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Oct 19, 2026Once every generation, a genre-defining title emerges and becomes the benchmark for the others that follow. And every once in a while, that benchmark remains unbeaten for years, long after the hardware that first ran it has been retired, and the stud...
Oct 19, 2026So I'm trying to escape Fedora. It's not because I don't like Fedora (I do), and it's not because I hate Red Hat (I don't). It's because Fedora was only the second Linux distro I took seriously. The first was Linux Mint, which convinced me that Linux...
Oct 19, 2026Bigger than the ones in Elden Ring, for what it's worth. ### At a glance - The rough prototype looks to have been binned early in development, and it's largely avoided discussion before Doneda's work. - Some portions appear to have been part of an...
Oct 19, 2026Here for a good time and a loud time. Volume.art is a nice, free, cool thing on the internet, and I just think that's something worth celebrating these days. The microgame collection sees you manipulating volume sliders through various abstracted, s...
Oct 19, 2026What is the PS5X Emulator for Xbox Series X and how does it work? In a YouTube video that went live on September 8, developer Devran Cosmo Uenal booted the PlayStation 5 version of Quake II on an Xbox Series X and played it with an Xbox controller. ...
Oct 18, 2026Most people should never buy a sound card, and I'll say that to anyone planning a new PC. Apart from the odd old game that still misses a 20-year-old sound card, onboard audio got good, headsets went USB, and sound cards quietly became a niche. Yet e...
Oct 18, 2026My Asus TUF Gaming AX4200 moved its 5GHz radio to a new channel 11 times in two weeks. I felt almost every one as a frozen video call, a buffering show, or a smart plug going offline. The cause was the 160MHz channel width, the setting that can doub...
Oct 18, 2026Using your phone to phone home. The Slate truck doesn't just lack an infotainment system. The base version of the EV also skips a radio, speakers, power windows and even a paint job (hello, vinyl). But without built-in cellular, the truck can still ...
Oct 18, 2026Roku's remote is straightforward, except for its multi-purpose star button. A Roku system's remote control is one of the most straightforward remote designs you'll find. The function behind nearly every button is clear from its icon, except for one:...
Oct 18, 2026There's really no escaping now. The team behind the hit horror card game Inscryption shared some exciting news this weekend in celebration of its fifth anniversary: a mobile version is on the way. The announcement came during an official Twitch stre...
Oct 18, 2026Apple's image generation tool got some noteworthy updates this fall. Sometimes, a text exchange with a friend calls for a super specific image to express a thought. It's the kind of image that you can't find in the legion of emoji on your phone, or ...
Oct 18, 2026If you have trouble getting apps to scale properly on your foldable, read on. The extra screen real estate that comes with the design of a foldable phone can be pretty enticing. Whether you're looking to play games, watch videos or read, a foldable ...