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If you’ve been struggling to manage your PC storage in the last year or two, you might want to look away now: Starfield’s system requirements demand 125GB of your SSD, making it the data equivalent of a red giant. Remarkably, this isn’t the largest game we’ve seen recently: Jedi Survivor required a whopping 155GB of storage, adding a whole Prey on top of what Starfield asks of your drive. But it still puts it firmly in the category of +100GB games, which is becoming the norm for PC gaming blockbusters.

Potential Starfielders should also note the phrase “SSD required” in the requirements. So if you’re still mucking about with a drive that requires—gasp—moving parts, time to toss it out the window and grab yourself a li’l data brick.

Meaty girth aside, Sta…

With an estimated 15-fold increase in operating profits, everything looks rosy for Samsung Electronics, thanks to the AI world’s demand for memory chips. However, while DRAM, flash memory, and other chips are ranking in the money, thousands of workers are going on an indefinite strike and independent research predicts that its worldwide market share in chip manufacturing will tumble from 31% to just 9% by 2032.

It’s fair to say that Samsung Electronics, the chip manufacturing and electronics division of the Samsung Group, is going through some mixed fortunes of late. AI’s insatiable appetite for high-end RAM and flash memory chips has pushed prices by as much as 20% in the second quarter of the financial year (via Reuters).

Although that growth has subsided, it still resulte…

If you like collecting Steam trading cards but aren’t really interested in bashing through your Steam discovery queue on a daily basis to pick them up during Steam sales, the SteamDB browser extension now makes it easy to score the reward without doing the work.

The SteamDB extension is available for Firefox, Chrome, and Edge, and it does a lot of good things, like displaying a game’s lowest recorded price, showing concurrent player counts, automatically accepting the subscriber agreement on purchase pages, and a whole bunch of other stuff.

I’m a pretty well committed Augmented Steam user and not terribly inclined to change, but a newly-added feature in the SteamDB extension has me thinking about maybe running them both. (Yes, the interface gets a little crowded, but it’s wo…