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I'm finally switching to Windows 11, but not for the reason you think

Tis the season to upgrade to Windows 11, at least for around 40% of the Windows 10 holdouts. While support for Windows 10 ...

Valve's Steam Machine is "great news" for Microsoft because it means Xbox can just "make great games" and worry less about hardware, says former Blizzard exec: "All …

Hardware Former Xbox exec Major Nelson praises Valve's Steam Machine as "choice is always good," but doesn't think it should ...

Valve just built the Xbox that Microsoft is dreaming of

Valve has created a PC-based game console that lives under your TV. The Steam Machine takes everything that’s great about the ...

While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago

In many cases, Steam Machines were being pre-sold with Windows, because SteamOS just wasn't up to scratch. By the time Valve ...

Valve just quietly redefined what PC gaming can be all while an increasingly delusional Microsoft desperately tries to tell everyone their PC is an Xbox now

Valve has been loosening a desperate Microsoft's grip on PC gaming one gnarled finger at a time.

‘Windows sucks’: How the dev who created Task Manager would fix things

David Plummer, a veteran of Windows development, takes the OS to task in his latest YouTube video on how Microsoft could ...

5 Years After Launch, the Xbox Series X Is an Afterthought. So What’s Next?

Five years ago today, the Xbox Series X sought to reimagine what the term “Xbox” even was. Back then, the big, black, boxy ...
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Task Manager creator says Windows 11 has turned into a sales channel for all products

Task Manager creator says Windows 11 has crossed the line over to where the operating system feels like a sales channel.

Prepare your Steam library: The easiest Windows emulator just hit the Play Store

The easy-to-use Windows emulator GameHub just officially hit the Play Store, offering complete PC game emulation on Android without the fuss.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 launches on Game Pass alongside cozy indies — all the new Xbox games arriving this week (Nov. 10-16)

This week, one of the biggest games of the year finally arrives, with Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. This new title ...

Microsoft hires social media stars to challenge ChatGPT’s consumer dominance

Microsoft recruits major influencers including Alix Earle to promote Copilot to younger consumers, aiming to close the gap with ChatGPT’s dominance. Copilot has 150 million monthly active users versus ...