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Jul302026 by Natalia GanevaNo Comments

Steam Machine Now Supports FSR 4.1

Credit: Valve Valve shared new information about its Steam Machine console. Among other things, it pleased owners and potential buyers with the news that the device now supports the FSR 4.1 upscaler. Valve expects that everyone who currently pre-orders a Steam Machine will receive an email with the option to purchase by the end of 2026. This announcement does not apply to those on the waitlist. Furthermore, the company does not guarantee delivery of the mini PC by the end of the year. Those who have already pre-ordered a Steam Machine will have 72 hours to complete their purchase after receiving the email. Pre-order queues and waitlists are separated by product configuration and region. They may advance at different rates depending on demand. Some customers have already received a...

Jul262026 by Natalia GanevaNo Comments

‘God Of War Laufey’ To Be Released On February 16, 2027

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Credit: PlayStation During San Diego Comic-Con, the team from Sony and Santa Monica Studio announced the release date for God of War Laufey. You'll be able to immerse yourself in Faye's adventure in the afterlife on February 16, 2027. There's also news about a game that will once again star Kratos. God of War Laufey takes place in the afterlife of the gods, Everywhen, where Faye, the wife of the aggressive Spartan Kratos and mother of Atreus from the Norse saga God of War, finds herself after death. In the story, Faye discovers that her plans to protect Kratos and Atreus are in jeopardy. To save them, the heroine must fight her way through Everywhen, a world torn apart by a war for power between ruthless gods from different mythologies. Santa Monica Studio creative director Co...

Jul242026 by Natalia GanevaNo Comments

A Modder Combined GTA III, Vice City & San Andreas Using Working Portals

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Credit: Steam American-French modder Dryxio (DryxioGTA), who launched GTA III and GTA: Vice City on a TV inside GTA: San Andreas, has amazed fans with an ambitious new experiment with the classic trilogy. In the latest demonstration, portals are located in the Grove Street area of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Entering one portal instantly transports the player to Liberty City and places them in control of Claude from Grand Theft Auto III, while the other portal leads to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, where control shifts to Tommy Vercetti. This project is a continuation of a previously reported experiment. In that experiment, Dryxio was able to display Grand Theft Auto III on a working TV screen inside Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, with both games remaining fully playable simul...

Jul172026 by Natalia GanevaNo Comments

Steam Machine With Windows Turned Out To Be Slightly Faster Than With SteamOS

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Credit: steampowered.com In his new video, blogger ETA PRIME answered the question of whether the performance of a Steam Machine PC/console will improve if Windows 11 is installed on it instead of SteamOS. The experimenters increased the DDR-5600 memory from 16 to 64 GB, which may slightly distort the accuracy of the experiment, but this configuration was used both with SteamOS and in Windows, for which Valve kindly published drivers. The most noticeable difference was in the Geekbench 6 benchmark: Windows demonstrated a 3.3% performance increase in single-threaded mode and a 22% performance increase in multi-threaded mode. In games, the gap wasn't as dramatic. For example, Cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p resolution ran at 74 fps on SteamOS and 68 fps on Windows 11. When the resolution...