While Magic: The Gathering’s big crossovers with things like Final Fantasy and Spider-Man might be stealing the spotlight lately, the next set in the line-up is already storming toward us. Tarkir: Dragonstorm…
The best second-screen apps for watching Major League Baseball
When Major League Baseball starts its 2025 season on March 27, you can enhance your big-screen game-watching experience by enlisting the aid of your small screen; i.e., your smartphone or tablet laptop….
Assassin’s Creed Shadows Review
It’s wild that it took almost 20 years and dozens of games for the biggest stealth action series around to finally bend towards feudal Japan. Assassin’s Creed Shadows makes the most of…
Half-Life 2 RTX Remix Developers Respond to Concern From Some Fans That It Ruins the Original Game’s Atmosphere
The hotly anticipated Half-Life 2 RTX launches its demo today, March 18, and IGN sat down with its developers to discuss how they reimagined Valve’s 20-year-old masterpiece using Nvidia’s RTX Remix tech,…
HP unveils ultra-light OmniBook 7 Aero laptop with Ryzen AI CPU
If I had a nickel for every time I went to an NYC press event and got blown away by a super-light laptop, I’d have two nickels over the last four months….
HyperX’s Cloud III S headset brings 200 hours of battery on Bluetooth
I use a HyperX Cloud Alpha Wireless as my personal PC headset, specifically because its battery life is bonkers at 300 hours. But it’s a bit barebones otherwise. It’s only 2.4GHz with…
Boss of Baldur’s Gate 3 Dev Larian Says Single-Player Games Aren’t Dead: ‘They Just Have to Be Good’
One of the oldest discourses in the gaming space has circled around again: the question of whether big single-player games are “dead.” This time, Larian Studios CEO Swen Vincke, who spearheaded development…
SteamOS update preps for third-party handhelds beyond the Steam Deck
SteamOS is coming to PC handhelds other than Valve’s own Steam Deck. We heard a short but official confirmation last year, and then Lenovo confirmed a SteamOS-flavored version of its new Legion…
Samsung 9100 Pro review: Return of the SSD king
At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Fastest benchmarking NVMe SSD we’ve tested. DRAM for fast random operations Available in up to 4GB capacities, and soon 8TB Cons Expensive overkill for most users…
Roku’s latest ad experiment just blew up in its face
So, what kinds of streaming ads will you tolerate? Maybe a 60-second commercial break in the middle of a show? Pause ads? A static ad on the home screen? There’s a range…