I love the 8BitDo Retro C64 keyboard but I’d pick its cheaper NES-themed model near its lowest price ever during Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

8BitDo Retro Mechanical Keyboard (N Edition) | Hot swappable | 2.4 GHz, Bluetooth, and wired connection | ‘Super Buttons’ | 200-hour battery life | $99.99 $79.99 at Amazon (save $20)Already reasonably priced at full MSRP, this TKL keyboard has a great aesthetic, powerful battery life, nice feeling keys, and Super Buttons, which you can program…

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From pixels to pinot: The Windows XP ‘Bliss’ wallpaper hill was real and this is what it looks like now

Windows XP was the most blissful iteration of Microsoft’s ubiquitous operating system. That’s an objective, empirical, placebo-controlled, peer-reviewed, double-blind fact. After all, it’s arguably most famous for its signature “Bliss” wallpaper depicting a rolling green hill, deep blue sky and little fluffy clouds. But whatever happened to that hill? Was it actually real? And if…

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Introducing More In-Game Benefits for Free-to-Play Games with Game Pass

Category: Announcements March 26, 2025 Introducing More In-Game Benefits for Free-to-Play Games with Game Pass Steve MaslineProduct Marketing Manager, Xbox Starting this week, we’re rolling out even more value to Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass members with in-game benefits for free-to-play games. Members will get items like cosmetics, characters, in-game currency, and more…

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Publishers ‘don’t want to be anywhere near’ Grand Theft Auto 6 when it launches: ‘It’s proving to be very stressful’

Grand Theft Auto 6 is still months away from launch, if not longer, but it’s already causing ripples in the games industry. Numerous major publishers are fretting over precisely when Rockstar’s latest crime epic will arrive, so they can schedule their games around its release and thus avoid the financial black hole they believe it…

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PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for April: RoboCop: Rogue City, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth – Hacker’s Memory

PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for April: RoboCop: Rogue City, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth – Hacker’s Memory

Protect the streets of Detroit, survive a family of horror icons, and turn digital detective with April’s PlayStation Plus Monthly Games lineup. RoboCop: Rogue City, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth – Hacker’s Memory will be available to PlayStation Plus members from April 1.  Let’s take a closer look at the games. …

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Become Dragonforged, achieve dominance

Looking for a gaming laptop and only the best will do? Then you should be looking at MSI. The company, famous for its high-performance PC gear from motherboards to laptops, has refreshed its gaming portable range with new models sporting NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 50 Series Laptop graphics chips, bringing innovative features and unparalleled performance. And…

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Wildgate: A Deep Space Dive into Moonshot’s Crew-Based Shooter

Category: Games March 26, 2025 Wildgate: A Deep Space Dive into Moonshot’s Crew-Based Shooter Christine Ansell, Senior Community Manager, Moonshot Games Summary Wildgate was unveiled earlier this week as part of the Dreamhaven Showcase. Engage in crew-based PvP combat with epic shootouts and spaceship battles. Wildgate arrives on Xbox Series X|S later this year, with…

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