Few ideas have as universal an appeal as the space bounty hunter: a character archetype that blends all the best bits of wandering ronin and western gunslingers and gives them a cool spaceship and a jetpack. But while almost everyone wants to be Boba Fett, videogames have given us few chances to live out that…

I have this uneasy feeling that, in a different life, I was a speedrunner. Not because I’m doing the videogame equivalent of ‘I could paint that’ at an art exhibit, but because whenever I sit down to play one of these games, I wind up glued to my screen for an hour in a self-perfecting…

Give it up, everyone, for the first laptop based on Intel’s portentous Panther Lake CPU, the Acer Swift 16 AI. Acer has been showing off the new portable at the IFA 2025 show despite the fact that the new laptop isn’t due to go on sale until early next year. Panther Lake, of course, is…

The Outer Worlds, Obsidian’s more-anti-corporate-than-anti-capitalist RPG, is set for a sequel. To hear our own Ted Litchfield tell it, that sequel might even be quite good. But there’s an irony here, isn’t there? The Outer Worlds 1 was conceived of in a whole other era, before Obsidian was snapped up by Microsoft (though it did…

When I reviewed The Edge of Fate, I had plenty of issues with the new direction Destiny 2 was taking. The expansion itself was… fine—a few highlights, but mostly unremarkable. The more pressing issue was the Portal, the new hub for Destiny 2’s seasonal power grind. Still, I figured I’d give it a chance. Maybe…

Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone, who said in April that he’s “committed to not working on Stardew Valley until I’m done with Haunted Chocolatier,” announced last week that he’s working on Stardew Valley again. Well, hey, these things happen. But the good news (aside from more Stardew Valley) is that while Haunted Chocolatier might take…