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Digging into the memory banks of my game-playing career, I don’t know that I have ever felt so directly called out by a video game. I am not a successful fighter like protagonist Alta, nor do I have her personally destructive focus on success at all costs. But I know exactly how she feels, both as a generally anxious person who doesn’t truly know how to relax and as a gamer who doesn’t like cozy games who suddenly found themselves inside one. Wanderstop has technical shortcomings that sometimes distract from the larger experience, but as an introspective examination on the…

Spring is here, and so are seasonal deals. Cue Amazon’s special “Big Spring Sale.” While it’s not as well publicized as, say, Prime Day or any of the other before, after, and on Thanksgiving Day sales, we have found a dozen Big Spring Sale deals on tech products you’ll love. But there’s one more we really want to share with you. While this sale lasts (it goes until the March 31) you can get a 2024 version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite for just $200. That’s $65, and 25%, down from its usual price of $265. Pay special…

Obsidian’s impressive track record in role-playing games is reason enough to stand up and pay attention anytime the studio wades back into the genre. In the case of Avowed, the reasons stack up higher, since it’s a standalone first-person adventure set in the studio’s imaginative and vibrant fantasy world of Eora, previously established in the Pillars of Eternity series. The resulting game isn’t especially innovative and is unlikely to change anyone’s understanding of these types of experiences. But not every good or even great game needs to break the mold; Avowed succeeds with a tried-and-true formula, and keeps the priority…

Table of Contents Table of Contents Why the Oppo Find N5 is my favorite foldable How the Find N5 compares to the competition The biggest issue with the Oppo Find N5 Price is the final frontier still to cross A phone maker can rarely repeatedly surprise you, but Oppo and OnePlus have done that with their folding phones. The OnePlus Open — OnePlus’s first foldable and based on the Oppo Find N3 — has been widely regarded as the best folding phone since its launch in October 2013. The successor was meant to be the Oppo Find N5. I’ve spent the…

Booting up Assassin’s Creed Shadows for the first time felt surreal. I was looking at a samurai and a shinobi on the start screen of an Assassin’s Creed game. The series had finally made it to feudal Japan. As a longtime fan, though, I was nervous the actual game wouldn’t match the heights of the Japan-set Assassin’s Creed my imagination had cultivated over the past decade. After more than 55 hours in the feudal Azuchi-Momoyama era, I’m left somewhat conflicted about this long-awaited adventure. Its greatest strengths lie in its fusing of samurai and shinobi action to create the ultimate…

Table of Contents Table of Contents Why you shouldn’t use your bare wall The best projection screen options The biggest reason to get a projector is because its image can be, well, big. When you first experience watching a blockbuster movie, or playing a game, or cheering on your local sports team in your living room with the picture taking up most of your wall, it’s exciting and intoxicating. But if you’re watching that wall-sized picture on the literal wall, you’re not only visually doing yourself (and the money you spent on an excellent projector) a disservice, you’re affecting the…

Remedy is a beloved developer in the gaming industry, responsible for creating surreal single-player experiences like Control and Alan Wake. However, its next game, FBC: Firebreak, is a multiplayer game, which prompted many questions from the studio’s fans. To answer some of those questions, Remedy debuted a new trailer during the Future Games Show Spring Showcase and supplemented it with an additional trailer on its own page and a PS blog post, written by community manager Julius Fondem. Both trailers are gameplay-forward, showing off one of Firebreak’s missions, known here as “Jobs,” called Paper Chase. Since the game is set…

With Amazon’s Big Spring Sale 2025 in full swing, now’s the perfect time to upgrade with gaming PC deals. You’ll still have to spend a significant amount if you want a powerful machine, but you can enjoy huge savings with offers like this Asus ROG G13CH discount. From this configuration’s original price of $1,300, it’s available for only $1,100 following a 15% discount. That’s $200 in savings that you’ll be able to put toward a new screen from monitor deals, but you’re going to have to act fast if you want it because we’re not sure if stocks of the…

Compared to other events in the gaming sphere, the Game Developers Conference is, as its name implies, more focused on the industry side of things. It’s an opportunity to network and see presentations from other developers, but if your game is good, you can potentially also be recognized at the awards ceremony. Held the night of March 19, the GDC awards were dominated by Balatro, which won all four awards it was nominated for. Other winners include Astro Bot, for Technology and Audio, Metaphor: ReFantazio, which won Best Narrative, and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, which took home the Audience Award.…

The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 is all but certainly on its way and now a new leak may have revealed some key details. The latest flip phone from Samsung could see a jump in size over the current Flip 6 model. According to the new phone case renders, shared by known Samsung leakster Ice Universe, both the screens are getting a boost. The new screens are allegedly going to come in at 4-inches, for the outer, and 6.85-inches for the folding internal display. Please enable Javascript to view this content While that may not sound like a massive jump…