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Step by step help for buying, activating and playing.

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Two numbers determine most of how a game feels and looks, and they compete for the same hardware. How to spend it sensibly.

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Cloud gaming finally works properly, which has exposed the more interesting difference between the services: what you are allowed to play on them.

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PC controller support has improved enormously and is still inconsistent in one specific way that catches people out. What to check before buying.

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DRM is one of those topics where the argument has run so long that the technical facts have mostly dropped out of it. This is the technical part.

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The short answer is that they don't. What each system tracks, where the rare exceptions are, and why publishers have not fixed this.

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Building a PC is mostly a matter of buying parts that fit each other. What each component does, and where a first-time budget goes furthest.

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Region locking is one of the least understood parts of buying games, partly because three different restrictions all get called the same thing.

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Every platform has cloud saves. Almost none of them talk to each other. What each system does, and how to stop it eating your progress.

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Four settings account for most of the battery drain on a Steam Deck. Adjust these and you can roughly double your runtime on the same game.