The MS-DOS generation of gaming was an incredibly iconic one. Some of the greatest games came out during this time, and several of them developed into fantastic franchises that are still going strong today. The generation of gamers at the time was truly blessed, seeing fantastic games like Doom, Quake, King's Quest, Dune, Space Quest, and Master of Orion.

Task Scheduler is one of the most useful tools built into Windows. It helps you automate all kinds of things, whether you want something to run at a specific time or keep repeating in the background without you having to worry about it.

The XE5 may be larger than its predecessor, but with the right lens it’s still quite compact.Fujifilm is announcing the X-E5, a new $1,699.95 mirrorless camera due out in August. It has a 40-megapixel sensor, a new control lever on its front, a classic EVF mode with old-school frame lines, and of course a bunch of analog-inspired film simulations. It’s yet another retro-looking mirrorless from Fujifilm, but it’s one of the more striking designs, with cleaner, straighter lines on its single-piece machined top plate that give it a bolder look than the still hard-to-get X100VI. The two share the same sensor, tilting rear screen, and in-body image stabilization system. And with the new 23mm f/2.8 lens announced alongside it, the X-E5 can even match the focal length of the X100’s built-in lens — but with a more pronounced, contoured grip. The lens is initially available only in a bundle with the camera for $1,899.95, but will be sold standalone for $499.95 in late 2025.The new X-E5 is slightly larger than the last-gen X-E4 to accommodate image stabilization, and at 445 grams it’s about 80 grams heavier. The new, flippy control lever on its front has five programmable functions for enabling things like Surround View, which lets you see beyond the frame when shooting in cropped aspect ratios. Fujifilm’s popular film simulations get a dedicated dial on the X-E5, with a viewing window on the top plate that’s reminiscent of frame counters on vintage cameras. There are 20 built-in film simulations in total, and the dial features six of the most popular presets, plus three user-customizable options.The X-E5 has another new feature inspired by retro cameras: a Classic Display Mode for its built-in 2.36-million dot electronic viewfinder. Enabling this mode gives the viewfinder a vintage heads-up interface, with simplified red electronic numerals showing exposure values, rangefinder-like frame lines with rounded corners, and a needle-style light meter on the side. The frame lines look similar to the ones found on a Leica M3, while the light meter takes me right back to my old Pentax K1000 and other 35mm film SLR cameras.Fujifilm is sticking to its playbook of updating its X-series cameras with its latest sensor, stabilization, and autofocus tech. The X-E5 isn’t as left-field as the quasi-toy X Half camera, but I wager it’s closer to what dedicated X-series fans actually want. And Fujifilm obviously isn’t done going to the well for more vintage vibes from classic cameras.

Purpose-built smart home tech is often extraordinarily lightweight, using minimal power and requiring little in the way of performance. Not everything can run on low-power hardware, however. Sometimes, you need a little extra juice, but it might not be immediately obvious what you'd need it for.

It's no secret that physical media, from movies to video games, is seemingly on its way out, or at least becoming more of a luxury than a given. At the start of the latest Xbox and PlayStation console generations, both companies released versions without disc drives: the digital-only PS5 and the Xbox Series S. With the recent launch of the Nintendo Switch 2, it was revealed that most third-party physical games would be key cards, which just allow you to download a digital copy and doesn't actually have the game on the cartridge, leaving new consoles owners concerned about the future of these games. While there are some upsides to a digital-only library, no disc switching, no need to go to the store, and less stuff taking up room in your house, but is it worth the downsides?

When I first downloaded Obsidian, I spent a not-insubstantial amount of time poking through the different plugins available to me. I downloaded Templater based on the recommendation of others, but I brushed it off. After all, a template plugin couldn't be all that useful, right? Obsidian already had one built-in. In some ways, I was right; the core Template plugin is powerful by itself and is capable of doing quite a bit on its own.

Rolling across rugged alien wilds, your circular base in The Alters offers a twinkling haven from the whipping winds and nauseating radiation. At least, that's how it feels for the first few hours. Gradually, as the in-game days stack up, my view of the vessel changes: protagonist Jan Dolski seems to be stuck on what is essentially a very expensive, very large hamster wheel, eking out an existence within modular rooms that look a lot like shipping containers. For the corporation funding this venture, Ally Corp (pah!), Jan and his crewmates are just like the resources they're seeking to extract: commodities. The hamster wheel stylings of your ship evoke the visual storytelling of filmmaker Bong Joon-ho: the speeding train in Snowpiercer, or the repetitive clone deaths of Mickey 17, each distilling class and the flow of capital into raw images. This should tell you something about how ambitious and frequently weird this sci-fi game is. In part, The Alters is a base-building survival experience of the kind that developer 11 Bit Studios received plaudits for with the Frostpunk series.But there's a wrinkle: in The Alters, you're directing Jan about the ship, getting him to interact …Read the full story at The Verge.

Even with improvements like tabbed browsing in Windows 11 File Explorer, it’s not the most efficient way to manage your files during your workflow. An alternative you might want to consider is Fileside. Not only does it offer a dual-pane view like other alternatives like XYplorer, but it also allows you to create workspaces for whatever you’re working on. You can save your custom layout views and easily access them for each type of project you’re working on.

I bought my first SSD around 7 years ago, but I've always had a hard drive on my main rig. Even now, I have a 4TB hard drive in addition to my 2TB NVMe SSD. Apart from all my old photos, videos, movies, music, and OS partition images, I use the hard drive to store most of my game library. The only games allowed on my SSD are the ones I'm currently playing; the rest of them always reside on the hard drive. Just like the other rarely accessed data on the HDD, most of my backlog doesn't need to be on the SSD.

Running a Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi is one of the easiest ways to clean up your internet experience. Once it is in place, you will see fewer ads, less tracking, and faster page loads. But like any good tool, Pi-hole has plenty of room for optimization. I have tested various tweaks on my own setup to determine what truly makes a difference. Some were game-changers, others were a waste of time. Here are the ones that actually made a noticeable difference.

In between all the AI tools that do the same thing as each other with slightly different interfaces, Google's AI-powered research assistant, NotebookLM, is one of the few that feels like it was built to solve a real problem. Ultimately, it stands out from the rest.

Some devices don't need to be connected to the internet with your home IP address publicly visible, and if you use OPNsense, it's actually very easy to automatically route designated traffic over a VPN while still allowing local access. I've been playing around with it, and all you need is a VPN that supports WireGuard and the configuration details required to connect to the provider using a regular WireGuard client.