Valve is making a play for living rooms again with its new Steam Machine hardware, and the company believes that the compact gaming PC could be equal to or better than what "70%" of people have at home currently. In a new interview, Valve engineer Yazan Aldehayyat explained that the Steam Machine is designed to be both a powerful and entry-level gaming device, capable of running most of the games in your Steam library at high performance levels.
"As you know, we definitely learned a lot...
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GameStop "Trade Anything Day" Is Coming Up Soon, Doesn't Accept (Most) Dead Animals Or Illegal Drugs
Retailer GameStop has announced a "Trade Anything Day," and as part of this, people can visit a store and trade anything. Well, not quite anything. There is a list of items that GameStop will not accept, including dead animals and illegal drugs.
The fine print for the December 6 event states that people can only bring in for trade items that fit into GameStop's own 20x20x20 box and that employees have discretion to reject any item.
In terms of the specific exclusions, GameStop said people...
Earlier this month, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 players called out the apparent use of AI in the game, especially the "Ghibli-style" Calling Cards. Activision subsequently acknowledged that some AI was used in the creation of Black Ops 7, but it insisted that the creative process is still in the hands of humans. Regardless, a US Congressman has weighed in on the Black Ops 7 debate and called for extensive AI regulations.
California Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna--who has previously accused...
Embark Studios' brand-new extraction shooter Arc Raiders hit a new peak player count on Steam over the weekend, seeing 481,966 raiders online at the same time. As Arc Raiders was breaking its own concurrent player record, Black Ops 7's launch weekend saw lower than usual player counts for a Call of Duty Steam launch, suggesting the competition may be impacting CoD's success on Steam.
Black Ops 7, the latest mainline Call of Duty game, hit a launch weekend peak of 100,332 players on Steam...
Amazon's Black Friday 2025 sale doesn't officially begin until November 20, but the online retailer is offering some stellar early video game deals for PS5, Xbox Series X, and Nintendo Switch 1/2. One of the most notable early discounts is Borderlands 4. Launched in September with a $70 retail price, Gearbox's long-awaited looter-shooter is up for grabs for $48 on PS5 and Xbox Series X.
Black Friday deals on games that aren't out yet are uncommon, but Amazon is also offering a big discount...
Fortnite fans will want to check out Amazon's early Black Friday deal on Lego's Peely Bone building set before it disappears. Normally $100, Lego Fortnite: Peely Bone is available for only $80 at Amazon and Target. Not only is the 1,414-piece half-skeleton, half-banana on sale for its lowest price yet, but Lego is retiring this set soon. Peely Bone has largely held its MSRP since launching more than a year ago, so it's nice that Fortnite fans have the opportunity to grab it for less before...
Ahead of Red Dead Redemption's Nintendo Switch 2 update next month, Amazon is offering a discount on the recently rereleased physical edition for Switch. Rockstar Games distributed a new budget-friendly $30 edition in September, and now you can grab a copy of Red Dead Redemption for $25 during Amazon's early Black Friday video game sale.
Red Dead Redemption's physical edition for Switch includes the full game and Undead Nightmare expansion on the cartridge. The Switch 2 update will be...
As part of Amazon's Black Friday deals this year, you can get multiple physical versions of Hello Kitty Island Adventure at new discounted prices. Both the PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch versions of the game are currently down to $25, saving you $15 off the original price of $40. Then there's the Nintendo Switch-exclusive Hello Kitty Island Adventure Gift Box, now available for $50 (was $16), a welcome deal considering it was just released earlier this month. This version includes the...
Amazon's Black Friday deals continue to drop early. Physical versions of EA Sports FC 26 are available at a nice discount after only having just launched a few months ago. The PS4, PS5, Switch, and Switch 2 versions of the game are all currently down to $35. The Switch version is usually listed for $60, while the other three are typically $70. You'll notice that Xbox versions of the game are absent from this list, as they aren't included in the Black Friday sales for the time being. While...
Two of the coolest things in life are Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the critically acclaimed video game Hades. So what happens when you merge the two? You get Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate, a fun Hades-like game that also happens to be on sale for Black Friday this year. Normally $40 for this Deluxe Edition, you can get this for $25 and raise some shell with your friends as you take on the Foot Clan and Shredder across the sewers of New York City.
