Immersion. It’s what we all strive to find in our games. We become Solid Snake taking down FOXHOUND in Metal Gear. We are Sam Fisher, sneaking through the darkest corridors to keep the world safe. We run down Metroids on Planet Zebes wearing the Power Suit of Samus Aran.
I corrupted my wife into modern board gaming quickly while we were dating. In her family, she grew up letting other people win so people would play with her and now a maniacal grin crosses her face when she realizes she makes a tactical and well planned move, regardless of
Making a dungeon crawler that both appeals to and is actually viable for everyone is the game design philosopher’s stone: a hypothetical ideal to strive for, accepting you’ll probably never attain. Of course, I’m not suggesting that Chip Theory’s Elder Scrolls has attained that mark; at
When John Carmack left id Studios to work at Meta (then Facebook), he clearly stated that he had a target in mind – he wanted to make a wireless headset that was affordable and powerful. It has been a long road, and Carmack has since left the company, but he might
Any good tech review should start with the “why”. Why do I need this particular device? What feature or function makes my life easier, entertains me, or otherwise improves workflow or efficiency? Whether it’s a videocard, a smart watch, or perhaps a pro version of a game console, a
Playing a game on PC, you have a wealth of controller options at your disposal. You can play with a joystick, specialty keyboard, accessibility controller, and many more, though gamers tend to gravitate towards one of the two most popular options, either a keyboard and mouse or a gamepad. The
If you’re familiar with the A440, then you might have read our review where I called the Cardea A440 M.2 NVMe SSD the “Best price to performance on the market” – something I stand behind to this day. It absolutely crushed our synthetic testing, worked brilliantly in the PlayStation
If you take 30 seconds and just search “Monitor mount” on Amazon you’ll get over 20 pages of results, and with WILDLY varying levels of quality. Many come from unusual names like Suptek, Bontec, Bracwider, Sweetcrispy, and of course, Amazon Basics. If you were to do this same search,
