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December 19, 2025

We asked four AI coding agents to rebuild Minesweeper—the results were explosive

How do four modern LLMs do at recreating a simple Windows gaming classic? ...

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December 16, 2025

Reporter suggests Half-Life 3 will be a Steam Machine launch title

"Everybody I've talked to are still adamant," even after previous rumors didn't pan out. ...

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December 16, 2025

Microsoft takes down mod that re-created Halo 3 in Counter-Strike 2

Project Misriah creator vows to use new experience "to cook up something else." ...

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December 13, 2025

Apple loses its appeal of a scathing contempt ruling in iOS payments case

But Sweeney warns iOS devs are still afraid of "totally illegal" retaliation by Apple. ...

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December 13, 2025

Reminder: Donate to win swag in our annual Charity Drive sweepstakes

Help raise a charity haul that's already past $11,000 in just a couple of days. ...

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December 12, 2025

Instead of fixing WoW’s new floating house exploit, Blizzard makes it official

"We all kinda immediately agreed this was way too cool to change." ...

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December 12, 2025

Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles for you

Preview: Order of the Sinking Star started small but became a "combinatoric explosion." ...

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December 12, 2025

Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic announced as a KOTOR spiritual successor

Original KOTOR director Casey Hudson returns to Star Wars with new studio Arcanaut. ...

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December 08, 2025

Please send help. I can’t stop playing these roguelikes.

2025 was a very good year for my favorite genre. ...

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December 05, 2025

SteamOS vs. Windows on dedicated GPUs: It’s complicated, but Windows has an edge

Ars testing shows SteamOS fares better on iGPUs than powerful graphics cards. ...

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December 04, 2025

Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama.

Valve tells Ars its "trying to unblock" limits caused by open source driver issues. ...

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December 02, 2025

Testing shows why the Steam Machine’s 8GB of graphics RAM could be a problem

Valve has work to do on the software side - but some fixes are coming. ...

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