The Battlefield 6 open beta is imminent, and for the most part, it really is an open beta. EA is running the playtest for two weekends, but there are a handful of ways to get two days of early access. If you signed up for Battlefield Labs before July 31, you’ll automatically be granted access…
16th time’s a charm, as the saying goes. Fan-made portable N64 systems aren’t a new thing – we’ve been seeing them for years, if not decades by this point. Modding veteran Downing’s Basement has produced 15 previous takes on the concept alone, but he’s back with the GeN64 – his 16th attempt, and the best…
AI is everywhere at Computex. Obviously. It’s been like this for the past three years, where those two characters have become so ubiquitous around any tech show or presentation by any hardware or software company that I’ve become almost inured to it. But it’s a big reason about why we can’t have nice things. It’s…
The infamous Blue Screen of Death feels like it’s always there, waiting. The scourge of PC gamers and IT workers alike, it lurks in the distance, seemingly anticipating the right moment to ruin your day. Now Microsoft has announced that it’s previewing a “more streamlined UI for unexpected restarts” in the latest Windows Insider build—and…
Amazon Japan has recently put up a listing on the site for Apex Legends Champion Edition for Nintendo Switch. The special edition of the free-to-play video game has a release date of 2nd February which reconfirms the previously announced and delisted date from the Apex Legends Japanese YouTube channel. EA hasn’t officially announced a release…
Minecraft started 2025 off with a bang by adding falling leaves, new flowers, and the absolute pinnacle of development, different pig variations. Now, instead of just having the boring old pink pig in your farm, you can also keep the cold pig and the warm pig in the pen alongside it. There have been pigs…
In what may be the most metal crossover ever, Bethesda has teamed up with Harley Davidson in creating an incredible one of a kind Doom motorcycle. The bike takes its inspiration from next in the hellishly good series, Doom, in this case, Doom: The Dark Ages; A medieval take on the demonic devastation of Earth….
In business, you expect any corporate message to put the best possible spin on anything, including any comments about company leaders. Nvidia’s corporate blog has really taken this to heart, though, by giving CEO Jen-Hsun Huang such a glowing description that you’d be forgiven for thinking you were on a fan-fiction site. The post in…
Pirate survival game Windrose is a megahit, but after two weeks of sailing the early access seas, a lot of pirates have run out of new discoveries and have fully explored the game’s initial three biomes. Many players are naturally asking: what’s next? And, perhaps as importantly: when? Today developer Kraken Express outlined some of…
I’ve yet to see an LCD monitor with local dimming that I thought was any good. But I have now seen a DIY LCD display with an incredibly clever projector-based backlight solution that demonstrates why so-called HDR monitors with full-array local dimming are, in fact, complete crap. Of course, it’s top-notch YouTube channel DIY Perks…