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The Steam Deck OLED's price hikes have killed its status as the best deal in PC games hardware

Ongoing memory chip shortages, caused by a proliferation of AI-huffing data centres, continue to make PC games hardware scarcer, less affordable, and generally miserable. The latest victim is the Steam Deck OLED, which returned to stock yesterday – and it’d be very nice to end the sentence there, but alas &...

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gaming

Valve's new-look Steam Workshop just made modding your games easier than ever

I'm a huge fan of the Steam Workshop. I've been PC gaming for long enough to know my way around using standalone launchers and installers, as well as the big third-party mod distribution sites. For sheer ease of use, however, it's impossible to beat just clicking a button on Steam and instantly adding new content to yo...

3 weeks ago 👁 12
gaming

Steam Deck prices just jumped up $300 and stock still sold out

Valve has just increased the Steam Deck price by as much as $300, making what has long been one of the lowest-cost and best-value gaming handhelds now more expensive than several more powerful alternatives. Despite what amounts to a 46% price increase, though, Steam Deck stock has already sold out again in some regions...

3 weeks ago 👁 9
gaming

Marathon season 2 is kicking off with a free week so new players can try Bungie's extraction shooter out on a 'clean slate'

Marathon's second season is just days away from kicking off, and amid all the changes and hype its devs are spreading the word that its first week will be free to play for those prospective players who've been too stingy to try it out so far (me). "Season 2 begins on June 2 and kicks off with an Open Play Week from Jun...

3 weeks ago 👁 7
gaming

Samsung workers to take home $340,000 on average thanks to union's vote to approve historic profit-share deal

Last week, Samsung narrowly swerved a planned South Korean factory strike with a last-minute deal. The workers' union had agreed to not go ahead with the strike planned to commence on May 21 as it put a fresh proposal to an internal vote.That vote has since taken place, with 74% of union members voting in favour of a p...

3 weeks ago 👁 10
gaming League of Legends

Who is the new League of Legends champion? Release date, leaks, and latest news

Locke is, perhaps, League of Legends' worst kept secret. The AP midlane assassin is set to release very, very soon, and while Riot has remained relatively tight-lipped about who champion 173 is, we've potentially seen flickers of him in recent lore videos. So here's a full roundup of everything we know about the new Le...

3 weeks ago 👁 18
gaming

Bungie details Marathon Season 2 and the new Sentinel class, with a free-to-play week and special sale planned, too

Right after dropping the untimely news Destiny 2 won't be getting more support after June, Bungie is ramping up work on Marathon, with Season 2 introducing a spooky new map and mysterious new threats next week. Read more

3 weeks ago 👁 9
gaming

Witcher 3 modders have already added Geralt's new sword from the Songs of the Past expansion to the base game

Yesterday, May 27th, CD Projekt finally held their hands up and revealed that the extra DLC long-rumoured to be coming to The Witcher 3 is indeed a thing. It's called Songs of the Past and will arrive in 2027, they said, also lobbing out some promo art of Gerry from the River holding a sword in front of a spooky tree b...

3 weeks ago 👁 10
gaming

Valve announces significant Steam Deck price rise of almost £200 in the UK, over 40% around the world

Valve has announced a substantial price increase for its Steam Deck OLED models, citing "rising memory and storage costs" as the reason. Read more

3 weeks ago 👁 10
mobile

On the podcast: Take-Two, Ubisoft, Monopoly Go and SciPlay news plus data and soft launch nuggets

  The mobilegamer.biz podcast is a concise, banter-free digest of what’s driving the mobile games business. Every week, mobilegamer.biz founder and editor Neil Long goes on a walk and tells you what’s going on in under 20 minutes. In this episode: We rattle through Take-Two’s financials, which as ever show mobile...

3 weeks ago 👁 11
gaming

10 Billion Pokémon Cards Were Printed Last Year And It Still Wasn’t Enough

The Pokémon Company can't keep up with insatiable demand

3 weeks ago 👁 9
gaming

A Retirement Home’s Wii Sports Bowling League Can’t Be Beaten

'Deborah cost me my parlay last week'

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