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My fellow RTX 3070 owners, where ya at!?

Sure enough, refreshed the page at 10AM Pacific, the button changed and I was able to make a reservation and got my confirmation email!

PC Master Race

81-Year-Old Minecraft Streamer Gets SWATed While Raising Money for Grandson’s Cancer Treatment (eteknix.com)

With a straight face, Valve insists Counter-Strike 2 cases are fine and "people enjoy surprises" in move to dismiss New York lawsuit (gamesradar.com)

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 10th anniversary edition appears in India for around $310 (videocardz.com)

Steam Removes Another Free Game Accused of Stealing Player Data Through Malware (mp1st.com)

Microsoft forced to bring back Surface Laptop with 8GB RAM as it scrambles to keep prices down amidst RAM crisis: New device fails to meet Copilot+ PC requirements (windowscentral.com)

RAM makers are drowning in debt to keep up with AI's chip appetite (techspot.com)

Team Group DRAM Settlement – Up to $150+ (No Proof Needed for up to 5 Units), Deadline August 2026 (claimstacks.com)

007 First Light Wants To Surpass GoldenEye And Become “The Best Bond Game Ever” (gameobserver.com)

Early Leak of the 7700X3D (hothardware.com)

Lifetime Plex Pass subscriptions are tripling in price from $249.99 to $749.99, starting July 1, 2026 (plex.tv)

Forza Horizon 6 achieved a peak of over 273k players on Steam, three times more than FH5. Turns out well-optimised games with no Denuvo sell great (thephrasemaker.com)

Arc Raiders is adding controversial Denuvo anti-cheat as cheaters continue to plague the extraction shooter (frvr.com)

Microsoft admits faulty drivers were killing Windows 11 battery life for years (pcworld.com)

Lego Batman Legacy Of The Dark Knight Leaked And Pirated 3 Days Before Release And 7 Hours Before Early Access (en.gamegpu.com)

Lords Of The Fallen 2 Devs Have Successfully Terminated Epic Games Exclusivity Deal, The Game Will Now Launch On Steam (bankier.pl)

'Please stop submitting AI slop code': team behind popular PS3 emulator call time on user submitted vibe coding (pcgamer.com)

Microsoft is killing SMS codes for Microsoft account sign-in, aggressively pushes passkeys on Windows 11 (windowslatest.com)

Sony will no longer release single-player games on PC (mp1st.com)

Ex-Valve Writer Does Not Want to Work on Half-Life 3, Says It Would Be a "Nightmare” (mp1st.com)

Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’ (theregister.com)

"Atrocious implementation": Microsoft's unremovable Copilot button is driving Excel users crazy with forced AI in spreadsheets (windowscentral.com)

Samsung starts winding down chip production six days before planned 18-day strike — company enters 'emergency management mode,' daily losses could hit $2 billion (tomshardware.com)

'Terraria' has sold over 70M copies in 15 years. (store.steampowered.com)

Former Microsoft VP says Microsoft missed the AI wave like the internet and mobile, as Copilot scales back in Windows 11 (windowslatest.com)

Forza Horizon 6 Becomes Highest Rated Game of 2026 on Metacritic (twistedvoxel.com)

NVIDIA Says Five-Year-Old GPUs Are Aging Like 'Fine Wine,' As Prices Climb Due To Growing AI Demand (wccftech.com)

Microsoft confirms Windows 11 KB5089549 fails install, shares workarounds (neowin.net)

Microsoft brings back Windows 10 taskbar customizations to Windows 11 (notebookcheck.net)

Gamers Nexus and Louis Rossmann take on Bambu Lab over OrcaSlicer fork dev. Openly dare the company to sue them (notebookcheck.net)

PS3 emulator RPCS3's team is asking AI vibe coders to 'stop peddling AI-generated slop’ (notebookcheck.net)

60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market (tomshardware.com)

Microsoft rolls out Windows 11's movable and smaller taskbar 5 years after killing it (hands on experience) (windowslatest.com)

Valve Reportedly Lets Delayed Steam Controller Buyers Choose A Free Game of Choice (gameobserver.com)

Developers of Party Animals announce an AI video contest - game gets a review bomb (gamingonlinux.com)

Microsoft commits to native UI for Windows 11 as users push back against web app slop (windowslatest.com)

With Advanced Shader Delivery, Forza Horizon 6 loads in 4 seconds instead of 90 seconds (devblogs.microsoft.com)

