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Valve says Steam Deck’s SSD change impacts performance only in ‘extremely uncommon cases’ And then only in file transfers—“OS performance, loading times, game performance, and game responsiveness are identical.” When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Steam Deck designer Lawrence Yang has explained the rationale behind a recent change to the handheld gaming PC’s storage options, saying that the team at Valve has “determined that there is no impact to performance between the two models” of SSD now being used....

We spoke to Dr. Wasteland, the heroic healer who became a legend in DayZ’s early days Tales from the Hard Drive Ep3: The player who proved even a grim post-apocalyptic survival sim had space for altruism. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Saving lives instead of taking them. From its beginning as a mod for Bohemia Interactive’s realistic shooter Arma 2, zombie survival sim DayZ was defined by the tales of its players....

Wild West Dynasty looks like any other survival game until it turns into a city builder It ambitiously aims to be a blend of survival, town building, resource management, and action. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. There’s a lot going on in Wild West Dynasty: roleplaying, survival, life simulation, resource management, and city building, according to the game’sSteam page....

Windows Defender is reportedly hindering performance on Intel CPUs Developer claims that a Windows Defender bug could be sapping up to 6% of Intel CPU performance. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Developer Kevin Glynn, aka “Uncle Webb,” has discovered a weird Windows Defender bug that causes Intel CPUs to suffer a significant performance hit on Windows 10 or 11....

Wizard royale Spellbreak is shutting down next year Despite trying to defy genre norms, it failed to stand out in a sea of big names. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Spellbreak, the fantasy battle royale from Proletariat, has announced it’ll be shutting down in early 2023. The game attempted to offer a twist on the traditional battle royale, swapping guns for gauntlets that put the power of the various elements at your fingertips....

Xbox Game Studios boss says there’s no more crunching at Bethesda Matt Booty is “confident” that the crunch culture has been eliminated. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Allegations surfaced earlier this month that the development of Fallout 76 was plagued by, among other things, a heavyreliance on crunch. One source described it as “voluntold overtime,” because employees were told that if nobody volunteered to come in to work over a weekend, the entire dev team would be called in....

‘I will stream while you cook for me,’ says banned Twitch streamer in bizarre sexist rant Greekgodx caught a ban after saying his partners belong in the kitchen, but says it was for a different reason entirely. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Dimitri “Greekgodx” Antonatos, a controversial variety streamer with over 1.5 million followers, was banned on Twitch today following a stream that included a sexist rant about the role of women in his life....