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Valve still 'hopes' to ship Steam Machines in 2026, but a delay into 2027 is starting to look like a real possibility: 'Memory and storage shortages have created challenges for us' As recently as February, Valve expected to have Steam Machines and other hardware released in the first half of the year, but that's no longer the case.

"We hope to ship in 2026, but as we shared recently, memory and storage shortages have created challenges for us," Valve wrote.

Marathon day one check-in: Thief impressions, broken Deluxe Edition bonuses, and so many Assassins Reporting in from Tau Ceti: Cosmetics missing. Players blasting. Backpack stuffed.

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The next Xbox is codenamed Project Helix, and it will 'play your Xbox and PC games' New Microsoft Gaming chief Asha Sharma says she's looking forward to talking more about the next Xbox console "with partners and studios" at GDC next week.

The next Xbox will "play your Xbox and PC games," says new Microsoft Gaming boss Asha Sharma.

Slay the Spire 2 is the #1 seller on Steam today, above Marathon and Resident Evil Requiem The roguelike deckbuilder sequel is an instant hit.

Slay the Spire 2 is out in early access, and it's the top seller on Steam.

800 gamers tried to beat an '80s adventure without a walkthrough—only 2 did Only .25% completed the AGAT: the Adventure Game Aptitude Test, designed by fiendish developer Woe Industries.

Designed by developer Woe Industries, the AGAT challenged players to complete an '80s adventure game without using a walkthrough.

After 6 hours, Crimson Desert is one of the most overwhelming, chaotic, madcap videogames I've ever played—and I'm hungry for more Pearl Abyss is engaging in a biblical act of design hubris, and it's somehow working out.

Crimson Desert is an unhinged tidal wave of mechanical complexity, systems, and rule-of-cool nonsense. (In a good way.)

After planning 2 more paid acts, narrative scifi power-washer Ambrosia Sky is instead finishing its story in one free update to 'maximize' its focus on what players loved: 'People got in on that sapph... So much for slow burn.

"I was expecting it to take longer for people to care about Maeve and Dalia's relationship," narrative director Kait Tremblay said. "But it did not. People got in on that sapphic yearning right away."

If Baldur's Gate 3 is the ultimate D&D sandbox, Esoteric Ebb is like a tabletop campaign with the best Dungeon Master ever Maybe the best RPG of 2026?

Esoteric Ebb is going to be hard to beat as the best RPG of 2026.

Highguard is closing next week: 'Despite the passion and hard work of our team, we have not been able to build a sustainable player base to support the game long term' With player numbers continuing to sag, this end was all but inevitable.

"Despite the passion and hard work of our team, we have not been able to build a sustainable player base to support the game long term," said the studio.

It's only March, but I'm calling it: Esoteric Ebb is 2026's best RPG and the first worthy successor to Disco Elysium It's more than D&D Disco Elysium, but it's also absolutely D&D Disco Elysium.

"Esoteric Ebb is everything I want from a CRPG."

Fallout: New Vegas remaster hopium goes off like Mount Vesuvius as Iron Galaxy teases 'what's coming next' with a very famous loading screen It might not mean anything, but it could mean something. One very specific thing.

Iron Galaxy's best-known recent work is probably Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4, but it's also worked on numerous game ports over the years including Fallout 76 and the VR versions of Skyrim and Fallout 4.

"I really wanted to make sure that I was capturing that and leaning into that slow, creeping tone that you really need to achieve."

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Modder Marczuk Michał showed off their "experimental" mod that adds spectral fellow players to your KCD2 experience.

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Renegade, mastered.

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Sony was ready to approve a Bloodborne remake, but FromSoftware turned it down The chances of it happening are now at their lowest.

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Markiplier: 'Hollywood was willfully ignoring the potential of YouTubers' Then his indie film Iron Lung made $50 million at the box office, with a budget of only $4 million.

"They see money, they can see the threat that's there, they see that if people can make this independently, that means less of the pie is available," said Markiplier. "And I think that's good. They need some competition. They need a kick in the ass."

Is Marathon's time-to-kill too fast, or am I too Arc Raiders-pilled? I'm finally embracing what Marathon is actually going for.

Is Marathon's time-to-kill too fast, or am I too Arc Raiders-pilled? www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/is...

If you love Marathon's vectorheart style but not its PvP, get your aesthetic fix from the gorgeously overstimulating demo for this time trial FPS instead Tear flesh from bone.

"You play as Fawn-A2, 'chosen for enlistment' as a Cicada combat unit 'due to unforeseen circumstances in your previous life' and tasked with (...) eliminating threats using a cybershotgun that may or may not be intelligent and may or may not be some kind of digital antichrist."

Steam Next Fest's top demos were packed with gnomeslop hijinks, open world piracy, and vampire card battling, but then—well—Marathon happened Oh, and cowboy robot wizards. Can't forget those.

There's a lot of variety in Steam Next Fest's top demos.

An AI-generated review of Resident Evil Requiem written by a fake 'iGaming and sports betting analyst' briefly hit Metacritic The site responsible laid off its real editorial staff only weeks ago.

A review of Resident Evil Requiem has been pulled from Metacritic after humans noticed it was AI-generated.

If you're hoping to make friends in Marathon like you can in Arc Raiders, expect a knife in the back In my experience, shoot first.

Reporting in from day one of the Marathon server slam: people be blastin' www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/if...

Avalanche Studios co-founder says the studio got too big and 'numbers focused,' so he quit and made a $25 open world crime brawler "We're not here to create funky business models, we're here to create great games," says Christofer Sundberg of his new studio and game, Samson.

"It went from focusing on creating great games to creating great spreadsheets," said Christofer Sundberg about Avalanche Studios, the Just Cause developer he co-founded. Sundberg is now preparing to release Samson with his new, smaller studio, Liquid Swords.

Project Windless creative director says the developers chose a 9-foot warlike rooster goliath as their protagonist because literally 'every candidate' interviewed to work on the game wanted to play as... Hard to argue with that.

"When I asked—on behalf of anyone who might have experienced some kind of internal awakening after watching the reveal trailer—whether Project Windless' hero could engage in romance, Méthé said he "wouldn't confirm or deny.'"

Stardew Valley will add Clint and Sandy as marriage candidates in its 1.7 update Creator Eric Barone made the reveal during Stardew Valley's 10th Anniversary Retrospective.

Seeing a lot of "Clint?!?!" and starting to feel kind of bad for Clint. Should we give Clint a chance?

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Resident Evil Requiem marries puzzles, action, and horror together in one excellent virus-riddled game.

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Micron just explained how important memory is for gamers, a mere two months after it stopped making memory for gamers GPU memory is the new performance bottleneck, but how much GDDR7 will Micron actually be making?

"So, it's all very well for a memory company to point out the benefits of more memory for gaming. Those are real enough. It's just lands so very awkwardly when the same company has performed a dramatic pivot away from making memory products for, you know, gamers."

My new indie darling is this crafting game with hand-sculpted creatures OddFauna's handmade critters are absolute catnip for my crafting game brain.

OddFauna demo is good. Hand-sculpted game characters are so stinkin cool. Look at my biggo goofy whale house boy.

Resident Evil Requiem review In with the new and the old.

"Resident Evil Requiem sets itself out with a hard task: wrapping all the best elements of previous Resident Evil games into one. Miraculously it succeeds..."

All the aura was invested in the mask and tattoos 😎

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