Hardware
Steam Deck's Verified badge no longer tells you whether to buy
We re-ran 24 games marked Verified. Nine drop below 30 fps on default settings, and three render text too small to read.
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Tech
How many frames does Denuvo actually cost? We ran six games twice
Same machine, same save, same graphics settings, only the executable changed. The result sits closer to what players feel than to what publishers claim.
Method
Why we stopped scoring games out of ten
A ten-point scale packs how badly a game runs and how well it is written into one number. Readers cannot decide from that. Seven dimensions later, the complaints after purchase are more accurate.
Patches
Monster Hunter Wilds patch 4: what it fixed, and what it didn't
Median frame time improved 22%. The 1% low barely moved, and the stutter during hunts comes from the 1% low.
Hardware
GPU tiers for 1440p, Q4 2026: what to buy
Ranked by the 1% low across 30 games, not by benchmark score. The mid tier has a new pick this quarter.
Data
Is a two-hour refund window enough to judge a game?
We logged 1,800 of our own refunds. More than half of the problems show up within 40 minutes, but performance problems take 96 minutes on average.