Star Citizen has crossed the $1 billion crowdfunding mark on Roberts Space Industries’ official funding page. The r/Games thread focused less on celebration and more on the project’s 13-year development span, live alpha state, and the gap between funding scale and final release.
A new Vanguard update has rendered DMA cheat hardware permanently inoperable for Valorant cheaters. Riot clarified that regular PCs are completely unaffected — only dedicated cheat devices that use DMA firmware are targeted.
Unknown Worlds acknowledges that Subnautica 2's no-killing philosophy will frustrate some players but says it remains a fundamental design constraint with no plans to change.
A Tom's Hardware survey reveals 60% of PC gamers won't build a new system in the next two years, as AI infrastructure demand has caused RAM prices to triple and GPU costs to surge significantly.
Valve has opened a reservation system for the new Steam Controller starting May 8, 2026. Drawing on lessons from the Steam Deck's chaotic launch, Valve will fulfill orders sequentially — starting with US and Canada next week, followed by UK, EU, and Australia.
GTA 6 will launch exclusively on consoles on November 19, 2026. Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick confirmed no PC version at launch, citing Rockstar's longstanding console-first approach.
Early Access pirate game Windrose was generating up to 130,000 SSD write operations per second without players' knowledge. Developer Kraken Express patched the issue on April 30, reducing writes to 20-30 per second.
Valve's latest Steam hardware and software survey reveals that nearly 68% of Steam users are running Windows 11, marking a significant shift from just a couple of years ago when Windows 10 dominated the PC gaming landscape.
Digital Foundry's year-later review confirms that Oblivion Remastered remains plagued by persistent stutters, frame-time instability, and crashes on PC. Bethesda hasn't released a single patch since July 2025, leaving 2.5 million Steam owners with a technically troubled game.
Denuvo parent Irdeto says updated security versions are in development after hypervisor-based bypasses spread across single-player PC releases. Reports also say NBA 2K25, NBA 2K26, and Marvel's Midnight Suns now trigger a fresh online DRM check every 14 days.
Windows Central reports that Microsoft’s internal Windows K2 effort is using SteamOS as a gaming benchmark. The goal is to make Windows 11 competitive on identical hardware within the next year or two, starting with changes due in coming months.
Valve says Steam Deck 2 remains in development, but there is still no release window. The company also says RAM and shipping constraints are still limiting Steam Deck supply in some regions.