Microsoft has been making significant investments in Microsoft 365 lately. It's not difficult to see why; the company has invested a significant amount of time, effort, and money into its AI chatbot Copilot to make its AI assistant an invaluable asset for individuals who want to accomplish more. While Microsoft 365 has advanced in leaps and bounds lately, the company has put other apps on the back burner, or worse, scrapped them altogether.

Watching the first few minutes of KPop Demon Hunters on Samsung's Galaxy XR headset, I think Apple's Vision Pro might be cooked.It's not because the Galaxy XR - which Samsung formerly teased as Project Moohan - is that much better than the Vision Pro. It's that the experience is comparable, but you get so much more bang for your buck. Specifically, Galaxy XR costs $1,799 compared to the Vision Pro's astronomical $3,499. The headset launches in the US and Korea today, and to lure in more customers, Samsung and Google are offering an "explorer pack" with each headset that includes a free year of Google AI Pro, Google Play Pass, and YouTube P …Read the full story at The Verge.

In the early days of Steam, it felt like a huge sale could drop at any second. When they did, all pretenses of saving for something went out the window as people worldwide filled their digital carts to the brim with highly-discounted games. Fortunately, while the dates of the big sales used to be a secret among developers on Steam (and a poorly kept one at that), Valve is now more transparent about when sales will occur.

If you're looking to upgrade your monitor on a budget, we think this Asus TUF gaming monitor is going to be an excellent option, delivering impressive performance at a fair price. While it's normally $299, it can now be had for much less, with a steep discount that drops it down to just $239 for a very limited time.

A screenshot from Lego Party!, which will be available on Netflix. Netflix has been investing a lot of time and energy into gaming, but the company sees its work on games as part of a broader initiative around interactivity, co-CEO Greg Peters said in today’s Q3 2025 earnings call.“We’ve mostly talked so far about our work in this space as games because that’s an easy shorthand,” he said. “But we see this initiative as more about interactivity broadly. How does interactivity become complementary to linear storytelling? How is it able to unlock whole new entertainment experiences?” As an example, he mentioned real-time voting, which Netflix is currently testing with Dinner Time Live With David Chang and plans to use with its live Star Search revival in January. “We expect to provide other interactive features to deepen engagement with live events as we go in the future,” Peters said.Recently, Netflix has also shaken up its gaming strategy to focus in part on multiplayer party games, including a batch that you’ll be able to play on your TV by using your smartphone as a controller. “These games are super easy to access,” Peters said. “
It’s just like our series and films. You scroll to the games tab, you pick whatever you want, click it, and you’re in. You don’t need a special controller — that’s key to this access.”In the “years ahead,” Netflix expects that “creators will really find interesting and novel ways to unlock all of the power that is in this incredibly advanced controller that we all happen to have in our pockets, which, of course, is our phones,” Peters said.The company is also putting its efforts into offering games based on its own franchises, games for kids, and more mainstream titles like Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy — The Definitive Edition.With its approach, Netflix sees that it “not only extends the audience’s engagement with a story, but it creates a synergy that reinforces both mediums, the interactive and the non-interactive side,” according to Peters. “It drives engagement and drives retention, therefore supports the business.” Down the line, the company is going to “ramp our investment in this area judiciously,” but Netflix is “extremely excited about the progress we’ve got ahead of us.”

The ROG Xbox Ally is finally arriving at people's homes, and they are sharing their initial impressions of it. It's a significant moment, as the ROG Xbox Ally marks Microsoft's major entry into the handheld console market, so all eyes are on it to see how well it performs. And because it's a Microsoft-endorsed handheld, it comes pre-installed with Windows 11. And you know what that means? That's right; people are wondering what happens when you replace Windows 11 with a Linux-based OS.

After two long decades, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, the 2004 vampire RPG classic, has gotten a sequel. It only took 21 years, two studios, and ground-up rewrites, but Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is now here. If you haven't played the first game but are still impressed by everything you've seen for Bloodlines 2, you won't be alone. After all, the first game could legally purchase and consume alcohol today, while the sequel itself requires you to be just seventeen.

When you start self-hosting, you should be prepared for lots of troubleshooting, things not working as they should, and unexpected downtime. I would say that I've been quite lucky with the services I've chosen to use, with only one that stopped working for an unexplained reason after running smoothly for a while.

Samsung is launching the Galaxy XR today and it's available to purchase...right now. It's basically Samsung's, Google's, and Qualcomm's answer to Apple's Vision Pro, except it costs about half the price and comes with about a thousand dollars in freebies.

It's very rare that we see a game so well-loved in the gaming community go on a 92% discount, but when it does, you can be sure we'll notice. After all, who doesn't like getting a critically acclaimed game for an incredibly agreeable price?

Synology hasn't had the best of years for 2025. The company has experienced a downward trend in customer loyalty when it came to its series of X25 models, such as the DS925, DS425, and DS225. We reviewed the DS925 and found it to be a decent NAS, rocking the same exceptionally good DSM software, but the entire package was let down by a few questionable company decisions. Namely, restricting HDD support to specific branded options, and outright dropping hardware transcode support, making running Plex, Jellyfin, and other media streaming apps almost impossible.

Nvidia Reflex is a rather ambiguous technology that's ultimately marketed as a tool designed to minimize the delay between your mouse and keyboard input followed by the action showing up on screen. It's deemed to be particularly important for fast-paced competitive games where every millisecond counts, namely competitive titles like Counter-Strike 2, Valorant, and Battlefield 6. Yet it's a feature that's present in more games than just fast-paced, competitive FPS titles.