"It’s easy to reduce...
You can get Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Day One Edition for a small discount thanks to this early Black Friday deal at Amazon. The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X versions are both currently $40, saving you $10 off the game's original $50 price. This is the lowest price we've seen for the game, making it a good deal for a title that's only a few months old. After you've checked out the Wuchang deal below, be sure to hit up GameSpot's Black Friday hub for even more savings on video games, toys...
As part of Amazon's Black Friday deals, you can get all 6 of the original Tomb Raider Remastered games at steep discounts thanks to deals on the recent Tomb Raider Remastered collections. The series is divided into two separate collections, each offered in impressive Deluxe Editions and standard editions. Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Deluxe Edition for PS5 is currently $30 (was $40), while Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered Deluxe Edition is available on both PS5 and Switch for $30 (was $50). You...
Earlier this week, Embark Studios debuted Arc Raiders' first major update, North Line. It includes a new map called Stella Montis, which was locked behind a community event that had to be finished first. However, Arc Raiders players didn't waste any time and unlocked Stella Montis in under 38 hours.
To reach Stella Montis--a map located in the "cold pristine" part of the Rust Belt, players had to donate a sizable amount of resources to tunnel through to that location. On Discord, Embark...
Arc Raiders occasionally sends you topside to fix something and expects you to bring your own items to do so. One such quest is After Rain Comes, which tasks you with repairing some solar panels in Buried City. The last thing you'll want to do is show up to fix them and not have what you need, so we're here to help.
You will need 2 Batteries and 5 Wires to complete After Rain Comes. You'll want to place these items in safe pockets if at all possible, as you wouldn't want to lose them due to...
The Unexpected Initiative quest in Arc Raiders sends you to the Buried City map in search of Fertilizer and a Water Pump. You'll need to visit two separate--though thankfully close by--locations to interact with and loot these items, so you may be here wanting to know precisely where. You're in luck because we're going to fill you in.
Note that the game will provide both Fertilizer and a Water Pump to you as part of this quest, but you can also find these in other places and turn them in...
I've been an Arknights: Endfield fan since the first global technical test in January 2024. Its art style that blended anime with realism and similarities with RPGs I enjoyed like Genshin Impact convinced me to try it. In the process, I found an intriguing world with a layered combat system and building mechanics that set it apart from competitors. Now, with the game's latest build, developer Hypergryph has reforged and polished those systems to feel even snappier and more accessible than...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is live now, and the game is packaged with a cooperative story and a new Endgame mode, which serves as an open-world epilogue to the campaign. Activision gave GameSpot a very brief teaser of Season 1 content coming to Black Ops 7's campaign endgame. This includes a limited-time mode for Endgame, and while we don't have any major details, we can say some very massive fights will be taking place across the campaign's Avalon map.
We weren't able to capture the footage...
Ubisoft was working on a new Splinter Cell game that was going to embrace games-as-a-service before it shifted to become XDefiant, a game that the publisher shut down not long after release. This is according to Nick Herman, a developer who worked on the game before leaving to start AdHoc Studios, the team that just launched the episodic game Dispatch to great success.
"I was so excited to be a part of this and help revitalize it, because it's been dormant for a while," Herman said told...
The story of Concord is a cautionary tale in the age of live-service games. Years of development and millions of dollars went into the game, only for it to fail at launch and get canceled by Sony weeks later. However, Conord had some fans, and a trio of them worked very hard to bring the game back to life on a server.
As reported by The Game Post, Concord's partial resurrection is due to reverse engineering by a user called Red, a rebuild of the game's backend API by open_wizard, and an...
Epic Games is gearing up for its biggest shake-up to Fortnite Creative since the introduction of the Unreal Editor for Fortnite. Soon, Epic will allow developers who use UEFN to make Fortnite Creative modes, or "islands," to sell in-game items using V-Bucks, the game's real-money currency.
The news, which Epic announced during the Veteran's Day holiday in the US, was not met with much excitement from fans. The way the Fortnite Creative ecosystem is currently crammed with clones of tycoon...