The 16-inch gaming laptop is a wonderful invention. The slightly larger screen over a 15.6-inch model, made even wider thanks to modern slim bezels, looks great, and allows for a chassis that’s just that tiny bit roomier, so we get full-size keys, numpads, even speakers. They’re not as ridiculous as 18-inch laptops—those silly machines—and you…
Developer Iron Gate Studios released Valheim into early access almost exactly five years ago, and the finish line may finally now be in sight: work on the survival game’s final biome is underway and the launch on PlayStation and Switch 2 is planned for 2026. While there’s been no official word, I wouldn’t be surprised…
“You are poor and bald. Get to work,” reads the simple description of Get to Work, a game that is a metaphor for climbing the corporate ladder that also a game where you are a guy with rollerblades on his hands and feet and little wheeled pads on his knees and elbows who can only…
As much as I love throwing myself into the depths of ravines on a desperate hunt for diamonds, or trekking to the Nether and immediately plunging into lava, sometimes I think Minecraft needs to chill out a bit. There are only so many times a creeper can blow up your house before you go into…
Top Deal: When it comes to solid state drives, if you’re of the opinion that it’s either go big or go home, then you’re in luck. Today’s top deal is for a Mushkin Enhanced Reactor 1TB SSD for $360 with $1 shipping. That works out to about $0.36 per gigabyte, one of the lowest prices…
For years, one of the most spiritually potent images on the internet was Multi-Track Drifting: It’s a pair of double-page splash panels from the doujin parody manga Densha de D, depicting with mythic intensity a singular moment of locomotive stuntcraft. During a virtual preview event, developer Undercoders said it’s channeling that same spirit of train…
The Steam Frame is here and it’s one of the best VR headsets I’ve ever had attached to my face, just don’t ask me about the price. But when we spoke to two of the people at Valve who helped create the device—Joy Lyons and Jeremy Selan—they told me the company actually had its new…
Full Metal Schoolgirl is an exhilarating action-shooting game in which machine girls, armed and mechanized from head to toe, storm a giant exploitative corporation and wreak havoc with non-stop shooting and slashing. Two cyborg high school girls rise up to destroy Meternal Jobz, an evil corporation that rules over Japan in a not-so-distant future. The…
A little graphics card with big performance Size doesn’t matter when it comes to graphics cards, hence why we’ve seen some powerful options for mini ITX form factor systems. And come August, AMD will release its Radeon R9 Nano, yet another option in the mini ITX sector. AMD confirmed the August launch during an earnings…
If you can cast your mind back to last week, you’ll recall a Palworld bug that saw Lifmunk Effigies, which are supposed to increase your chances of successfully catching Pals, seemingly decreasing those odds instead. It was a minor scandal that saw players pull out their calculators to verify that—yep—their chances of catching Pals while…