It's not easy to make a ninja game. You have to strike the right balance between stealth and action; lean too hard on one of those, and you lose what makes ninjas so admirable in the first place. Fortunately, one game really did nail the feel of being an assassin of the night, and it was so good at what it did that it got remastered in 2018 and still holds up to this day. It's a game that aged like a fine wine.

Building your own PC can be one of the most exhilarating experiences. It is personal, customizable, and gives you total control over every component that goes into your setup. From choosing the perfect case, the unique CPU and GPU combo that is tailored to your needs and wants, and optimizing it for performance or aesthetics, it is a craft that many enthusiasts take pride in.

An open-source tool that perfectly blends the freedom of handwriting with the power of digital organization is a rare find, but Xournal++ is exactly that discovery. After running into annoying syncing issues on OneNote, I decided to look for alternatives, and my first priority was support for drawing tools.

It was 25 years ago when the PlayStation 2 first arrived on the console market. It was a time of great change for pop culture, but even more so for video games, as the continuing rise of 3D gaming took a strong hold on the industry. Years later, people still look back fondly on the PS2 and the library of legendary games that people loved to play. To many, it remains one of the best video game consoles ever released.

For years, I have lived a fragmented digital life. My blog drafts were organized on Google Drive, personal files sat on Dropbox, and other data was scattered across different platforms. The biggest headache wasn't losing files, but the syncing challenges: file conflicts, and having to trust multiple servers just to move my own data. It wasn't simple, it wasn't efficient, and it certainly wasn't private. I decided to dump the complicated services and use only one utility tool for all my syncing, and the tool is Syncthing. Here’s why I completely rebuilt my file synchronization workflow from the ground up using Syncthing.

Whenever CPU temperatures creep into uncomfortable territory, the first thing many of us think about is upgrading the cooler. I did that too for many years because it seemed like the most direct and logical fix. After all, bigger and thicker radiators should mean lower temps. But the thing is, you don't always need to spend $100-$150 on a new AIO just to get better cooling performance for your CPU. In fact, you can improve temperatures by a few degrees without spending any money at all.

The new Lenovo ThinkPad T14s lineup features its first-ever convertible laptop option. And as far as 2-in-1 business laptops go, the ThinkPad T14s 2-in-1 (Intel) has plenty going for it. It's powerful, efficient, and features the classic ThinkPad durability and industry-leading keyboard.

On every GPU box, you'll find a core clock and a boost clock, and these are the numbers your GPU should be able to reach out of the box. If you've ever monitored your GPU while gaming or benchmarking, you may have noticed that those numbers aren't always what you get.

Sigh... here we are, doing something that is an endlessly subjective thing ripe for getting you yelled at in any gaming circle — ranking the Call of Duty Zombies games. And yet, that's exactly what makes it fun. Everyone has their favorite era, their comfort map, and that one round they will never, ever forget when it comes to Call of Duty Zombies.

Microsoft's Phone Link app is one of the key components of the company's cross-device strategy, and the software giant also treats it like one by improving the app. That's Microsoft's official stance, but in reality, not everything works in users' favor. The recent example that I can remember is when Microsoft quietly axed the ability to remove devices from Phone Link.

Upgrading your monitor can make a world of difference, and it doesn't even need to be something high-end to really have an impact. And if you've been looking to upgrade, we think this MSI monitor is going to be the one to go. It's cheap and can really handle all that you can throw at it.

Ubuntu has always been my favorite Linux distribution for its stability, good support, and out-of-the-box performance. I installed it in one of my older laptops because of all these qualities. However, like any other OS, it isn't immune to slowdowns, especially when I use it for most of my Linux experiments and testing. After several months of using Ubuntu 24 and testing various applications, I noticed my system wasn't as snappy as it used to be.