Rechargeable lithium-ion cells power almost every aspect of our portable lives, as they can be found in practically every smartwatch, phone, laptop, and handheld gaming PC. We use them constantly and rarely experience problems, but given how much energy they store, when they do go wrong, you need to get them replaced pronto. That’s exactly…
Making plans for Nigel. It may be all about Lando Norris and Lewis Hamilton these days, but back in 1992, Nigel Mansell was the British F1 driver of choice. After years of working for Lotus, Ferrari, and Williams, he secured his one and only F1 World Championship with the latter team in 1992, recording a…
GSC Game World continues to juggle the patch process for four separate games in the wake of last May’s release of the Stalker Enhanced Trilogy—the uprezzed remasters of the original X-Ray Engine games—which left it not only firefighting the myriad issues present in Stalker 2, but also handling the various fan disgruntlements around the new…
The Blood of Dawnwalker has been announced as the next project from Rebel Wolves, offering an open-world RPG set in medieval Europe. But, rather than being your standard sword-swinging adventure, there’s a significant twist. You will play as Coen, someone plagued with being half-human and half-vampire—known as the “Dawnwalker”—and you best believe that there’s a…
Discounted eShop credit, subs, and games. Summer has arrived in the northern hemisphere, and what better way to enjoy it than sitting in the shade with a glass of something cool — possibly with a novelty straw sticking out the top — and relaxing with a Switch? Whether you’re still rocking the OG Switch or…
A new Steam update has released the in-game performance monitor that was previously in beta, essentially a jazzed-up version of the platform’s old frame counter with more features and granularity. The performance monitor can be switched on in Steam settings, and renders over your game, providing information on how your rig’s performing and the impact…
An update to Nvidia’s official “Unix graphics feature deprecation schedule” has been spotted on Reddit. Long story short, the next 580 series of Unix GPU drivers will be the last to fully support Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta architectures. So, what does this actually mean for gamers? For instance, does it imply that the days are…
Over the course of the weekend just gone, a new bill was signed by the Governor of Texas. Hardly newsworthy, of course, but the legislation passed into law was that of the right to repair electronics—something that only six other states have done. And perhaps even more importantly, the decision was entirely unanimous, with not…
Backyard Baseball ’01 drops July 8th. Playground Productions and Mega Cat Studios’ announced yesterday that they will bringing Humungous Entertainment’s classic sports title Backyard Baseball ’01 to Steam and mobile devices (iOS and Android) on July 8th. Backyard Baseball ’01 was the fourth installment in the Backyard Sports series and the first to feature Major…
It’s impossible to deny the simple pleasures of a mech battler, suiting up and blasting other players in either a hulking tank or a nimble fighter jet. Amazing Seasun Games’ Mecha Break is no exception, though you’ll have to figure out its global release times before you can hop into the pilot’s seat yourself. Below,…