In all the time I've been a PC gamer, I never felt the need to check out Steam's remote play features like Steam Link. All my gaming happened on my PC, and my TV and phone were reserved for streaming and doomscrolling, respectively. Lately, however, I wanted to introduce my partner to co-op gaming, and since we now had the Apple TV 4K (3rd Gen) for the TV, I hoped the performance would be up to the mark. Little did I know I would be spending more time troubleshooting the Steam Link app than actually playing games with my partner.

M.2 SSDs used to be pretty affordable, but prices have risen over the past year, and even after some decent price drops, they still aren't back to where they were prior to 2023. That's why when something comes along that delivers good performance but doesn't cost an arm or a leg, it's worth highlighting so you can have a chance to upgrade your PC, laptop, or game console for less.

In 2010, when Microsoft unveiled the Kinect, it pitched the camera as a revolutionary new gaming device. Swing an imaginary lightsaber and that would be translated onscreen. Throw a football and it would be caught on your TV. Fifteen years later, we know the Kinect as an expensive failure. Microsoft overestimated the demand for playing games with your body. But the Kinect did still turn out to be revolutionary - just not for gaming.Now, we understand the Kinect is anything but a gaming device. It became a robotics game changer, enjoyed a brief dalliance with pornography, and is now upsold as a ghost hunting toy. None of which would have be …Read the full story at The Verge.

So, there's a Pillar of Autumn-sized elephant in the room, and that's about Halo coming to the PlayStation 5. After Forza Horizon and Gears of War, the next big 'green' exclusive coming to Sony's console is Master Chief himself. For a huge part of a newer wave of gamers, Halo: Campaign Evolved, which is coming out next year, will be their first foray into the Halo universe, so buckle up, because this one might feel different.

The Switch 2 console has now surpassed 10 million sales. The Switch 2’s popularity has exceeded even Nintendo’s anticipations, with the company raising its sales forecast for the console by more than 25 percent. In its latest earnings release, covering April 1st to September 30th, Nintendo now predicts that it’ll sell 19 million Switch 2 units by March 2026, compared to its previous forecast of 15 million.The Japanese gaming giant reports that 10.36 million Switch 2 consoles have been sold so far following its launch in June, with 4.54 million sales falling under its latest earnings period. 20.62 million Switch 2 games have also been sold since launch, though Nintendo has only raised its Switch 2 game forecast from 45 million to 48 million.The combined hardware and software sales are driving a 110 percent surge in revenue, which increased to ¥1,099.5 billion (around $7.1 billion) between April and September, compared to ¥523.2 billion (around $3.4 billion) for the same period last year. Nintendo also increased its end-of-year sales forecast to ¥2,250 billion (around $14.6 billion), and said it’s taken US tariff measures into consideration for these revisions.While the Switch 2 is the fastest-selling game console of all time, the first Switch console is also still creeping up in sales. The Switch has now hit 154.01 million lifetime sales, just shy of the 154.02 million total units sold for the DS, which still reigns as Nintendo’s most successful console. After dethroning the DS, the Switch then just needs to surpass 160 million sales to become the best-selling console of all time — a record set by Sony’s PlayStation 2 last year. By comparison, the Wii U sold just 13.7 million units over its entire lifetime, a figure that the Switch 2 is pretty much guaranteed to surpass before its first birthday.

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 might not be the most popular choice when it comes to graphics cards for this generation. But it's a good option if you're upgrading from something older, or just want something current that's not going to leave a huge dent in your bank account.

My adventures of building a smart home on a shoestring budget are taking an interesting turn. It turns out that I don’t need to splurge on costly smart home devices. Thanks to my colleague Adam Conway’s first-hand experience of building cheap smart home sensors with ESP32, my smart home dreams got a serious boost.

The Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 (Intel) is a thin and light business laptop that rounds out the T14s lineup with Intel's efficient Lunar Lake chipset. We've already taken a look at the Qualcomm Snapdragon and AMD versions of the T14s Gen 6, so the biggest change here is the silicon under the hood.

Do you fancy making your own game, but don't want to go through the pains of, you know, actually making a game? Well, I have some good news for you. Not only does Game Dev Tycoon let you design your ideal game in a safe sim environment, but it also puts you in charge of running an entire business based around producing top hits and sequels for your best-sellers. Best of all, you can do all that for the low, low price of $2 as part of a Steam sale.

I've been a Spotify user for years. It was convenient, had everything I wanted to listen to, and worked seamlessly across all my devices. But somewhere along the way, things changed. The free tier became nearly unusable due to constant ads interrupting every few songs. Then came the price increases. And the more I thought about it, the more uncomfortable I became with handing over data about every single song I played. So a few weeks ago, I decided to try something different. I built my own music streaming server using Navidrome, and honestly, I'm not going back.

For PC builders and hardware enthusiasts, a warranty affords peace of mind, no matter what they plan to do with their rigs — whether it's competitive gaming with boost profiles, crypto mining, tweaking with BIOS settings to gain the maximum performance out of their system, or precariously moving their components to another cabinet.

Model Context Protocol enables a Large Language Model (LLM) to do a lot more than just answer questions. Acting as a translator between the model and the digital world, it can abstract data from a particular service by exposing "tools" that the LLM can use. Instead of manually pasting snippets from another application, the model can choose to access that information if required. SearXNG is one such MCP server that enables a model to browse the web, but Context7 is another, fantastic MCP server that enables your model to access up to date documentation.