Thrilling Machine – by Noah LaPointe

When imagining the environmental sounds George Gomez must be used to, it may explain why he doesn’t rest: the erratic flicking of a pinball table’s flippers, the raucous ricocheting of a metal ball desperately trying to escape its containment, and electronic symphonies cheering players on to their next high score. That’s only part of the…

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Logitech Mobi Fold review

The humble mouse has been through some changes in its time. When it’s not adding extra buttons all over the place it’s twisting your wrist into unlikely positions or looking like whatever the Mad Catz RAT was. A general theme over the years, however, is that they’re getting bigger, and perhaps there’s a study to…

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After buying up between $1m and $5m in Dell stock this year, Trump tells everyone to ‘go out and buy a Dell computer’. Again.

At the start of May, president Donald Trump thanked Michael and Susan Dell (yes, those Dells) for donating over $6 billion to ‘Trump Accounts,’ reportedly going toward at least 25 million children in America. In that thank-you speech, he urged listeners to “go out and buy a Dell.” That was after Trump filed that he…

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“We Redefined What A Reskin Can Be” – Super Mario Sunshine Is About To Get A Whole Lot More Relaxing, Thanks To This New Mod

Super Mario Sunset arrives this month! A new mod is about to be released for Super Mario Sunshine, giving the game a relaxing sunset-themed visual makeover, alongside introducing new music, sound effects, and refreshed secrets. Super Mario Sunset is a mod for the 2001 platformer, developed by the modding team Super Mario Elements, who previously…

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It looks like Blizzard’s escaped Xbox’s grim reset scythe for now, though there’s still time to be caught in the second 1600-strong layoff wave coming 2027

The Xbox reset is afoot, and while there aren’t strictly speaking any studio closures yet, with multiple developers in the process of moving elsewhere, the shockwaves from its impact are still being felt across Xbox’s continually-shrinking staff. All in the service of a mathematically improbable 1 billion daily player count, or something. It’s hard to…

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Asus ROG Strix XG129C review

You can’t have too many screens. That’s pretty much been the guiding moral in my life. Enter the new Asus ROG Strix XG129C and a minor existential crisis. This is a screen, but I have to ask—I can’t believe I’m saying this—is there any real point to it? For starters, this “gaming monitor” (Asus’ words,…

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A nasty Windows 11 bug is taking upwards of 500 GB worth of storage, and is surprisingly difficult to spot, but there’s a fix

If you’ve found yourself with much less storage than you otherwise anticipated, to the tune of hundreds of missing gigabytes, there’s a chance you’ve fallen victim to a new Windows 11 bug. That, or you’re not very good at managing your storage (same). As spotted by Windows Latest, this new bug involves the CapabilityAccessManager. This…

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