Mark Zuckerberg quietly drops new app to help kids make AI slop video games

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Published Jul 7, 2026, 1:06 PM EDT

After making mass layoffs at its game studios, Meta is backing a platform for creating games with AI.

Obsession star Inde Navarrette built her gaming PC just like you and me: By watching Henry Cavill do it first

Readers! Exciting news about the future direction of PC Gamer, heretofore your number one destination for news about things Henry Cavill is doing. We are now also your number one destination for news about things Obsession star Inde Navarrette is doing. Come with me as we march boldly into this new era.

Arc Raiders reveals it's been successfully targeting item duplication exploits as the percentage of players with 'unusually high profit per minute' drops below 1% for the first time in months

There's been more duplication exploits in Arc Raiders at one point or another than I can shake several suspiciously identical sticks at. It's the get rich quick scheme that a lot of raiders opt in to, there's been multi-million rubber duck hauls and prisons made of just ziplines. It seems like there's no end to the creativity of a dupe exploit, but Embark has confirmed that it's been cracking down on them.

Xbox Game Pass loses a bunch of great games this month amid bleak subscriber numbers

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Published Jul 7, 2026, 12:32 PM EDT

Check out Dungeons of Hinterberg and more before they're gone

Xbox Game Pass loses a bunch of great games this month amid bleak subscriber numbers

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Must-have Steam dating app will help you decide what to play next

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Published Jul 7, 2026, 12:28 PM EDT

No chat up lines needed

Must-have Steam dating app will help you decide what to play next

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We Pit the Steam Machine Against the PS5 and the Results Don't Look Great For Valve

There’s no way around it, the Steam Machine is extremely expensive for the level of performance you get out of it. I still think that anyone who’s only looking to play games would probably be better served with a PS5 or an Xbox Series X, especially if you don’t already have a Steam library. In general, the Steam Machine performs very similarly to the PS5, even if it falls short in some of the games I’ve tested.

CD Projekt Red thanks 6000 Edgerunners 2 advance viewers for not spoiling the show in stunning display of opsec: 'Thank you so much for keeping your promise properly'

First reported by GamesRadar, CD Projekt Red has thanked thousands of fans for doing something exceedingly rare in today's entertainment space: Not spoiling a hotly anticipated new show even though they got advance access.

Rare Pokémon 'god pack' looks too astonishing to believe

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Published Jul 6, 2026, 4:21 PM EDT

A Canadian youth is the first to find a fully golden 'God Pack'

This kid might've just pulled the rarest Pokémon 'god pack' you've ever seen

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Major Pokémon Go 10th Anniversary Broadcast Announced

Pokémon Go will hold a very special 10th anniversary broadcast this Thursday, July 9 — with details on what it will contain currently top secret.

It's now been a decade since Pokémon Go first launched and became a global phenomenon. Remember that first trailer where players were shown catching, trading and then battling a giant Mewtwo in Times Square? Well, 10 years on, millions of players still log on every day: catching, trading and battling with the app's ever-expanding menagerie that now stretches to almost 1,000 creatures.

Microsoft's latest Game Pass numbers are officially a disaster

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Published Jul 6, 2026, 3:58 PM EDT

Microsoft's subscription service has fallen well short of expectations

Xbox wanted 77M Game Pass subscribers by 2026 — today it has less than half that

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