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The Full Nerd is reaching a major milestone today as PCWorld’s long running enthusiast tech podcast celebrates its 400th episode with a live broadcast. The special episode will stream on YouTube at 2 PM Eastern and 11 AM Pacific, giving viewers a chance to join the team as it looks back on nearly a decade of weekly PC hardware discussions. The milestone matters because

Xbox controller stick drift may become easier to deal with thanks to a new update from DriftGuard, a third party calibration tool that claims it can now manually and automatically recalibrate any Xbox controller. The app’s team says the breakthrough works by writing calibration data directly to the controller’s memory, making the change permanent and resistant to future firmware updates. Stick drift is one

Steam is best known as a game store, but it also has a large library of non game apps that can make a Windows PC more useful. These tools cover areas such as art, streaming, desktop customization, performance support, and gameplay overlays. For PC players, that makes Steam more than a place to buy games. It can also work as a simple hub for

Mini PCs are no longer limited to basic office work or light browsing. Many compact desktops can now handle gaming, but the best option depends on whether you want to play locally, stream from the cloud, or use a handheld style device that can also work like a small PC. Windows Central’s updated buying guide highlights several mini PCs and gaming handhelds suited for

Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader is getting its third DLC expansion, The Infinite Museion, on June 11, 2026, and Owlcat Games is adding a major new system that could change how players build their party. The expansion is coming to PC, Xbox Series X and S, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch 2, with a story centered on raiding the museum of Trazyn the Infinite, one

Halo: Campaign Evolved is one of Xbox’s biggest planned releases for this year, but a new report suggests the remake may have been built with much heavier outside support than many fans expected. The game is officially led by Halo Studios, the developer formerly known as 343 Industries, but Halo insider Rebs Gaming claims that a large amount of the work was handled by

Forza Horizon 6 is turning into one of Microsoft’s biggest gaming wins of the year. After a strong Early Access launch and a fast start across Xbox Series X and S, Windows PC, Steam, and Xbox Game Pass, the racing game has now passed Call of Duty on Xbox’s most played games list. That puts Playground Games’ open world racer ahead of one of

Forza Horizon 6 has only been out for a short time, but its community has already found a shared rival. The target is not a real player, a bug, or a difficult event. It is bowie knife99, an AI drivatar that has become infamous for ramming players, ruining clean races, and turning ordinary drives into chaos. The situation has become one of the funniest

Nvidia is officially retiring the classic Nvidia Control Panel after 20 years, marking the end of one of the most familiar tools for GeForce graphics card owners. The change arrived with Nvidia’s Game Ready Driver 610.47, which adds support for new games and includes bug fixes, but the bigger shift is that new drivers will no longer carry the old Control Panel by default.

AOC has launched its first native 1000 Hz Full HD gaming monitor, bringing another ultra high refresh rate option to competitive players shortly after LG introduced its own 1080p 1000 Hz display. The new model, called AGON PRO AGP257FT, uses a BOE native Full HD 1000 Hz panel and is aimed at esports players who want the fastest possible display response for racing games

Intel’s Bartlett Lake flagship has appeared in gaming benchmarks, and the results are not very encouraging for anyone expecting a major jump from its 12 Performance core design. The Core 9 273PQE was tested against several processors, including the older Core i9 13900K, and the newer chip failed to deliver a clear gaming advantage despite having four more P cores. The comparison is interesting

Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced will bring Edward Kenway’s pirate story back on July 9, 2026, with a full remake for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series S and X. Ubisoft is not treating this as a simple visual upgrade. The game has been rebuilt on the modern Anvil engine, with new story content, a seamless open world, updated traversal, deeper naval combat, and

Rocket League is set to become the first game to use Unreal Engine 6, giving players and developers the clearest sign yet that Epic Games is preparing the next major step for its game engine. The reveal came during the Rocket League Championship Series 2026 event in Paris, where Psyonix and Epic Games confirmed the plan but did not share detailed technical information about

Star Citizen has crossed a major and unusual milestone, with more than $1 billion raised through crowdfunding after nearly 14 years. The figure makes Cloud Imperium Games’ space sim one of the most heavily funded game projects ever, but the milestone also arrives with a familiar question still unanswered: when will version 1.0 actually launch? The project began in 2012, when Chris Roberts launched

Valve’s upcoming Steam Machine appears to be moving closer to release, even though the company has still not announced an official launch date. The system was recently added to the Khronos Vulkan conformant product database, a step that often comes late in the preparation process for new hardware. The listing identifies the system as “AMD Steam Machine” and confirms support for Vulkan 1.4 through

PlayStation 3 emulation on modern PlayStation hardware remains a difficult problem, and a new technical test suggests the PlayStation 5 may not have enough CPU power to handle the most demanding PS3 games at full speed. The test points to the PlayStation 6, reportedly expected to use AMD’s Zen 6 CPU architecture, as the more likely system for proper native PS3 emulation. The issue

Sony is preparing a major PlayStation State of Play for June 2, 2026, and this one looks larger than the usual update stream. The company has confirmed a showcase running for more than 60 minutes, with Marvel’s Wolverine set to be one of the main highlights. The broadcast will go live at 2 PM PT, 5 PM ET, 10 PM BST, and 11 PM

Judas, the next game from BioShock creator Ken Levine, may still be years away from release. Take Two’s latest quarterly report lists the Ghost Story Games title in a launch window that runs from April 2027 to March 2029. If the game arrives near the end of that period, it could spend around 11 years in development. The update gives a clearer but still

Destiny fans are making it clear that they want Bungie to return to its biggest franchise with Destiny 3, even as the studio appears to be putting its near future behind Marathon. A new fan petition calling for Destiny 3 has reportedly crossed 180,000 signatures, which is more than double Marathon’s peak concurrent player count on Steam. The petition gained attention after Bungie confirmed

007 First Light will not support preload on Steam or Xbox, which means PC and Xbox players will have to wait until the official release time before they can start downloading the game. PlayStation 5 is the only platform getting preload support, because IO Interactive says it is required on that platform. The detail was confirmed by IO Interactive representative Arti_IOI on the game’s