February 2025

Something that I have always deeply adored about the Monster Hunter series is the fact that you can play the entire game in its own made up language, sporting the very unornamented name Monster Hunter Language. Well, you could, anyway. Much to my dismay, as Monster Hunter Wilds executive director Kaname Fujioka revealed to me…

Hidden amidst harsh sands and deadly dreamthralls, the Totem of Revelations locations in Avowed‘s third major region of Shatterscarp are much harder to stumble upon than their counterparts in Dawnshore and Emerald Stair. However, the Eyes of the Obscured provides some of the best perks of the bunch, especially for mages, so it’s worth finding…

Yeyian Tanto | Core i5 13400F | RTX 4060 | 16 GB DDR5-5600 | 1 TB SSD | $1,099 $779.99 at Newegg (save $319.01)The Yeyian Tanto fairly often comes in at this budget price range and knocks its competition out the water, and it’s done so again here. In a price bracket where you usually…

I have a slightly unusual surname. It’s no biggie, just something I have to go over a few times with every customer service representative I’ve ever spoken to over the phone. No, not Edson, Edsert, or Edsner. E-D-S-E-R. Still, spare a thought for those with the last name “Null”, as apparently it still breaks web…

A recent update to Twitch’s enforcement system saw the process of punishing violations change. Instead of maintaining strikes against your account indefinitely, they will now disappear after various lengths of time to “reduce the risk that streamers lose their communities and livelihoods for low severity violations.” Despite only 4% of active streamers receiving any sort…

Unless you’ve been under a rock somewhere (I wouldn’t blame you, mind) you’re probably aware that World of Warcraft put on its big boots and announced three expansions in 2023. This is downright unprecedented. Even games that plan big, multi-expansion story arcs like Final Fantasy 14 will keep their next expansion tucked under wraps to…

If you’re someone who spends a lot of time gaming and using the same rig to grind through demanding content creation tasks, you might be holding off buying a PC upgrade until the reviews of AMD’s forthcoming Ryzen 9 9950X3D go online. But if you’re as impatient as one particular system builder, pretty much everything…