Gaming

Ubisoft investors push for company sale as shares hit decade-low

Recap: To say that Ubisoft isn't having a good time right now would be an understatement. The French studio is reeling from the comparative failure of Star Wars Outlaws – a game it expected to be smash hit – and as a result has just delayed the release of Assassin's Creed Shadows by three months. The firm's shares are at a 10-year low, and investors are pushing the company to sell itself.

This 15-pound laptop packs a desktop RTX 4090 and a Ryzen 9 7950X3D

WTF?! Flagship gaming laptops are expected to balance portability with high-end performance, usually with acceptable compromises compared to desktops. Throwing that idea out the window, one modder has responded to criticism of Nvidia's mobile RTX 4090 by installing the full desktop GPU into a "notebook" that, surprisingly, still fits in a backpack.

No quantum computer is powerful enough to run this quantum Doom port

Valve is pouring money into Arch Linux to further improve Steam gaming

Razer launches Freyja gaming cushion with multi-directional haptics for extreme immersion

Retro revival: Atari Jaguar console reborn as an iPhone emulation app

Nvidia RTX 5080 might have a 24GB variant, RTX 5090 set to offer DisplayPort 2.1a

Nvidia RTX 5090 reportedly has 32GB of RAM on a 512-bit bus

Rumor mill: The rumored specifications of Nvidia's upcoming next-generation flagship graphics card have shifted back and forth over the last several months. However, the latest report from a verified leaker suggests that it will feature more memory than prior estimates. The new performance king might also draw unprecedented wattages.

PC gaming fan Steven Spielberg says he "can't do controllers," prefers keyboard and mouse

Intel Battlemage desktop GPU hits Geekbench with 12GB of VRAM, 2,850 MHz boost

Sony's throwback PS5 Pro limited edition takes us back to the 90s (Update: and it's gone...)

Ubisoft delays Assassin's Creed Shadows to 2025 following Star Wars Outlaws' poor reception

"Nintendo would rather go in a different direction," says Shigeru Miyamoto about AI

New "AI" light gun brings Time Crisis to modern TVs

Monster Hunter Wilds recommends frame generation to reach 60fps at 1080p, requires 140 GB storage

Nvidia's RTX 5090 might feature two 16-pin power connectors, requiring a new PSU

Rumor mill: Recent reports have sparked concern that Nvidia's upcoming series of graphics cards might consume significantly more power than the RTX 4000 series. A breakdown of MSI's latest power supplies has fueled speculation that Nvidia's new flagship might handle the extra load with two power connectors.

Actors' union strikes against League of Legends in voiceover dispute

Intel has lost all of its dedicated GPU market share

Stardew Valley creator says he treats PC updates like a "beta test"

Modders negate God of War Ragnarök PSN requirement after a brief review bombing

Leaked Nintendo Switch 2 chassis "almost certainly real," analysts say

Steam keeps breaking concurrent-user records as new games arrive

What just happened? There's been a slew of great new titles landing on Steam recently, and that's good news not only for gamers, but also for Valve. The platform has broken its concurrent user record four times over the last month, peaking yesterday when 38,367,277 people were logged into Steam simultaneously.

Half-Life beta build from 1998 is uncovered in dusty storage unit

Valve appears to be testing ARM64 and Android gaming support for Steam on Linux