Even suffused in otherworldly fog, Silent Hill F's picturesque period setting gleams with authenticity. Traditional hardwood buildings line narrow alleyways, while babbling brooks and small footpaths crisscross soaking paddy fields. The ephemera of 1960s everyday life is everywhere: glossy magazines, vintage toasters, exquisite flower arrangements. Yet beyond this moody sense of place, the details that feel most authentic in Silent Hill F are of a kind that video games rarely excel at. It's the anxiety on the faces of its teen characters as they trade barbed taunts, the outpourings of emotion scribbled onto notes passed around at school.We …Read the full story at The Verge.

YouTube is no doubt the king of video content platforms and has been internet users' go-to entertainment destination for around a couple of decades. It also allows you to upload, store, and keep your videos private or share them with limited users. But it's not always the best place for every kind of video. At times, I want to store, organize, and share videos without tossing them onto Google's data-hungry servers.

Microsoft has started testing the ability to use video wallpapers on Windows 11. The feature has been spotted in the latest builds of Windows 11, and allows you to set video files like MP4 or MKV as your desktop wallpaper background.The videos play every time you view your desktop, much like third-party solutions like Wallpaper Engine. Microsoft previously supported video wallpapers in Windows Vista as a DreamScene feature for the Ultimate version of the operating system, but DreamScene was dropped from Windows 7.Windows DreamScene is back! Hidden in the latest Windows 11 Dev/Beta build (26×20.6690) is built in support for setting video files like .mp4 as your desktop background: pic.twitter.com/B4vdtfvqSc— phantomofearth 🌳 (@phantomofearth) September 20, 2025Video wallpapers are a highly requested feature for Windows users, and Wallpaper Engine is regularly in the top 10 most played apps and games list on Steam simply because of how many people have the app installed and running.Microsoft had been testing dynamic animated wallpapers for Windows 11 for years, and a former design even revealed exactly what they looked like earlier this year. These dynamic wallpapers were supposed to ship in 2023, but never made it into the release version of Windows 11.

Linux is a slippery slope for new users, albeit one of the most rewarding. I'll be transparent upfront that I recently started exploring this fascinating world of distros on an older computer, while Windows remains my daily driver; however, the sheer freedom is addictive. However, sampling desktop environments like a kid in a candy store, toying with GNOME on Fedora or a tiling window manager on Arch, quickly brings the realization that one chore is repeated no matter the distro.

Have you ever given a Far Cry game a try before? If you haven't, they're usually open-world FPS games where you're smack-dab in the middle of something terrible going on. You're usually fighting your way to try to escape whatever predicament you're in, and they're a ton of fun.

Web servers and game servers do not have a lot in common. Besides sometimes accessing web pages for a "message of the day" on a custom multiplayer server, or perhaps something like browsing the web in your Steam overlay, there isn't a lot that the two have in common. Despite that, YouTuber PortalRunner managed to not only host a complete web server within the Source game engine, but control it using in-game actions.

As per tradition, Microsoft is getting ready to release Windows 11 25H2 to the public. The company has released one of these "XXH2" updates annually for a while now, and they come in various shapes and sizes. For instance, Windows 11 24H2 introduced some interesting new features, while this year's update is shaping up to be a little calmer on the feature front.

The handheld gaming scene has continued to grow in strength over the past few years. Ever since the Steam Deck changed how we play our PC titles, other companies have taken their shots at making the perfect portable pal, and there are a ton of excellent Steam Deck alternatives out there for you to try out. You can pick out a budget-oriented model or splash out on a deluxe version, then equip it with either Windows 11 or SteamOS. Life's pretty good for gamers on the go.

Microsoft Teams may not be the best collaboration tool for many people, as its critics often prefer rivals like Slack. While Teams deserves criticism due to missing features and performance-related issues, the Redmond tech giant keeps on improving the app by closing the feature gap and introducing new ones.

The motherboard is perhaps the only PC component that involves sifting through tons of specs, reviews, and misinformation before confidently buying one. In contrast, buying a CPU, GPU, or SSD is incredibly straightforward since considerably fewer variables are involved. Out of the many motherboard features that people claim are indispensable, there are some that most gamers don't even look for. Enthusiasts and home lab users might swear by them, but they make little difference to an average gamer's experience.

The Achilles heel of the iPhone 17 Pro. The iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max appear to provide little resistance to scratches and scuffs around the sharp edges of the camera bump. Tech blogger Zack Nelson demonstrates this weakness in a durability test on his JerryRigEverything YouTube channel, explaining that the anodized aluminium layer on the iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max “does not stick to corners very well” — creating a weak point in the coating. This is a known issue with the electrochemical anodizing process, so it was a design decision Apple knowingly made.“For some reason, Apple didn’t add a chamfer, fillet, or radius around the camera plateau, and I think it was intentional, so it looks cooler,” Nelson says in the video. “But that decision to look cool out of the box is going to plague everyone who owns this phone down the road.” The video shows that everyday objects, like a coin or house key carried in the same pocket as the iPhone 17 Pro, can chip away at the anodized coating around the sharp corners of the camera bump. However, that same mildly aggressive scratching on the flat surface of the camera plateau only produced dust that could be easily wiped away.Bloomberg earlier reported that demo units at Apple stores last week were already exhibiting scratches and scuffs after only a few hours on display, especially on deep blue versions of iPhone 17 Pro models and the black iPhone Air. Here’s an example of the glass back of the iPhone Air showing scratches. If you have a new iPhone in your basket, this may be your sign to also add a protective case, or live with that patina since the scratching is only a cosmetic issue.

Containerization has changed how we deploy applications, but managing and monitoring them can still be a challenge. With so many services running simultaneously, it’s easy to get lost in a sea of logs and metrics. This is where Dozzle comes in. It’s a lightweight, self-hosted solution that provides a real-time look into your container logs.