Modder creates a fully working 16GB RTX 3070 using VRAM from a dead AMD GPU (techspot.com)

SteamOS scared Microsoft into making Windows less like Windows (xda-developers.com)

Twenty years ago, copper was king for PC enthusiasts so Asus has brought it back for its ROG anniversary. Well, sort of (pcgamer.com)

Report: Nvidia Preparing RTX 5090 Price Increase Due to Rising GDDR7 Memory Costs (mp1st.com)

'It nearly killed me': Why studio head James Ohlen left sci-fi RPG Exodus mid-development—and why EA crushing his Star Wars: The Old Republic reboot was the 'beginning of the end' at BioWare (pcgamer.com)

Nvidia's solution to the AI energy problem is mini data centers next to local power substations and, of course, selling even more GPUs (pcgamer.com)

Louis Rossman Blasts EA for Dead Space 2's Lockout DRM (notebookcheck.net)

AMD FSR Upscaling 4.1 officially coming to Radeon RX 7000 GPUs in July, RX 6000 in 2027 (techpowerup.com)

Helldivers 2 modders add multi-faction battles, custom missions and more in amazing Galactic War overhaul (frvr.com)

Subnautica 2 Dev Responds to Pirates Leaking the Game; "I hope you rethink your life choices" (respawnfirst.com)

AMD FSR Upscaling 4.1 officially coming to Radeon RX 7000 GPUs in July, RX 6000 in 2027 (videocardz.com)

Microsoft confirms Windows 11 has been downgrading graphics drivers, reveals when a fix is coming (windowslatest.com)

Sad RAM sounds

Thick as Thieves’ cheap $5 pricetag is “not really about recouping costs” as the devs want players’ help to guide the game’s future (frvr.com)

Windows is getting a cloud feature that fixes bad drivers before they wreck your PC (techspot.com)

Valve snuck a Wilhelm scream Easter egg into the new Steam Controller (pcgamer.com)

The Steam Controller Plays The Wilhelm Scream Sound If It's Dropped In Big Picture Mode (twistedvoxel.com)

"Valve can't stop winning": New Steam update revamps Community Market with "bigger, better listings" and more, much to Counter-Strike 2 fans' delight (gamesradar.com)

An RTX 3070 is living proof that software now matters more than hardware (xda-developers.com)

Twin brothers wipe 96 gov't databases minutes after being fired (arstechnica.com)

Subnautica 2 hit 5 million Steam wishlists days before its early access launch, so "every player" gets a special gift (gamesradar.com)

Dead Space writer loves Disco Elysium for its “really high literature writing", saying “that’s not happening” in any other games (frvr.com)

After Forza Horizon 6, Now Subnautica 2 Has Reportedly Leaked 48 Hours Ahead of Launch (respawnfirst.com)

Microsoft's Kenya AI data center would require switching off 'half the country' to meet power requirements, government says — $1bn project stalls over capacity disagreements and lack of infrastructure (tomshardware.com)

Indie developer who got blocked on Steam for “potential infringement” of his own work finally gets green light after issuing license declaration to himself (automaton-media.com)

Microsoft fires head of Israeli subsidiary and other managers over surveillance of Palestinians (pcgamer.com)

PS3 Emulator Github Is Flooded With AI Code, Devs Say “Stop Submitting Slop” (respawnfirst.com)

Exclusive: AMD preparing Radeon RX 9050 desktop graphics card with 8GB VRAM (videocardz.com)

GameSir officially launches the PC version of its G7 Pro controller, unlocking a ludicrous 8,000Hz polling rate for less than $100 (gamesradar.com)

Forza Horizon 6 Players Running Leaked Copies Are Reportedly Having Their Xbox Accounts Banned (twistedvoxel.com)

Valve May Be Preparing Four Steam Machine Packages With Up to 2 TB Storage (eteknix.com)

Steins;Gate Re:Boot developers announce full ban on streaming and uploading gameplay footage (automaton-media.com)

Microsoft denies Windows 11 CPU boost trick is a lazy fix, says Apple does this and you love it (windowslatest.com)

AI data center project secretly sucked 29 million gallons of water over 15 months before... (tomshardware.com)

Linux gaming is getting faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features (xda-developers.com)

Steam's database suggests Valve already has a reservation queue system ready for the Steam Machine (notebookcheck.net)

