Steam Deck sells out in North America within 24 hours of price hike
… Kyle Orland has been the Senior Gaming Editor at Ars Technica since 2012, writing primarily about the business, tech, and culture behind video games. …
Search
Pirates are already playing Forza Horizon 6 days before its launch
… In March, an unencrypted copy of Death Stranding 2 was similarly uploaded to Steam days before the game’s PC release, leading almost immediately to its availability on piracy sites . …
A respectable port of Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition invades macOS
… Granted, many people who have played this game over the years have never touched multiplayer and therefore won’t care, but some of the game’s most hardcore fans will feel that makes this port a non-starter. …
Nvidia kills Windows XP-era Control Panel "after 20 years of dedicated service"
… That’s ending with version 610.47 of Nvidia’s Game Ready and Studio drivers for GeForce GPUs. …
Say hi to "Siri AI"—Apple announces new, more "conversational" voice assistant
… Kyle Orland has been the Senior Gaming Editor at Ars Technica since 2012, writing primarily about the business, tech, and culture behind video games. …
Plex's 200% Lifetime Pass price hike tries forcing users to another subscription
…Eventually, lifetime passes were available for $120 for years until March 2025, when the price skyrocketed to $250 . That brings us to today’s announcement. In an email and blog post to…
FBI says Google engineer used internal search data to win $1.2M on Polymarket
… Spagnuolo’s bets included $937,688 on the “No” side of “Will Bianca Censori be the 1 searched person on Google this year?”; $613,587 on the “No” side of “Will Pope Leo XIV be the 1 searched person on Google this year?”; $509,149 on the “No” side of “Will Donald Trump be the 1 searched person on Goo… …
Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents can now "dream," sort of
… He also is an independent software and game developer for iOS, Windows, and other platforms, and he is a graduate of DePaul University, where he studied interactive media and software development.
Valve kills its retail gift card program due to scammers
… When Steam was announced in 2002 , Valve’s Gabe Newell sold it as a way to get around those annoying retailers altogether, “eliminating the overhead of physical goods distribution” and “leverag ing the efficiency of broadband to improve customer service and increase operating margins.” Over two dec… …
Intel makes a bid for handheld gaming PCs with new Arc G3 processors
… Intel says that several Arc G-series handhelds will arrive “starting in June 2026, with broader availability throughout the year.” These systems will include a new MSI Claw model, a Predator Atlas 8 from Acer, and a device from OneXPlayer . …