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Open any gaming PC, and chances are the blue icon of Steam is sitting right there on the desktop. Not hidden, not optional, but almost expected. Over time, Steam has gone from being just another launcher to becoming the default storefront for PC gaming, almost like a built-in part of the experience. The Monopoly Nobody Talks About By most estimates, such as QuantumRun and IconEra, Steam controls roughly 70 to 80% of the PC digital distribution market. That is not just a strong lead. It is near-total dominance. At the same time, it follows the familiar 30% revenue cut model,…
In this week’s episode of The Game Informer Show, the fellas discuss Pragmata, Capcom’s inventive action game blending third-person shooting with a simultaneous hacking mechanic. Next, Alex chats about a new survival crafting game set in the age of piracy called Windrose. Lastly, we cover the news of an animated Bloodborne movie produced by popular YouTuber Jacksepticeye.The Game Informer Show is a weekly podcast covering the video game industry. Join us every Friday for chats about video game reviews, news, and exclusive reveals alongside Game Informer staff and special guests from around the industry. Support the show by subscribing to…
Rumors have long suggested that Apple is developing a version of the AirPods Pro equipped with infrared (IR) cameras (via MacRumors). The purpose behind the cameras, however, has remained quite vague until now. Why did Apple spend $2 billion on a company earlier this year? Earlier this year, the Cupertino giant paid $2 billion for Q.ai (its second-largest acquisition, behind only Beats), an Israeli AI startup that develops technology for interpreting microfacial movements. I’m talking about reading whispered or unspoken words by analyzing skin and music movements in real time. At the time, the acquisition raised quite a lot of…
Zoom video calls just got a new kind of awkward small feature. The platform will now ask you whether you’re human. It has partnered with World, Sam Altman’s iris-scanning identity company (previously known as Worldcoin), to add real-time human verification inside meetings. The feature, launched on April 17, 2026, is a part of World’s ID 4.0 rollout. It lets hosts confirm that every face on the call belongs to a real person, not an AI-generated imposter. How does the “verified human” badge actually work? For those wondering how World’s Deep Face technology works, it includes a three-step process. It cross-references…
Every year, millions of people follow Korean content without speaking a word of the language. They stream shows with subtitles, read translated lyrics, and find workarounds. But live theater has always been a different problem — you can’t pause or rewind it. That’s the problem: a Korean startup thinks it’s cracked, and Yuroy Wang was one of the first to try it. The 22-year-old Taipei retail worker is a K-pop fan who loves Korean culture but doesn’t speak the language. When he went to see “The Second Chance Convenience Store,” a touring play based on a Korean novel that was…
I’ve been waiting for Android to take desktop mode seriously for years. Back in 2019, I bought a OnePlus 7 Pro and wasted an embarrassing amount of time trying to brute-force its half-baked desktop mode into something useful. The idea made perfect sense to me even then. Phones were already absurdly powerful, and the thought of carrying one real computer in my pocket felt less like science fiction and more like delayed common sense. What wore me down wasn’t the idea. It was the waiting. Devices like the Steam Deck eventually showed that docking a compact machine into a usable…
Apple’s main business still revolves around the iPhone, with roughly half of the revenue being brought in by these devices. But this is why it feels so strange that the company managed to build a better entry-level Apple laptop than an entry-level iPhone. The MacBook Neo starts at $599 in the US, with buyers getting a full aluminum build, a 13-inch hi-res Liquid Retina display, Apple silicon, and all-day battery life. Apple is clear about what it has built. This isn’t a Pro machine with the powerful M series processors. But despite the various cutbacks in hardware, it still feels…
If you have ever gone down a rabbit hole while searching for something online, you know the drill. You open one tab, follow a link, open another, and another, and suddenly you have 14 tabs open and zero answers. It was one of the reasons that forced me to switch to Arc Browser, which offered easier-to-manage vertical tabs, which, incidentally, Google Chrome also added a week back. But Google is not stopping there, and is adding a meaningful upgrade to AI Mode in Chrome to fix this issue. So, what has Google done to solve tab chaos? The biggest change…
The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 is down to $1,719.99 in a limited-time deal, a $400 saving off its $2,119.99 list price, and this is the 512GB configuration worth holding out for. Foldable phones have matured considerably over the last two generations, and the Z Fold7 is the clearest argument yet that the form factor has moved well past novelty territory. What you’re getting The large inner display is the reason anyone buys a Z Fold7, and Samsung has continued to refine the crease and hinge to the point where it stops being something you notice after the first few hours.…
Post-apocalyptic settings have always had a unique pull across every form of media, and few game series have captured that atmosphere as well as Metro. That’s why the Metro 2039 announcement has me excited. With Metro Exodus, the last entry in the series felt more grounded and more outward-looking, with the darker psychological unease, which made Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light so popular, only making minor cameos. But the first reveal of Metro 2039 looks like it is dragging the series back into the dark—and then pushing it somewhere even stranger. Metro started as rejected online fiction, and that…