The big picture: Combined with compatibility layers such as Wine and Proton, third-party apps like Heroic Games Launcher have made games from multiple PC storefronts accessible on Linux and macOS. The Xbox Store, including Game Pass, remains a notable outlier, but work has recently begun to address that gap.

An unofficial project to make games purchased through the Microsoft Store or downloaded via Game Pass playable outside Windows has recently made notable

Ripple effect: Just like any other big tech corporation these days, Google is investing massive sums in turning AI into a new money-printing machine. The actual results are still not there, and the company might be willing to test its users' tolerance to make an even more mainstream business out of Gemini.

Google first introduced AI Mode in March 2025, explaining that the experimental feature would bring more Gemini

Big quote: Remember the many reports before GTA 6 was announced claiming that the standard version would cost $100 or possibly more? We now know it will cost $80 when it launches in November, with the deluxe edition priced at $100. Take-Two's CEO suggests we should be grateful for this as it could have been even higher and Rockstar is delivering more value than what

Rumor mill: Lenovo is working on a ThinkBook laptop with a display that expands from both sides of the screen, according to newly obtained images. The device, known internally as Project Swan, appears to be a new attempt to bring rollable-screen technology to a business laptop. The design offers an early look at Lenovo's approach to rollable-display engineering and its place in the company's broader PC lineup

WTF?! We live in a time when digital game ownership, or lack thereof, is under the spotlight like never before. Bringing more attention to the situation is the cloud version of Aliens: Fireteam Elite on the Nintendo Switch. Servers for the $30 game ($60 for the Ultimate Edition) are being shut down, meaning "owners" can no longer play it. Even worse, developer Cold

What just happened? A landmark 2024 court decision forced Google to support rival Android app stores in the US. While Epic Games, the company whose lawsuit initiated the shift, has not yet brought its storefront to Google Play, a relatively obscure app distributor has taken the first step.

Aptoide has become the first new Android app store available directly through the Google Play Store. The company is taking advantage of shifting

Sounding off: A lot of people are worried about the number of AI agents that have gone rogue recently, including Bernie Sanders. The Vermont senator has now called on the top AI firms to pause development of their top models, warning that lawmakers will step in if no action is taken.

In a letter to the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, Sanders writes that almost every day brings a new story about

In a nutshell: Andy Green will return to Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats on Tuesday in a new kind of record car: one powered by hydrogen-burning engines. The British driver, who holds the land-speed record for a diesel car, will drive JCB's Hydromax in an official attempt overseen by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. The company is using the run to demonstrate

Facepalm: Microsoft's default Weather app in Windows 11 can use nearly 1.2 GB of RAM while sitting open on a forecast screen, according to testing by Windows Latest. The app doesn't need to be actively used to reach that level of memory consumption. The report found that MSN Weather launches as many as nine Chromium-based subprocesses, suggesting the app is built around a web wrapper rather than