Steam Hardware Survey: June 2026 — Windows 11 Surges, AMD Gains on Steam
For years, PC gaming had a kind of comforting inertia to it. Windows 10 was the default, Intel kept a…
Esports Has 400 Million Gen Z Fans and a Business Model That Still Barely Works
A new esports study has arrived with a wonderfully large number attached to it. According to The Esports Generation: Who They…
Bolt Wants to Crash the GPU Competition and It’s Starting With Creators, Not Gamers
For a market that has spent years acting like “GPU competition” means choosing which Nvidia card you can’t afford this…
GTA VI’s Price Tag Is Official, and Rockstar Just Told the Entire Industry to Buckle Up
For months, everyone knew Grand Theft Auto VI was going to be expensive. The only real mystery was whether Rockstar would stop…
PC Gaming’s Quiet Rebellion: Direct-to-Consumer Sales Just Crushed the $1 Billion Mark
For years, the standard PC publishing playbook looked almost suspiciously settled. Put your game on a major storefront, accept the…
In-Game Ads Are Already Here. The Real Question Is How Weird the Industry Wants to Make Them
When people hear “ads in games,” they tend to imagine the worst version immediately: a boss fight paused by a…
The Physics of Time Travel: Wormholes, Paradoxes, and Black Holes
Time travel is one of humanity’s favorite bad ideas. We have spent decades imagining phone booths, modified DeLoreans, glowing portals,…
DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction Is Aiming at the Messiest Part of Ray Tracing
Nvidia has spent most of 2026 upgrading DLSS piece by piece, but the latest update may be the one graphics…
Bad Benchmarks, Big Demand: How Lisuan Tech Sold 30,000 GPUs Anyway
You would think a new graphics card needs killer benchmarks to make a splash. Apparently not. Chinese GPU startup Lisuan Tech has…
ASUS Just Launched Its First ROG DDR5 Memory Kit, and It Comes With a Built-In Personality Shift
ASUS has finally stepped into the memory market with something that feels very on-brand: flashy, expensive, a little dramatic, and…