2+ hour, 48+ min ago  (264+ words) Valve says it's using a randomized purchase queue to make the experience "less frustrating and more fair." The Steam Machine is almost here. Valve chose possibly the worst time to announce new PC gaming hardware in late 2025, just as the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (282+ words) The repurposing of Pok'mon Go data for AI training continues to draw scrutiny. "Ground scans were one component to help train Niantic Spatial's real-world foundation models "AI systems that learn to recognize and interpret physical spaces," a Niantic Spatial spokesperson…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (200+ words) Latency, bandwidth, and fidelity all matter when you're chasing milliseconds. For one thing, latency. "And what we do in a driving simulator is obviously to take away the car entirely and to bring in our system, and we need it…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (307+ words) Ars Technica Just 100 days ago, when new Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma replaced long-serving executive Phil Spencer, she said she'd work to "understand what makes [Xbox] work and protect it." Now, Sharma and Xbox Studios chief Matt Booty have laid…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (394+ words) Move also cuts off a massive market of legit users who buy cards with physical cash. For years, Valve's physical Steam gift cards have been the closest you could come to buying a Steam game at a brick-and-mortar store. Now,…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (439+ words) The superior RX 9070 also launched for $549 just over a year ago. At some point during the fog of 2021 or 2022, I noticed that my son's preferred brand of fruit snacks had switched from including 0. 9 ounces per pouch to 0. 8 ounces per pouch....

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (222+ words) One hardware announcement and several software highlights from Microsoft Build. On the hardware front, we didn't get any updates for existing Surface devices (not counting yesterday's Surface Laptop Ultra announcement), but we did get something new: the Surface RTX Spark…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (360+ words) Here at Ars, we've taken pleasure in reporting on versions of Doom that run on everything from wireless earbuds and printers to Windows' notepad. exe and even inside Doom itself. So when we hear that a piece of game-playing hardware…...

3+ week, 5+ hour ago  (275+ words) But the hardware refresh is tethered to a bundle with pricey AR glasses. Press outlets that got early hands-on time with the X20 reported a few other incidental upgrades, such as quieter, more rounded face buttons and better-feeling rubberized grips on…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (564+ words) Ars Technica Most of the Steam Deck imitators on the market right now use AMD silicon, specifically the Ryzen Z-series chips. These are the same chips AMD makes for regular laptops, but with different power settings better suited to a…...