Xbox Mode delivers performance boosts on PC, but mostly for Nvidia cards (thephrasemaker.com)

JDownloader site hacked to replace installers with Python RAT malware (bleepingcomputer.com)

Stop Killing Games, Mozilla, EFF and others sign letter urging lawmakers to stop Age Verification (gamingonlinux.com)

Guerilla Games co-founder and Epic veteran building ‘a European alternative’ to Unreal Engine (videogameschronicle.com)

Gabe Newell Says Steam Sales Are the Secret Behind Steam’s Success (eteknix.com)

Cosplaying Gamers Will Raid EA HQ To Protest Saudi Arabia's $55 Billion Buyout (gamespot.com)

Nobody believes Blizzard meant to give Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred players a 900% gold boost, but that hasn't stopped them from exploiting it until someone sticks a decimal point in there (pcgamer.com)

81-Year-Old Minecraft Streamer Gets SWATed While Raising Money for Grandson’s Cancer Treatment

With a straight face, Valve insists Counter-Strike 2 cases are fine and "people enjoy surprises" in move to dismiss New York lawsuit

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 10th anniversary edition appears in India for around $310

Steam Removes Another Free Game Accused of Stealing Player Data Through Malware

Microsoft forced to bring back Surface Laptop with 8GB RAM as it scrambles to keep prices down amidst RAM crisis: New device fails to meet Copilot+ PC requirements

RAM makers are drowning in debt to keep up with AI's chip appetite

Team Group DRAM Settlement – Up to $150+ (No Proof Needed for up to 5 Units), Deadline August 2026

007 First Light Wants To Surpass GoldenEye And Become “The Best Bond Game Ever”

Early Leak of the 7700X3D

Lifetime Plex Pass subscriptions are tripling in price from $249.99 to $749.99, starting July 1, 2026

Forza Horizon 6 achieved a peak of over 273k players on Steam, three times more than FH5. Turns out well-optimised games with no Denuvo sell great

Arc Raiders is adding controversial Denuvo anti-cheat as cheaters continue to plague the extraction shooter

Microsoft admits faulty drivers were killing Windows 11 battery life for years

Lego Batman Legacy Of The Dark Knight Leaked And Pirated 3 Days Before Release And 7 Hours Before Early Access

Lords Of The Fallen 2 Devs Have Successfully Terminated Epic Games Exclusivity Deal, The Game Will Now Launch On Steam

'Please stop submitting AI slop code': team behind popular PS3 emulator call time on user submitted vibe coding

Microsoft is killing SMS codes for Microsoft account sign-in, aggressively pushes passkeys on Windows 11

Sony will no longer release single-player games on PC

Ex-Valve Writer Does Not Want to Work on Half-Life 3, Says It Would Be a "Nightmare”

Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’

"Atrocious implementation": Microsoft's unremovable Copilot button is driving Excel users crazy with forced AI in spreadsheets

Samsung starts winding down chip production six days before planned 18-day strike — company enters 'emergency management mode,' daily losses could hit $2 billion

'Terraria' has sold over 70M copies in 15 years.

Former Microsoft VP says Microsoft missed the AI wave like the internet and mobile, as Copilot scales back in Windows 11

Forza Horizon 6 Becomes Highest Rated Game of 2026 on Metacritic

NVIDIA Says Five-Year-Old GPUs Are Aging Like 'Fine Wine,' As Prices Climb Due To Growing AI Demand

Microsoft confirms Windows 11 KB5089549 fails install, shares workarounds

Microsoft brings back Windows 10 taskbar customizations to Windows 11

Gamers Nexus and Louis Rossmann take on Bambu Lab over OrcaSlicer fork dev. Openly dare the company to sue them

PS3 emulator RPCS3's team is asking AI vibe coders to 'stop peddling AI-generated slop’

60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market

Microsoft rolls out Windows 11's movable and smaller taskbar 5 years after killing it (hands on experience)

Valve Reportedly Lets Delayed Steam Controller Buyers Choose A Free Game of Choice

Developers of Party Animals announce an AI video contest - game gets a review bomb

Microsoft commits to native UI for Windows 11 as users push back against web app slop

With Advanced Shader Delivery, Forza Horizon 6 loads in 4 seconds instead of 90 seconds

