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Stumbling upon an excellent gaming PC deal during the DRAM shortage is a distant dream, but there are moments when buyers truly strike gold, and the strangest thing about these occasions is that they happen when you least expect them to. A customer heading into a Costco outlet was shopping for toilet paper when he came…

PC gaming has long been a platform of ultimate freedom. Unlike consoles, where hardware choices are few, operating systems and ecosystems are closed, and graphics are hamstrung, a PC lets you play games on any operating system, from any storefront — including emulated ones — with a powerhouse of a machine at the highest graphic…

Earlier this week, South of Midnight developer Compulsion Games shared word that they now own all of the publishing rights to their games, a welcome update in light of the ongoing BDS boycott against Microsoft and Xbox. And now, another studio is joining the realm of boycott freedom, this time Psychonauts studio Double Fine, as…

There is a rather optimistic argument doing the rounds about Sony’s decision to kill physical PlayStation game discs: maybe digital games will finally become cheaper. Former Square Enix business development director Jacob Navok argues that removing manufacturing and distribution costs, combined with greater competition between publishers, could push digital prices down and create a Steam-like…