I spilled a full mug of tea over my work laptop – make me feel better by sharing your own broken PC stories
On Friday, while on the phone to friend of this parish Jeremy Peel, I knocked an entire mug of tea over my laptop. I won't immortalise in text what I said in that moment; it's for the best that those curses are lost to the aether. I immediately shut down ...
Stellar Blade Studio Shift Up Gifts Staff Yet Another Big Bonus, This Time an Apple Watch, AirPods Max, and a $3,400 Cash Bonus
Stellar Blade studio Shift Up has once again given bonuses and gifts worth around $4,000 to its entire team.According to the South Economic Daily, the South Korean studio gifted each of its 300-ish staff a pair of Apple AirPods Max, an Apple Watch, and a cash bonus of around $3,400 ...
RAM may be abominably expensive, but hey, at least SSD prices are also exploding
As we stumble into what increasingly looks like a hardware-unfriendly 2026, RAMnarök shows no signs of petering out. As tech giants continue hoarding memory chips to build their AI farms, and suppliers gleefully jack up their prices in turn, consumer-grade RAM is still laughably expensive – and SSDs, most of ...
‘Awesome Games Done Quick 2026’ Raises $2.44 Million For Charity
Final stream was a speedrun of Pokémon Emerald.The Awesome Games Done Quick 2026 event has now closed with a total of $2.443.554 raised for the Prevent Cancer Foundation.The week-long fundraiser ended with a speedrun for Pokémon Emerald by streamer adef, who managed to beat it in 3 hours and 13 ...
Hytale Dev Expects Over 1 Million Players to Turn Up for Early Access Release Date, Asks Fans to Download the Launcher Now
The developer of Hytale has issued a warning to fans ahead of what is expected to be a hugely popular early access launch tomorrow.Minecraft-esque sandbox game Hytale’s hotly anticipated PC early access release date is set for January 13, and Hypixel Studios said it expects over 1 million players to ...
Magic: The Gathering’s Full Release Schedule for 2026 Confirmed
Magic: The Gathering had some great sets in 2025, but it also showed Wizards of the Coast perhaps straying a little too far from what makes the long-running card game special.That’s not to say Universes Beyond was a total bust. Final Fantasy brought in record-breaking numbers of players, and Avatar: ...
Super Mario Bros. Wonder – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Meetup In Bellabel Park Has Been Rated
Get ready for a 2026 release.Last September, Nintendo revealed Super Mario Bros. Wonder Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Meetup In Bellabel Park would be arriving in Spring 2026.We haven't really heard anything about it since then, and now in a slight development, a rating has been spotted on the Entertainment ...
The Best Deals Today: Digimon Story Time Stranger, Tears of the Kingdom, 8BitDo SN30 Pro, and More
We've rounded up the best deals for Sunday, January 11, below. Don't miss your chance to save on these deals!Digimon Story Time Stranger for $52.45Digimon Story Time Stranger was the long-awaited next entry in the Digimon Story franchise, and it turned out to be a major hit. In our 8/10 ...
Opinion: Metroid Prime 4 Does This One Thing Better Than Any Other Nintendo Game
Remappy days.The long-awaited Metroid Prime 4: Beyond finally released in December, and well, not everyone is happy with it.The game’s focus on NPCs and a literal desert of an open world did not resonate with gamers as well as Retro Studios had hoped. I hate to admit it, but I ...
Poll: Box Art Brawl: Duel – Mario Power Tennis (GameCube)
Serve's up.January persists, but so do we! Welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl.Last week, we matched up three different covers for Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition, and the results weren't even close. The moody European variant walked away with a dominant 69% of the vote, leaving North America ...
