Should your Windows machine run into major difficulties, you may find yourself staring at a blue screen. No, not the infamous Blue Screen of Death (which has since changed to the Black Screen of… Death), but the Windows Recovery Environment, or WinRE for short. Here you can repair startup issues, access the command prompt, and…
Future Future Future This year’s Computex has followed the usual theme of oddball excess, and while that’s perhaps not totally appropriate for today’s climate, it does allow vendors to showcase something rather unusual. In the case of Montech’s new PC case, though, the design is so oddball that I genuinely blinked and shook my head…
Horror games don’t have to be action-packed thrillers to be fun. Some of my favourites (or least favourite, depending on how you look at it) have been quiet journeys full of tension and anticipation with minimal fights—games like Amnesia: The Bunker or Little Nightmares. But there is a line between a psychological horror game and…
Capcom’s million-selling series, ranked. Capcom’s Street Fighter is now over 35 years old, and following the launch of the most recent entry, Street Fighter 6, it felt as good a time as any to ask the most important of questions: no, not “What’s the meaning of life?” or “Why do I only have odd socks…
In what may be a land speed record for highlighting the inadequacy of a PC port, modder Serge has published a small tool for the new Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection ports that enables them to run at 4K or other resolutions. Despite Konami’s confusing claims over the last few months, players learned today that…
Category: Games February 26, 2026 The Chicken’s Guide to Surviving Resident Evil Requiem Jeff Rubenstein You’ll never catch me watching a Saw movie. I don’t need even one night at Freddy’s to know it’s not for me. I wouldn’t even drive past Elm Street. And yet – I’ve played every single mainline Resident Evil game going back to the original in 1996 – including Resident Evil Requiem (available tonight for Xbox Series X|S). It’s easily one of my…
Efficiency gains are often cited as the reason to bring more AI into the workplace, though concerns over resulting job losses are never far behind. It might surprise you, then, to learn that the head of Google DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, actually thinks job cuts caused by AI are not the way forward. Today’s wealth of…
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved Bitcoin exchange-traded products (ETPs) following years of opposition—though not without stern warnings about the “myriad risks” of investing in cryptocurrency. The news was greeted with enthusiasm by crypto-lovers and has led to a minor spike in Bitcoin’s value, with one Bitcoin being worth around $44,000 on…
There are annoying ways to lose a game of Magic: The Gathering. When a red aggro deck full of creatures with haste demolishes you by turn three, for instance. Or when a blue control deck counters everything you try, just turn after turn of “nope” until they finally get around to finishing you off. But…
Halo Infinite’s next big update is coming January 30 with a new arena map, a new operation, a free Mark IV Spartan core, and the long-awaited ability to equip shoulder pieces on any armor. 343 showed off the update, which also includes new Covenant items in Forge, in a livestream today. It looks like a…