May 2025

Lae’zel is a lot of things—a proud warrior of Vlaakith, a fierce combatant, and a genuinely impressive character, able to grapple with her faith and still come out determined to do things the right way. Turns out, her voice actor shares that determination. In a recent interview with ReadyAimFire, Devora Wilde tells two understandably-astonished interviewers…

Alienware has just announced a couple of new gaming laptops that go by ‘Aurora’ and have a rather simple and clean design. We’re talking rounded corners, a single, simple logo, a “chamfered” (sloping) front edge for one-handed opening, and no thermal shelf at the rear. I quite like it, but I know some find such…

The power of nostalgia is an incredible thing. It can make you really crave spaghetti hoops after a hard day’s work, it can make you feel like a kid when you get a whiff of a scent that you can’t quite place, and it can make you restart Minecraft for the tenth time, only to…

When folks talk about transparent hardware, I’m sure I’m not the only one whose frame of reference is still stuck somewhere between the mid-90s and the early oughts. Besides sleuthing with Barbie on the family desktop, my earliest gaming memories involved affixing my tiny mitts to my semi-transparent Game Boy Color. For a hot second…

The last time I played Frostpunk 2, I was about a hair’s breadth away from a political breakdown. I had somehow managed to anger every faction. I fell behind on promises I made to pass laws, and every time I get something done I end up pissing off more people than I impress. In the…