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How Valve made Steam Deck the first PC to smoothly run Elden Ring

Enlarge / Artistic representation of having Elden Ring running surprisingly smoothly on Steam Deck. (credit: Valve / From Software / Sam Machkovech) While Elden Ring‘s recent launch has been a massive critical and commercial success, it continues developer From Software’s streak of leaving players in a technical lurch. Even on the newest Xbox and PlayStation […]

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Why one renowned games analyst isn’t playing Halo Infinite on PC for now

Enlarge / Get ready for choppy frame rates on this bad guy’s animations, even on your most powerful PC, thanks to certain missing optimizations on Halo Infinite ‘s upcoming PERSONAL COMPUTER version. (credit: Xbox Game Studios / 343 Industries) Ars Technica will eventually go hands-on with Halo Infinite ‘s campaign on COMPUTER, but as I […]

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Sony’s new PS5 firmware can make your games slightly faster

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Sony) Sony’s latest PS5 system firmware update makes some games run slightly faster, at least under certain scenarios. In a new Digital Foundry video , it was discovered that a performance bump—which affects both the console’s 1000 series launch model and recently released 1100 series model revision—appears to make certain […]