Players’ Choice: Vote for the best new game of July 2020

‘Sorry I can’t hear you over the roar of the Sunwell’: World of Warcraft players beg Blizzard to turn the volume down on the giant crackling beam in the sky

World of Warcraft: Midnight is the first time players have had a real reason to return to the elven city of Silvermoon since it was released in 2007. Many players, including me, find the expanded version to be a beautiful update to an iconic location in Azeroth. We also all agree that Blizzard needs to…

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‘It really truly changed my life in every possible way’: Lady Dimitrescu actor says her Resident Evil Village role was just as transformative for her as it was for roughly half the internet in 2021

Lady Dimitrescu first appeared in a January 2021 teaser trailer that quickly cemented Resident Evil Village’s place in the public consciousness as “the game with the big vampire lady.” She swept the hearts, minds, and creative outputs of hordes of fan artists with such ferocity that I’m still not sure whether I could safely do…

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Shadow the Hedgehog is supposed to be dead

It’s hard to imagine Sonic the Hedgehog without his Jungian counterpart: the gun-toting, swear-uttering Shadow the Hedgehog. But Shadow is a relatively late addition to the series’ extensive roster of anthropomorphic animals, debuting long after the Genesis days in Sonic Adventure 2—more than that, he was never supposed to stick around. According to a report…

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Classic Psychonauts Comes to PS4 This Spring

We’re super excited to announce that our classic PS2 platformer Psychonauts is heading to PS4 this spring! Psychonauts follows the story of a young psychic named Razputin in his quest to join an elite group of international psychic secret agents, the Psychonauts! He runs away from the circus and breaks into their secret training facility,…

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The Changing Networking Standards

Your new Internet connection, and the tech powering it Internet speeds have been on a steady increase for decades now. While users were at first satisfied with dialup speeds, this was supplanted by DSL and cable modem, bringing faster speeds over existing copper networks. To offer even more blisteringly fast performance, attention then turned to…

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HP Omen Max 16 gaming laptop review

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…

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