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Nippon Ichi Software has announced “Nippon Ichi PC Games,” a new PC games distribution service for Windows. Until now, limited physical bonuses such as art books and acrylic stands were only available ...

"Xbox mode" (formerly Xbox Full Screen Experience) is here to replace your console. Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team ...

Can you really get a Windows PC running like new again? Using this free tool from Microsoft, you can get pretty close. Microsoft Windows has been with us for more than 40 years at this point. Over ...

Building your own PC used to be the best alternative to buying a prebuilt one. Instead of settling for whatever a manufacturer chose to bundle together, you could hand-pick every single component. If ...

Sony is reportedly stopping its plans to release PS5 games on PC, ending an experiment that started a few years ago. The company will still consider multiplatform releases for online games like ...

According to a new report, Sony is rolling back its strategy of releasing big, exclusive, single-player PlayStation games — the likes of Marvel’s Spider-Man, The Last of Us, and God of War — on ...

The AI data center boom is squeezing PC and smartphone sales, with a decrease of more than 10% in the offing this year. Global PC and smartphone sales are expected to fall by more than 10% this year, ...

After an initial disclosure from Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, two prominent leakers have backed his account that Sony could be shifting away from releasing single-player titles on PC. According to ...