2026

I’m no mage or alchemist, but I must admit I’m a bit confused as to why you need azure kelp, of all things, to craft a teleporter in Hytale. Below, I’ll go over exactly where you need to look to find azure kelp in your world so you can get to crafting your own time-saving…

Here’s one that didn’t show up on the CES 2026 show floor. Asus has some new dual-mode 4K monitors with uprated, higher-refresh 1080p modes. We’ve seen plenty of 4K dual-mode monitors before. But thus far, the 1080p alt mode has run at precisely twice the refresh rate of the panel’s native 4K setting. But now…

Think twice (or ideally, three times) before clicking on LinkedIn links, as researchers have spotted bad actors using them to hide malicious code in seemingly innocuous files. As reported by The Hacker News, ReliaQuest recently spotted a phishing scam that prompts a user to download a self-extracting archive. It reportedly comes with deceptive names like…

World of Warcraft is tackling combat mods (addons) in the pre-patch coming this week. In theory, this update is only designed to hamstring addons that provide a concrete advantage in combat. In practice, there are plenty of other mods getting caught in the crossfire. Like poor Peggle Classic, a six-year-old addon with almost 600,000 downloads…

As a 32-year-old senior citizen, I still remember what the state of internet discourse looked like around the time The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion came out. Most people liked the game, sure, but what was going on with that engine? Why were these animations so weird? The combat so floaty? Why is my character’s face…