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Geoff Keighley opened yesterday’s Gamescom Opening Night Live by acknowledging pricing issues within the industry and just how expensive it is to enjoy gaming these days.

Sony is still reeling from the fallout of axing physical games, with angry PlayStation players sticking to their word and powering forward with a PS5 blackout. While this was originally only supposed to cover a week, the once-loyal fandom has now vowed to extend it indefinitely.

The emails landed in waves between August 18 and 22, subject line: “PlayStation Terms – Copy for Your Records.” Routine compliance communication, Sony might say. Spectacularly timed corporate self-own, say the thousands of PlayStation owners already organizing #PSBlackout — a week-long protest running August 23–30 in response to Sony’s plan to end physical disc production…

TL;DR: PlayStation fans have launched a week-long #PSBlackout from August 23-30, urging users to power off consoles and avoid Sony platforms to protest the end of physical disc production in January 2028; organizers hope to reduce active user counts, though timing, reach, and impact are uncertain and Sony has not responded. Voice: Hassam NasirSpeed 0:00…

📅 August 21, 2026  •  👤 Ibrahim IBK  •  📁 All Sports  •  🕑 7 min read

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The editorial team at Poker Guru has been following the recent warnings about rising GPU and monitor costs from PC Partner Group and major display manufacturers, which are drawing attention among Lithuania’s gaming community. As hardware becomes more expensive in the second half of 2026, budget-conscious PC gamers may find themselves reconsidering how much they…

If you read a lot of gaming news – or work with it, like I do – you cannot help but become a little cynical sometimes. 2026 has been a brutal year for the industry, following an equally galling 2025. Beset by layoffs, harried by studio closures, and somehow staring down the barrel of the…

Software emulators are one of the cheapest ways to still enjoy retro games. These are basically applications that abstract the hardware capabilities of a different piece of hardware — usually a gaming console — letting its apps run on a modern PC. Of course, this kind of abstraction involves a performance cost, making the games…

Gamers have found a novel way to build their own custom Steam Machines: Repurposed crypto-mining hardware based on the PS5 APU. The BC-250 board includes everything you need to get a gaming system up and running, and with SteamOS and a few tweaks, you can get Steam-Machine-like performance for a lot less, as Tom’s Hardware…