Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced that Microsoft’s gaming division will cut 3,200 jobs throughout FY27 and is spinning out studios but not canceling any games.
A new open-source app called Sony Head Tracker, developed by Nicholas Slattery, reads raw sensor data from Sony headphones and earbuds and converts them into something OpenTrack can understand. From there, it can be used for head tracking in over 200 PC games.
Valve’s Pierre-Loup Griffais and Yazan Aldehayyat talked to Tom’s Hardware about the Steam Machine, it’s pricing, engineering, and even Windows support.
A German effort to assemble the world’s largest publicly accessible video game archive is being wound down after roughly €1.5 million in public funding expired.
Meanwhile, the largest petition against the disc cutoff sat beyond 74,000 signatures on the morning of July 4th, closing in on its 75,000 goal.
An unofficial browser port of Half-Life 2 has popped up online, allowing you to play the original campaign without downloading anything. Developed in just three months by Slqnt and 98006, it even features Source console integration for cheats.
This website lets you “buy” all the Steam games you want without spending anything at all. It was primarily made for the dopamine hit, but the Achievements page is quite engaging, too.
An enthusiast is DIYing his own Steam Machine through ancient, lost methods known as cables that turn his existing PC into the perfect couch gaming setup. As expected, the Steam Controller 2 is also involved, alongside Bazzite.
Sony successfully built a PlayStation 1 console that fit inside a controller but had to cancel the project after game studios were unhappy with the royalties they would make from the project.
A Redditor experience the deadly “Red Line of Death” on their Steam Machine, indicating GPU failure. They’ve just been playing for five minutes and then updated the console before experiencing the issue.