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RAM shortage hits Valve's four-year-old Steam Deck, now available "intermittently"
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (571+ words) Andrew is a Senior Technology Reporter at Ars Technica with a focus on consumer tech, including in-depth reviews and updates about operating systems like Windows and mac OS. He also covers improvements to computer components like processors and. .. Earlier this…...
Testing shows why the Steam Machine's 8 GB of graphics RAM could be a problem
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (633+ words) Valve has work to do on the software side'but some fixes are coming. By Valve's admission, its upcoming Steam Machine desktop isn't swinging for the fences with its graphical performance. The specs promise decent 1080p-to-1440p performance in most games, with…...
Figuring out why AIs get flummoxed by some games
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (452+ words) When winning depends on intuiting a mathematical function, AIs come up short. With its Alpha series of game-playing AIs, Google's Deep Mind group seemed to have found a way for its AIs to tackle any game, mastering games like chess…...
Games run faster on Steam OS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (333+ words) In my personal life, Windows is only useful for gaming and it seems like pretty soon I won't even need it for that. That was me too, until the Dune Awakening Beta. It uses Battle-Eye anticheat for the. .. Games run…...
AMD's $299 Radeon RX 9060 XT brings 8 GB or 16 GB of RAM to fight the RTX 5060
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (55+ words) somewhat baffled that the 8 gig version is aimed at 5060 whilst 16 gig at 5060ti. . the only difference is the vram, right? Click to expand. .. With the 5060ti having both 8 and 16 GB versions, that was. .. AMD's $299 Radeon RX 9060 XT brings 8 GB or 16 GB of…...
Review: At $349, AMD's 16 GB Radeon RX 9060 XT is the new midrange GPU to beat
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (944+ words) If that $349 price is real then it's a great deal; if it's not real, it depends. Now that most of Nvidia's Ge Force RTX 50-series graphics cards have been released, it's clear that they give AMD and Intel their best…...
Interplay co-founder and pioneering game developer Rebecca Heineman dies at 62
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (49+ words) So a renouned developer, where the Apogee founder directly knew her; but she died poor enough to not have enogh cash (or ins) to cover funeral expenses that she needed a Go Fund Me page? Or is that the. .. Interplay…...
Retro Rewind re-creates the glorious drudgery of working a '90s video store
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (228+ words) What the nostalgic throwback lacks in complexity it makes up for in repetitive charm. Developer: Blood Pact Studios Publisher: Blood Pact Studios Platform: Windows Release Date: March 17, 2026 ESRB Rating: N/A Price: $20 Links: Steam If you were working a retail…...
AMD's Ryzen 9 9950 X3 D2 Dual Edition crams 208 MB of cache into a single chip
2+ week, 5+ day ago (512+ words) Andrew is a Senior Technology Reporter at Ars Technica with a focus on consumer tech, including in-depth reviews and updates about operating systems like Windows and mac OS. He also covers improvements to computer components like processors and. .. For about…...
Google Project Genie lets you create interactive worlds from a photo or prompt
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (23+ words) Project Genie lets you generate new worlds 60 seconds at a time, but only if you pay for AI Ultra. See full article. .....