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Hardware and Technologies Yesterday, 05:10 PMIntel said that Nova Lake will reach desktop platforms before it arrives in the data center. The message came from Robert Hallock, Intel vice president and general manager of the enthusiast channel business, who said the company is taking its roadmap very seriously.
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Gaming News August 14, 2026, 09:26 PMStudio Wildcard says Nintendo Switch owners will lose official multiplayer access for Ark: Survival Evolved and Ark: Ultimate Survivor Edition on August 31, 2026, but the game will remain available on the platform.
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Gaming News August 14, 2026, 09:54 AMJohn "Bucky" Buckley says many crossover pitches for Palworld were rejected or scrapped because they did not fit the game.
Buckley said he understands why some players would prefer a more lore-first approach, but added that Pocketpair has been very open about its fun-first approach since day one. In the same message, he called the Terraria collaboration in Palworld pretty great. -
Hardware and Technologies August 12, 2026, 11:53 AMWith an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse attached, modder ntsow turned a ZTE Nubia Z70 Ultra into a makeshift PC and ran The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt at 1080p with Ultra settings.
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Gaming News August 11, 2026, 11:08 AMA six-month experiment with 49 students found that time spent on Dota 2 and Counter-Strike 2 was linked to gains in visual attention, with the participants also logging about 120 hours across shooters and MOBA games. After that period, the students were faster at spotting relevant objects amid extra visual information. They also handled multiple areas of the screen more effectively at the same time and filtered out unnecessary visual signals with more precision.
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Gaming News August 9, 2026, 12:00 PM**Steam has a page that collects every current free deal the store has to offer all in one place — permanent giveaways and temporary free access to paid games alike. It's just an ordinary catalog search with the right filters applied; most people simply never think to combine them that way. Worth bookmarking: the link updates itself automatically, so checking for new deals takes one click, no waiting for news posts.**
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Gaming News August 9, 2026, 10:32 AMSlant's browser port lets Portal 2 run directly in a web browser, and the classic Valve puzzle game is available without third-party launchers, cloud services, or a full game download. The project went live on August 8.
Built on Emscripten, WebGL, and WebAssembly, the port uses a separate canvas for 3D rendering so it behaves like a full web app rather than a simple page with embedded video. The result is a version of Portal 2 that launches in-browser and keeps the original feel intact. -
Gaming News August 8, 2026, 03:50 PMBlackIceLA showed a Decky Links plugin for Steam Deck in action, turning ordinary storage media into a physical shortcut for launching games. Instead of opening a digital library entry, the Deck reads a stored link and starts the matching game from its internal storage or a memory card.
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Gaming News August 8, 2026, 01:24 AMMark Darrah, who worked on the original Baldur's Gate, said on the FRVR podcast that Baldur's Gate 3 was the right kind of sequel for the series. He argued that Larian Studios made the smart choice by updating the formula instead of trying to recreate the classics beat for beat.
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Hardware and Technologies August 7, 2026, 05:06 PMA new community tool is letting owners of NVIDIA's CMP 170HX mining cards experiment with AI workloads, but the unlock only works reliably on some boards and comes with a few hard limits. The tool was published on GitHub by amoghmunikote, and it is said to restore full SM compute throughput and unlocked HBM2e memory geometry.
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