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The Steam performance overlay will finally show CPU temps but it will require kernel access to do so
By Jacob Fox published
News You can disable it if you want, though.

A man gave himself an ailment rarely seen in the last hundred years after consulting ChatGPT on how to cut down on salt in his diet
By Jody Macgregor published
News Lucky doctor gets to cross a diagnosis of "bromism" off the bingo card.

Five new Steam games you probably missed (August 11, 2025)
By Shaun Prescott published
New on Steam Sorting through every new game on Steam so you don't have to.

It's PC Gamer's Gripes Week and you know what Windows 11 is… mostly fine. But it sure ain't perfect
By Dave James published
Gripes week I asked the team to nourish my black heart with their Windows pain and I'm kinda going hungry here.

Deliberately giving AI 'a dose of evil' may make it less evil overall, reads headline on ragged newspaper in the rubble of the robot apocalypse
By Christopher Livingston published
News A new study claims steering AI into "evil" behavior somehow makes it less prone to evil in the long run.

Trump Media and Perplexity team up for 'Truth Search AI,' a new tool in the fight against 'Big Tech's assault on free speech'
By Jeremy Laird published
News A slightly odd sales pitch given Perplexity's investors include Jeff Bezos and Nvidia...

Microsoft's beta Gaming Copilot AI is now available for Xbox Insiders, to 'help you get to gameplay faster, sharpen your skills, and be there when you need it and out of the way when you don’t'
By Jess Kinghorn published
News AI? More like A-I would rather not.

OpenAI's new open-weight reasoning model can be run locally on an RTX card but you still need a pretty beefy rig to run it
By James Bentley published
News AMD is supporting it too.
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