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Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 10, 2025)

Five new Steam games…

Best of the best (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) 2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games:…
Google is rolling out an even more AI-heavy search engine mode because ‘power users want AI responses for even more of their searches’

Google is rolling out…

If you’ve found yourself actually using Google’s AI Overview system, you may like the new AI Mode Google has…
Brace yourself for Discord to get worse: Reports swirl that the company is in talks with bankers about opening itself up to shareholders

Brace yourself for Discord…

I am not, on the whole, pro-Discord. I don’t like that it has supplanted easily searchable forums. I don’t…
Seeing how much I hate its ads, YouTube tries to sell me yet another subscription tier with Premium Lite rolling out in the US

Seeing how much I…

It can be hard to keep count of all of the online subscription fees I’m paying these days; a…
US Justice Dept announces $10 million bounty on at-large ‘hacker-for-hire’ cabal it says targeted China critics, religious missionaries, and the Treasury

US Justice Dept announces…

The US Department of Justice announced yesterday that it’s charging 12 alleged Chinese hackers over a string of cyber-attacks…
Steam users react ecstatically to update that lets them access their heaving game notes via the web, also it fixes Monster Hunter Wilds video recording

Steam users react ecstatically…

I gotta be honest, the sum total of my engagement with Steam’s Game Notes feature is that one time…
Google asks Trump’s DOJ to please, please, please reconsider parting it from Chrome

Google asks Trump’s DOJ…

Last year, the US Department of Justice proposed a number of remedies to address Google’s vice-like hold over search.…
YouTube raked in over $60 billion in revenue last year, says Alphabet, between its seemingly-endless parade of adverts and its Premium subscription service

YouTube raked in over…

Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has handily summarised the latter’s Q4 results in a blog post this week,…
Twitch streamer Hasan Piker suspended after saying Republicans would ‘kill Rick Scott’ if they really cared about Medicare fraud

Twitch streamer Hasan Piker…

Twitch streamer Hasan Piker has been banned, again, apparently for suggesting that if the Republican Party was serious about…
You might mock Microsoft’s new emoji button in Windows 11 but as someone that’s explained how to quickly access emojis and special characters too many times, I get it

You might mock Microsoft’s…

PC Gamer’s staff recently had an intense debate about whether a solitary thumbs up emoji was passive aggressive or…