Although my mental conception of time is convinced it came out perhaps three weeks ago, Nightdive’s System Shock remake is three years old. The game released in 2023 after a long and winding road through development, consisting of various course corrections and reboots. All in all, it was eight years between the game’s announcement—originally as…
Though I do wear glasses and I’m intrigued by the idea of techie wearables on paper, I’m far from all-in on AR glasses. Still, depending on how Qualcomm’s fresh chip geared towards augmented and virtual reality headgear is implemented, I can see myself changing my mind. Qualcomm has just revealed the Snapdragon Reality Elite, a…
Category: Games June 18, 2026 How The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales Balances Exploration, Combat, and Discovery Shez Sheikh, PR Manager, Square Enix Summary The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales blends exploration, combat, and progression into a discovery-driven action RPG adventure. Start your adventure off right with six tips and tricks from the…
I recently had the chance to test two different Melgeek keyboards at the same time. They are the space-themed Centauri 80 and the black and gold Real 81. Though they’re made by the same company, they couldn’t be more different in approach. The Centauri 80 is heavy, flashy, with a built-in OLED screen, and it…
And it’s all thanks to Baseball. The latest sales data from Japan is in thanks to Famitsu, and Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream has finally been knocked from its perch by none other than Powerful Pro Baseball 2026-2026. The latest Konami entry is a big hit over in Japan, shifting a total of 100,976 units…
According to one PC peripheral YouTuber, some of the best gaming mice on the market that use the latest sensors aren’t sticking at the DPI they’re set to (via MouseCast). At least, not when moved at a very slow speed. An X user noted the problem a couple of years ago, pointing out the problematic…
At its State of Unreal event in Chicago, Epic Games officially unveiled Unreal Engine 5.8, and one of its key new features is Lumen Lite: a scalability setting that targets the use of ray-traced global illumination for the Nintendo Switch 2, with the goal of 60 fps. As the feature also works for PCs, I…
After a standard spell in beta, the latest iteration of SteamOS—Valve’s Arch-based Linux distro for use on Steam Deck, Steam Machine, and Steam Frame—has hit the big three-eight. Or, well, three-point-eight. SteamOS 3.8 is out, is what I’m saying, and if you turn your face to the wind and inhale, you can detect the first…
There is something quietly vertiginous about walking through an exhibition and finding yourself already inside it. Not a self you remember putting there, but a self distributed across objects, images, words; a self that arrived in the museum before you did, and which now looks back at you from behind glass. This happened to me…
Anyone who has ripped open a fresh booster pack knows the feeling. There’s the slight resistance of the foil, the quick fan of the cards, and that little jolt of suspense before the rare one either shows up or doesn’t. Video game trading cards — whether it’s a holo Charizard from the classic Pokémon TCG,…