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Psychonauts Is 20 Years Old, So Let’s Remember An All-Time Classic
One of the stranger moments of my career was reviewing a game, giving it a four-page review and a well-deserved score of 89 percent in the then-massively-selling UK PC Gamer magazine, and then the game not coming out for another eight months. That was just one example of the nightmares Psychonauts—Double Fine’s magnum opus—went through…
12 Years Late, This Kickstarter-Funded Tribute To A Legendary Adventure Game Series Is A Complete Disaster
In 2012, renowned developers Scott Murphy and Mark Crowe launched a Kickstarter to spiritually revive their classic Space Quest series, a game to be called SpaceVenture. Some 13 years later, following numerous delays and botched half-launches, the game has finally arrived on Steam. And oh no, it’s so bad. But before we confront its awfulness,…
SSD Benchmarks Hierarchy 2025: We’ve tested over 100 different SSDs over the past few years, and here’s how they stack up.
Our SSD benchmarks hierarchy provides a look at how all the different SSDs we’ve tested over the years stack up. These are all M.2 NVMe drives, but our test group has PCIe 3.0, 4.0, and 5.0 models. This is not our list of the best SSDs, as we’re looking to rank the drives by raw…
The GPU benchmarks hierarchy 2025: Ten years of graphics card hardware tested and ranked
GPU Benchmarks & Performance Hierarchy (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Our GPU benchmarks hierarchy ranks all the current and previous generation graphics cards by performance, and Tom’s Hardware exhaustively benchmarks current and previous generation GPUs, including all of the best graphics cards. Whether it’s playing games, running artificial intelligence workloads like Stable Diffusion, or doing professional…
These 5 laptops are among the best I’ve used through the years
Summary The PC industry has given rise to some absolutely iconic laptops throughout the years. Over the years, I’ve used a number of notebook PCs – some models are iconic, while others simply provide me with a sense of nostalgia. Here are some of the very best laptop PCs that I’ve had the pleasure of…
‘Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ is the best one in years, sometimes in spite of itself
It feels like there’s about a 100:1 ratio of negative-to-positive news headlines around Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Just this week, developers have been told internally to not talk about working on the game, lest they face harassment. At the same time, publisher Ubisoft is desperately fighting off talks of a corporate merger amidst investor troubles. I’d…
Ted Price looks back on over 30 years in gaming | interview — The DeanBeat
Ted Price, the retiring CEO of Insomniac Games, received the honor of being inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences at The Dice Awards this week. Price started Insomniac Games in 1994 and brought us games such as Spyro the Dragon, Ratchet & Clank, Resistance: Fall of Man, and the blockbuster Marvel’s Spider-Man…
MasterCard DNS Error Went Unnoticed for Years – Krebs on Security
The payment card giant MasterCard just fixed a glaring error in its domain name server settings that could have allowed anyone to intercept or divert Internet traffic for the company by registering an unused domain name. The misconfiguration persisted for nearly five years until a security researcher spent $300 to register the domain and prevent…
Bonfire Studios announces debut game Arkheron after 8 years — exclusive
Bonfire Studios, an independent video game developer started by Rob Pardo and other game veterans in 2016, is finally coming out of stealth mode, unveiling its debut project Arkheron. Founded by industry veterans responsible for iconic franchises including Blizzard Entertainment’s Diablo, Overwatch, StarCraft and World of Warcraft, the Bonfire team draws on the expertise and…
Will Trump’s tariffs make costs explode for this year’s most anticipated products?
Tech lovers: Bigger price tags may be on the horizon. The incoming Trump administration has proposed a sweeping economic agenda that includes controversially high tariffs on imported goods, and while the plan has reportedly fluctuated over the last month, the President-elect argues increased tariffs on imports is the best way to pay for sweeping tax…
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