New MIT research opens the door to faster-charging and longer-lasting batteries, and it could be implemented right away

Whether it’s a handheld PC, gaming laptop, or something much larger like a car, we all want batteries that can charge much quicker, store more energy, and last longer before wearing out. Until now, most advances in these areas have been discovered through trial and error, but a newly developed mathematical model, backed by experimental…

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Vampire Survivors-like Megabonk makes megabucks, selling a million copies in 2 weeks, and currently has more daily players than Borderlands 4 on Steam: ‘I’ll be eating spaghetti with EXTRA sauce tonight’

Our appetite for games like Vampire Survivors—dropping you into reverse bullet hells where your very existence is enough to slaughter wave after wave of enemies—has so far been unquenchable. We’ve slurped down Brotato, Halls of Torment, Soulstone Survivors, Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor, but it doesn’t sound like we’re even close to done. The good news…

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The new My Hero Academia game will finally let you live out the fantasy of playing through the anime’s big moments, but I’m still waiting for the Persona-style school sim

My Hero Academia, one of the most popular manga/anime series of the last decade, is about a bunch of super-powered high school kids going to class while training to be heroes. Persona, one of the most popular videogame series of the last decade, is about a bunch of high school kids with supernatural abilities going…

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Warhammer doesn’t need to be an expensive hobby: Poorhammer is here to save your wallet

Go by official prices and you’ll get the wrong idea about how expensive it is to get into Warhammer. None of the armies being brought out weekly at my local wargame club cost full price. Between third-party retailers, mail-order discounters, Facebook marketplace, secondhand stores, bootleg Chinese recasts, 3d-printing, and going halfsies on a boxed set…

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The most anticipated FPS of the year is scoring points by recognizing a simple truth: people want performance more than ray tracing

FOV 90 (Image credit: Future) Welcome to FOV 90, an FPS column from staff writer Morgan Park. Every week, I’ll be covering a topic relevant to first-person shooter enjoyers, spanning everything from multiplayer and singleplayer to the old and the new. It sucks to acknowledge, but we’re living in a new age of crappy PC…

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