World of Warcraft players are already discovering new tech with its player housing—turns out, you can sit anywhere as long as you’re able to fit a chair inside

World of Warcraft‘s player housing has hit the live servers—as long as you’ve purchased Midnight—and players are already having a blast making all kinds of nonsense. Also, they’ve found out secret, illicit (not really) wizard tech for being able to sit anywhere. I’m a smidge late to the game here, as this was already discovered…

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Good news and good news: Meta is reportedly hard at work on the Quest 4 and has delayed its mixed reality glasses to 2027

Meta has reportedly pushed back the release of its mixed reality (MR) glasses, codenamed “Phoenix”, to 2027. That’s despite having already spent billions of dollars on projects for digitally enhancing our everyday world. On the plus side, we have received more information on the next Quest headset. Allegedly stated in two internal memos seen by…

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Starsand Island is a warm, familiar farming sim hug that comes with all of the weird jank that seems to haunt 3D cosy games

One day the well of dead videogame granddads with overgrown plots of farmland will dry up, but today is not that day. Starsand Island is full of those fuzzy cosy farming sim familiarities,. Despite it doing almost nothing new, I “one more’d” myself through all 10 days of its extended press demo anyway. Starsand Island…

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Windows is rolling out the ability to handle all app updates from just your OS, but with limited support right now

Good news, an actually good Windows update is here. But it likely won’t be useful for a while. Still, the foundation has been laid for your apps to update themselves thanks to the introduction of the Unified Update Orchestration Platform (UOP). The UOP will “download and install updates based on user activity and system state”….

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Beyerdynamic DT 270 Pro review

Beyerdynamic is no stranger to our list of best gaming headphones and for good reason. Its MMX 330 Pro cans are supremely comfortable, the open-back design with STELLAR.45 drivers makes games, music, and everything in between sound phenomenal. But it’s not perfect. Aside from the obvious lack of microphone for game chat, it’s also not…

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Beyerdynamic DT 270 Pro review

Beyerdynamic is no stranger to our list of best gaming headphones and for good reason. Its MMX 330 Pro cans are supremely comfortable, the open-back design with STELLAR.45 drivers makes games, music, and everything in between sound phenomenal. But it’s not perfect. Aside from the obvious lack of microphone for game chat, it’s also not…

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Baldur’s Gate 3 fan discovers the game has nearly 237 hours of spoken dialogue in it—and a whopping 14 hours are narrator Amelia Tyler’s alone, though Astarion gives her a run for her money

Baldur’s Gate 3 has dialogue. A LOT of dialogue. Heaping, great stonking helpings of dialogue. This was to be known already, given the sheer volume of NPCs you talk to when you’re running around in the thing—’tis a fact that is self-evident. But did you know exactly how much spoken dialogue, down to the very…

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