Modder creates a fully working 16GB RTX 3070 using VRAM from a dead AMD GPU

SteamOS scared Microsoft into making Windows less like Windows

Twenty years ago, copper was king for PC enthusiasts so Asus has brought it back for its ROG anniversary. Well, sort of

Report: Nvidia Preparing RTX 5090 Price Increase Due to Rising GDDR7 Memory Costs

'It nearly killed me': Why studio head James Ohlen left sci-fi RPG Exodus mid-development—and why EA crushing his Star Wars: The Old Republic reboot was the 'beginning of the end' at BioWare

Nvidia's solution to the AI energy problem is mini data centers next to local power substations and, of course, selling even more GPUs

Louis Rossman Blasts EA for Dead Space 2's Lockout DRM

AMD FSR Upscaling 4.1 officially coming to Radeon RX 7000 GPUs in July, RX 6000 in 2027

Helldivers 2 modders add multi-faction battles, custom missions and more in amazing Galactic War overhaul

Subnautica 2 Dev Responds to Pirates Leaking the Game; "I hope you rethink your life choices"

AMD FSR Upscaling 4.1 officially coming to Radeon RX 7000 GPUs in July, RX 6000 in 2027

Microsoft confirms Windows 11 has been downgrading graphics drivers, reveals when a fix is coming

Thick as Thieves’ cheap $5 pricetag is “not really about recouping costs” as the devs want players’ help to guide the game’s future

Windows is getting a cloud feature that fixes bad drivers before they wreck your PC

Valve snuck a Wilhelm scream Easter egg into the new Steam Controller

The Steam Controller Plays The Wilhelm Scream Sound If It's Dropped In Big Picture Mode

"Valve can't stop winning": New Steam update revamps Community Market with "bigger, better listings" and more, much to Counter-Strike 2 fans' delight

An RTX 3070 is living proof that software now matters more than hardware

Twin brothers wipe 96 gov't databases minutes after being fired

Subnautica 2 hit 5 million Steam wishlists days before its early access launch, so "every player" gets a special gift

Dead Space writer loves Disco Elysium for its “really high literature writing", saying “that’s not happening” in any other games

After Forza Horizon 6, Now Subnautica 2 Has Reportedly Leaked 48 Hours Ahead of Launch

Microsoft's Kenya AI data center would require switching off 'half the country' to meet power requirements, government says — $1bn project stalls over capacity disagreements and lack of infrastructure

Indie developer who got blocked on Steam for “potential infringement” of his own work finally gets green light after issuing license declaration to himself

Microsoft fires head of Israeli subsidiary and other managers over surveillance of Palestinians

PS3 Emulator Github Is Flooded With AI Code, Devs Say “Stop Submitting Slop”

Exclusive: AMD preparing Radeon RX 9050 desktop graphics card with 8GB VRAM

GameSir officially launches the PC version of its G7 Pro controller, unlocking a ludicrous 8,000Hz polling rate for less than $100

Forza Horizon 6 Players Running Leaked Copies Are Reportedly Having Their Xbox Accounts Banned

Valve May Be Preparing Four Steam Machine Packages With Up to 2 TB Storage

Steins;Gate Re:Boot developers announce full ban on streaming and uploading gameplay footage

Microsoft denies Windows 11 CPU boost trick is a lazy fix, says Apple does this and you love it

AI data center project secretly sucked 29 million gallons of water over 15 months before...

Linux gaming is getting faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features

Steam's database suggests Valve already has a reservation queue system ready for the Steam Machine

Xbox Mode delivers performance boosts on PC, but mostly for Nvidia cards

JDownloader site hacked to replace installers with Python RAT malware

Stop Killing Games, Mozilla, EFF and others sign letter urging lawmakers to stop Age Verification

Guerilla Games co-founder and Epic veteran building ‘a European alternative’ to Unreal Engine

Gabe Newell Says Steam Sales Are the Secret Behind Steam’s Success

Cosplaying Gamers Will Raid EA HQ To Protest Saudi Arabia's $55 Billion Buyout

Nobody believes Blizzard meant to give Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred players a 900% gold boost, but that hasn't stopped them from exploiting it until someone sticks a decimal point in there

After 14 years since announcement, the Morrowind remake made in Skyrim gets another encouraging update and sounds close to completion

Linux mascot Tux the penguin hits 30 years old — Linus Torvalds outlined the design of the 'slightly overweight penguin' on May 9, 1996