PC Gaming

Why reboot your whole SteamOS handheld to desktop when you can visit the desktop from inside the gaming mode? Nested Desktop does have limitations (no file management, no Steam-within-Steam) but gosh are there times this’d come in handy. Jacob at XDA calls it “the best Steam Deck feature you aren’t using”.

And Riot Games is hoping you won’t even notice, apart from the big download. Today’s update moves Valorant from Unreal Engine 4.27 to Unreal Engine 5.3, and there might even be some small performance improvements on some systems. While other PC games using Unreal 5 have run into stutter issues, Riot says its switch shouldn’t even be noticeable for most players.

Now all Game Pass Ultimate subscribers can stream games they own (including some console-only titles) from the cloud through the Xbox PC app, just like they can on other devices, which is a feature that has been in testing with Insiders program members.

Not to be outdone by GPD, which teased a handheld so powerful it’s begging to be plugged into the wall, Ayaneo is teasing its own Strix Halo handheld — alongside a mountain of other product. There’s so much you’ll need to scrub through not one, but two “strategy sharing session” videos to see it all. The Strix Halo device will be the Ayaneo Next 2, and it’s promising its battery will be internal unlike the GPD one.

The changes include organizing recommendations into “one convenient section” and a “fully personalized” categories tab, according to Valve. You can try it now by joining the Steam Client Beta.

A Wolfenstein show is in development, reports Variety, and sounds like it could be based on MachineGames’ fantastic games that actually told stories rather than starting from scratch. Both MachineGames’ studio director Jerk Gustafsson and the showrunners of Fallout (which got the games right) Lisa Joy and Jonah Nolan are attached. Showrunner here is Patrick Somerville; the show’s not official yet.

GPD, the company behind the most potent tiny laptops, is now teasing the most potent handheld. The GPD Win 5 will somehow fit a AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 — also see Framework Desktop and Asus’ ROG Flow Z13 gaming tablet — into a chassis that’s like a large PlayStation Vita with hidden keyboard.

There’s an art to building a small-form-factor PC. When my recent upgrade doubled my CPU power draw, I had to choose: buy a bigger case to accommodate a more powerful cooler, or cut a hole in the side of my old one.

Nvidia is releasing a new GeForce Game Ready Driver today, designed to improve performance in Wuchang: Fallen Feathers and Valorant’s Unreal Engine 5 upgrade. Valorant is moving to Unreal 5 on July 29th, which Nvidia says will introduce “additional content and changes.”

Nvidia has created yet another Cyberpunk 2077 graphics card. A special edition RTX 5090 has a Cyberpunk 2077 theme and it’s being given away as part of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX summer event. As VideoCardz points out, this is at least the sixth time that Nvidia has created a Cyberpunk-themed GPU, with a custom RTX 2080 Ti first appearing in 2020 at the game’s launch. Nvidia has Cyberpunk’d every GPU generation since then.

There was some concern that Trump’s tariffs would impact the attractive price that Dell announced for its Alienware 27 280Hz QD-OLED gaming monitor earlier this year, but it’s now launched unscathed. A smaller 25-inch 320Hz monitor is also available for $249 if you don’t mind switching the OLED panel for an IPS display.

“We’ve now filed a lawsuit against Krafton,” says Unknown Worlds co-founder (and Subnautica director) Charlie Cleveland. He says fans “deserve the full story” and “the idea that Max, Ted and I wanted to keep it all for ourselves is totally untrue.”

That is the unanswered question in Jason Schreier’s latest for Bloomberg, which reveals the existence of a $250 million bonus if the game met sales targets this year — and that the ousted bosses of developer Unknown Worlds were planning to share it with staff. New studio head Steve Papoutsis told employees he was unaware of the bonus, and that Krafton had simply decided the game wasn’t ready to ship.

We have the early answer, thanks to Digital Foundry and Cary “The Phawx” Golomb, and... it’s so nuanced and intriguing I recommend you watch both videos yourself! But TL;DR:

Dead Take, the next game from Tales of Kenzera developer Surgent Studios and the first game published under Palworld’s Pocketpair Publishing company, has revealed two of its stars...and you’ll probably recognize them.

Backyard Baseball 2001 is getting remastered for Steam, iOS, and Android as Backyard Baseball ‘01, releasing July 8th.

Vlambeer co-founder Jan Willem Nijman posted a surprise update on Steam detailing numerous updates in a new Nuclear Throne beta build, including 60fps and 120fps modes, more aspect ratios and a new controls menu. The roguelike shooter was capped at 30fps since its 2015 release.

Humble’s best known for curating video game bundles that give proceeds to charities. The Ziff Davis-owned company also sells a subscription called Choice, and I’m sorry if this is the first that you’re hearing of it, because I’m here to tell you that it’s getting more expensive on July 1st, as mentioned by Wario64. It’s increasing from $11.99 per month to $14.99.

That’s because the Steam summer sale is about to begin. A bunch of games will be discounted starting at 1PM EDT/10AM PDT on June 26th, and the price cuts will last for two weeks, ending at the same time on July 10th.