Things that HP Lovecraft was good at: Creating a mythos. Building atmosphere.Things that HP Lovecraft was bad at: Writing dialog. Creating compelling characters. Not being a racist.As a fan of horror in general, I can't pretend that Lovecraft isn't an important touchstone. But the man's blatant racism is also impossible to ignore, especially since it often finds its way onto the pages of his stories. One of the most notorious is The Horror at Red Hook, which follows Detective Thomas Malone as he uncovers a sinister cult in the titular Brooklyn neighborhood. The Ballad of Black Tom is a retelling of that story, but from the perspective …Read the full story at The Verge.

In this new era of console… inclusivity? driven by Sony and mostly Microsoft bringing their exclusives to other platforms, it's getting harder to highlight games that make a singular console shine. Indeed, the top-performing games year after year on both PlayStation and Xbox are multiplatform releases, and often the best games of the year, like 2025 GOTY winner Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, similarly launch on most everything. (Once again, like in all things, Nintendo is the exception.)But while lists like this will probably disappear as we get deeper into the era of everything being an Xbox, Sony still seems committed to high-quality exclu …Read the full story at The Verge.

I’ve been using VS Code for as long as I can remember, but more recently, I started experimenting with other tools. I spent a considerable amount of time with Cursor, especially after Anysphere rolled out V2. VS Code has remained solid as a rock, and I don’t recall a single instance where it got in my way. That said, it’s also not keeping up with how modern code editors are evolving. Cursor, for instance, is packed with AI features, and they’re not just there for show. I’ve found them genuinely useful, something VS Code still lacks at a deeper level of integration.

As someone who has lost important data to carelessness, I value backups a lot. Data loss can strike at any time, from a failing hard drive or accidental deletion to ransomware attacks, so having reliable backups is crucial for a good night’s sleep. But if you rely on manual backups, you’re going to wake up in the middle of the night and think, “Oh crap, did I back that up?” The solution is to automate your backups and let the robots do the heavy lifting.

You know, it wasn't that long ago when we saw RTX 50 GPUs go for extremely high prices. However, as the hardware market shifts to purchasing RAM and SSDs, the GPU market has been allowed to cool off a little bit. We eventually saw RTX 50 devices drop to the recommended retail price, and now, we're seeing excellent deals on gaming laptops that we wouldn't dream of seeing a few months ago. So, if you want to score $700 off an RTX 5070 Ti laptop, now's your chance.

The motherboard is the body of your PC. It might be easy for you to feel like you have to opt for the best option on the market in order to achieve the best quality build that you can. However, the reality is that a motherboard is a secondary performance component, and a mid-range B-series board is the actual optimal pro-choice if you're looking for a balanced system and don't want to break the bank.

One thing I didn't realise when getting into the SBC community is how much overlap there is with the train enthusiasts. I got my first taste when I reported on when someone made an incredible 3D live map of Manhattan's subway trains using a Raspberry Pi, and since then, I've seen little train-inspired projects pop up here and there.

The Nintendo Power Glove was not good. It's important that you know that. The Power Glove was ambitious, impressive, even important - one of the very first mainstream devices that let you control a game using your body instead of just your thumbs - but it was not good. In some ways, its not-good-ness is a key part of the story.The Power Glove showed up in the late 1980s, at a complicated time for the gaming industry, when Nintendo was a hugely powerful force for the future of fun. But the Power Glove wasn't really even a Nintendo product. It started as a research lark, became a toy, and only wound up with Nintendo's name on it after a part …Read the full story at The Verge.

There are a few different ways to get software downloaded on your Linux distro, but if you're looking for a way to grab an app without installing it on your system and without any prerequisites, Flathub is the way to go. It's especially useful if you're on an immutable distro, because you can just grab whatever apps you want without needing to layer anything.

When you treat a Raspberry Pi 5 as a serious home server, the board itself is only the starting point. The difference between a cute experiment and something you can trust with your data comes down to the supporting cast. The right storage, cooling, power, networking, and mounting can turn this little board into a box you forget about because it simply keeps working. These accessories make that kind of reliability possible.

There's a very specific kind of magic that only a handful of games manage to capture — the kind that survives hardware generations, shifting tastes, and sadly, our own growing cynicism as players. In the video game space, fifteen years is an eternity. It's almost two whole console generations, where engines evolve, genres mutate, studios collapse, and mechanics that we once considered revolutionary become nothing but muscle memory.

Yesterday, Ubisoft confirmed that Rainbow Six Siege had been compromised and that it had shut down the game's servers and marketplace while it resolved the issue. The hackers managed to gain control over a significant chunk of the game's systems, including the ability to ban and unban users, sending custom messages to ban ticker, unlocking all in-game items, and granting every player 2 billion R6 Credits and Renown. Ubisoft sells R6 credits in its store, pricing 15,000 of them at $99.99. That means the actual cash value of 2 billion R6 credits is about $13.33 million. Ubisoft made it clear that nobody would be punished for spending any c …Read the full story at The Verge.