, one question about our future becomes ever more pressing: When the internet is dominated by machines, who's going to be around to continue its long-standing tradition of fetishizing Japanese culture and mediaWell, there's no reason to worry, because it turns out the AIs are weebs, too. According to a white paper published back in April, experiments indicated that—when asked open-ended questions...