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Shujaat Ahmed

Shujaat Ahmed is the founder and editor of Door To Gaming. A lifelong gamer, he writes about the games, hardware, and industry news he cannot stop thinking about.

79 articles · Writing here since May 2026

Topics: Games Hardware Industry News Gaming Technology

Recent articles

  • Same Seed, Different World: Why Minecraft Terrain Changes After an Upgrade — A Minecraft seed is only one of three inputs — the game version and the world settings matter just as much. In an upgraded world, old chunks never change, new ones use new rules, and since 1.18 they blend at the border. Every reason the same seed gives different terrain, how to check which one you hit, and what can be restored.
  • Friends Can’t Join Your Minecraft 26.3 Server? It’s the Whitelist — Since Minecraft Java 26.3, a new server starts with its whitelist switched on, so friends who are not on it are turned away — while the host, as an operator, walks straight in. The two-command fix, who the change affects, and what to check if friends still cannot join.
  • GTA 6 Is About 210 GB. Here Is What That Means for Your Console — GTA 6 is reported at about 210 GB on PS5 — a third of an original PS5 and more than half of a Series S. Preload opens November 12, and the boxed edition is a download code, not a disc, so everyone downloads it. How much space to clear, how long the download takes on your connection, and what is still unconfirmed.
  • Is the Verity Mod Real? The One in the Videos Isn’t. These Two Are — The Verity in ThatMob’s videos was a scripted horror film — there was never anything to download. Official versions now exist for Java and Bedrock on CurseForge, with over 13 million downloads between them. Which one is real, where to get it, and the thing most guides skip: both send what you type to an online AI.
  • The Box Says 1 TB. Here Is How Many Games Actually Fit — Every console loses 15–29% of its advertised storage before you install a game: a 1 TB Series X leaves 802 GB, a Series S just 364. With big games now 70–150 GB, that is four or five on most consoles and two on a Series S. The real numbers, how many games fit, and the one habit that decides whether you need more.
  • Steam Says 37 MB/s on Your 300 Mbps Plan. That Is Full Speed — Your plan is sold in megabits per second; Steam shows megabytes. A byte is 8 bits, so a 300 Mbps line running flat out reads 37.5 MB/s — which looks like an eighth of what you pay for and is all of it. How long a 100 GB game should really take, and the five things to check, in order, when your download genuinely is slow.
  • Cheap Game Keys: The Discount Usually Beats the Risk. Here Is When It Does Not — WARDOGS buyers lost the game from their Steam libraries this month, weeks after their keys worked. A key from G2A or Eneba can be switched off after you have played it. The arithmetic says the gamble usually pays anyway — a discount stays cheaper until the chance of revocation equals it. The question is which listings carry the risk, and they are recognisable.
  • Xbox Cloud Gaming Gets Hour Limits in November. 15 Hours Is 30 Minutes a Day. — From November, Game Pass Ultimate includes 15 hours of cloud play a month, Premium 10 and Essential 5 — 30, 20 and 10 minutes a day. Microsoft says 4% of subscribers are affected, and that is probably true; the question is which 4%. What changes, from Microsoft’s own pages, who it lands on, and how GeForce NOW’s 100 hours compares.
  • The Game Pass Break-Even Everyone Computes Is Half the Real One — Subscription divided by $70 a game gives you a break-even of about four games a year, and it is wrong — almost nothing in these catalogues is a game you would have bought on release day. Divide by what you would actually have paid and the number roughly doubles. Plus two things the platforms say on their own pages: PlayStation Plus has no day-one tier at any price, and Game Pass Ultimate excludes Call of Duty from its day-one promise.
  • GTA 6 on PC: Wait, or Buy It on Console? Rockstar's Own Record Answers It — GTA 6 launches on 19 November with no PC version announced. Rockstar has made PC players wait between 7 and 19 months before, which puts a PC release somewhere from mid-2027 to mid-2028 — later than the rumour. And if you buy on console, the PS5 Pro may look best without playing any better.
  • SteamOS or Windows? Check One List Before You Read a Single Benchmark — Every comparison is about battery, frame rate and the interface, and SteamOS wins three of the four. None of that is the decision. The decision is a short list of games whose publishers have refused Linux — Fortnite, Valorant, Apex, Siege, Call of Duty, Battlefield 6 — and whether any of them are yours. Two minutes against your library settles it; then the benchmarks matter.
  • Your Frame Rate Is Worse After an Hour. That Isn't Your Imagination. — Same settings, same scene, same machine — and an hour in it runs worse. Nothing has gone wrong: your heatsink started cold, and the number on the counter at minute two was never going to survive to minute sixty. What GPU Boost is actually doing, what a 10% clock loss costs you, why reviews cannot show it, and why undervolting removes far more heat than it looks like it should.

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