Steam Machines starts at $1049/€1039 and is barely able to run high-end games. Basically, no RT, mostly 1080p — not what a living room gamer would prefer in mid 2026. Some games are deliberately targeting RT only on PC and cutting yourself out is a sad choice.
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine
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https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine
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Steam Machines starts at $1049/€1039 and is barely able to run high-end games. Basically, no RT, mostly 1080p — not what a living room gamer would prefer in mid 2026. Some games are deliberately targeting RT only on PC and cutting yourself out is a sad choice.…
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Sounds good to me
23%
Kinda doubtful about it
48%
Overpriced and underperforms
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What the hell is this?!
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Battlefield Hardline is going dark. That's not "Stop Killing Games" kinda, since the playerbase was already dead 6 months after the release (way over a decade ago). And they are only shutting it down on consoles.
I liked the main new mode where flags are cars and to hold them you have to move fast. And they are destructible. But on PC there were like two working servers and they only worked with premium edition. Ain't gonna buy an upgrade for a dead game.
#Battlefield@GameDEV
I liked the main new mode where flags are cars and to hold them you have to move fast. And they are destructible. But on PC there were like two working servers and they only worked with premium edition. Ain't gonna buy an upgrade for a dead game.
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Steam Machines starts at $1049/€1039 and is barely able to run high-end games. Basically, no RT, mostly 1080p — not what a living room gamer would prefer in mid 2026. Some games are deliberately targeting RT only on PC and cutting yourself out is a sad choice.…
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AMD just released a new driver without Windows 10 support and without a warning about this incompatibility. Adrenalin Edition 26.6.2 removes your current driver, then can't install the new one and leaves your system in a broken state. It's the driver that was supposed to bring FSR 4.1 to older cards.
AMD have tried to pretend Windows 10 is no longer supported at all. When it was pointed out that it is updated for all users in Europe and for commercial partners, they gave up. The fix is coming later and as of now you can disable the update and install the previous version.
NVIDIA messed up the same way a bit earlier which makes it twice funnier.
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AMD have tried to pretend Windows 10 is no longer supported at all. When it was pointed out that it is updated for all users in Europe and for commercial partners, they gave up. The fix is coming later and as of now you can disable the update and install the previous version.
NVIDIA messed up the same way a bit earlier which makes it twice funnier.
#AMD@GameDEV
#Hardware@GameDEV
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Kids will never believe it but that was IT in the 90s — two billionaires doing a parody on a parody!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY2j_GPIqRA
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY2j_GPIqRA
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Bill Gates & Steve Ballmer Night at the Roxbury theme
One of the Spoof videos done at many Microsoft conferences.
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Blood of the Dawnwalker RPG developers just announced that RX580 and GTX1060 are now their minimum system requirements.
I haven't heard these names in a while. But what they forgot to say is which target resolution are we talking about, which FPS, and such.
The image is obviously handcrafted but sepia makes it look like AI. Can't stop seeing this.
I haven't heard these names in a while. But what they forgot to say is which target resolution are we talking about, which FPS, and such.
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OK, Godot Engine intensifies! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1LNorfPlNc #GodotEngine@GameDEV #Battlefield@GameDEV
Since Battlefield Portal is made with Godot Engine, they decided to become a platinum sponsor and support the development.
What a time to be alive!
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What a time to be alive!
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Stupid tech takes: Valve said Linus that they can't subsidize the device in any way since they can't guarantee that users will stay on Steam OS and/or buy games...
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All three localisation requests for the new FABLE, previously removed from Microsoft feedback portal, were silently restored.
All of them were gaining huge amounts of upvotes and mostly positive comments. But also the proportional volume of reports which may triggered the automated protection that only works with certain absolute number without a context.
#XBOX@GameDEV
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All of them were gaining huge amounts of upvotes and mostly positive comments. But also the proportional volume of reports which may triggered the automated protection that only works with certain absolute number without a context.
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In the meantime, collectors edition of the game is sold out. Fable may become a huge success despite all the controversies.
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The studio behind Memories in Orbit is shutting down. Douze Dixièmes got independent from Focus Entertainment and then failed to gather any funding.
MiO was considered a commercial failure by Focus which leaves me speechless — what were their expectations then?
#LayOffs@GameDEV
MiO was considered a commercial failure by Focus which leaves me speechless — what were their expectations then?
#LayOffs@GameDEV
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This legend made a GPU cooling out of an ice maker:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHlZG8Nt-v8
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#DIY@GameDEV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHlZG8Nt-v8
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An Ice Machine Shouldn’t Cool a GPU. I Did It Anyway.
I took a countertop ice machine, bypassed its normal cycle, turned the ice bucket into a tiny reservoir, and used it to cool an RTX 3060.
Stock, it was basically just a bucket of water.
Modified, it somehow became a cursed little GPU chiller.
The RTX 3060…
Stock, it was basically just a bucket of water.
Modified, it somehow became a cursed little GPU chiller.
The RTX 3060…
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