Got started on your holiday shopping yet? If not, you better get cracking. Here are five items that any audiophile or music lover would want to receive. And since each one is discounted between 20 and 40 percent for Cyber Monday, they won’t put nearly as big of a dent in your wallet. Altec Lansing…
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Photoshop is an absolute staple of modern graphic design, an industry standard for over 30 years. It’s also insanely expensive: no longer available as a stand-alone program, you’ll pay Adobe a minimum of $120 every year to use it as a part of a Creative Cloud subscription. That’s a lot of dough to drop, especially…
If you run out of space on your gaming laptop or you simply want an easy way to make your game library portable, an external SSD provides an easy way to expand storage without the hassles. But choosing an external SSD involves a dizzying headache of options, and making a poor choice can leave you…
Price: £7.49 Developer: Rebel Act Studio/SNEG Publisher: SNEG Platform: PC Originally release in 2001, Severance: Blade of Darkness was an innovative hack ‘n’ slash RPG notable for its advanced dynamic lighting engine and brutal, challenging combat. It’s always been one of my favourite games, but after a poor commercial reception upon launch, the game has…
At the Unleashed event in Cupertino on Monday, Apple’s highly anticipated new computer SoCs were introduced. Built on an advanced 5nm process and featuring up to 57 billion transistors, the new chips, the Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max SoCs, will initially launch as the processing options for the revamped MacBook Pro 14 and MacBook…
Nowadays, working from home is pretty darn common. While remote work definitely has its perks (nothing beats wearing comfy pajama bottoms all day), it has its downfalls too. Do you ever find yourself getting absorbed in a juicy Twitter thread or being sucked down a wormhole of countless dog-themed TikToks? If Google Chrome is your…
Blue Microphones If you want a USB microphone for more than just streaming, Best Buy is the place to be today. The online retailer is selling the Blue Yeti X World of Warcraft edition for $95. That’s about $45 cheaper than you’ll play elsewhere. We took a look at Yeti X as part of our…
The big picture: Consumer spending on video games in the US dropped 10 percent in November, from $7 billion a year ago to $6.3 billion this past month. Despite the shortcoming, year-to-date industry spending is up nine percent thus far in 2021 to $52.9 billion. In his monthly report on the video game industry, The…
In context: If you were a Microsoft fan back in the Xbox 360 era, you likely remember the infamous “Red Ring of Death.” When a 360 unit suffered from a hardware fault of some kind, its power button LEDs would turn red instead of white, and the system would refuse to boot. The issue is…
Highly anticipated: Earlier this month, 343 Industries community manager John Junyszek teased some upcoming Halo Infinite playlist additions based on the game community’s feedback. True to their word, another community manager delivered some good news to the long-running franchise’s fans via the Halo subreddit on Saturday — the devs are adding four new playlists to…