(Image credit: Future/Tyler Wilde)I've found the cure for missing classic electronics with buttons and dials and LEDs and cool stuff like vacuum tubes. Unfortunately, it's pretty expensive, and other people will most likely be indifferent to your pursuit of this hobby, which you will practice alone, for yourself, possibly next to a potted plant. It's synthesizers.The Korg Volca series is a fun entry-level series of all-in-one synthesizers and step sequencers....

What's newI've updated our best Valheim mods list just a week after publishing it.Mostly because I'm sick and can't leave mods alone once I start, but also because I'm obsessed with turning the Meadows into a winter wonderland.My latest addition is the Seasons mod (via Hexium) by Shudnal.The mod adds spring, summer, fall, and winter changes to Valheim's biomes.It's customizable, so you can adjust season length, weather types, and more.And...

As we're in the latter half of the year, quite a few brand new, 2026 games are on sale in Steam's latest seasonal discount party, the Autumn Sale. Here are nine standouts we spotted:Resident Evil Requiem$48.99 (was $69.99) If $70 was too rich for your blood when Capcom's latest survival horror adventure launched back in February, you can now pick it up for under $50. (Steam)Lego Batman: Legacy of the...

User After-Cartoonist-196 on the German-language PCBaumeister subreddit claims to have bought a CPU secondhand, but that it carried the previous owner's Valorant ban.Extreme surveillance measures have been adopted by esports devs in recent years to combat and punish endemic cheating in their games.Riot support allegedly told them this ban is now associated with all of their other PC components, and there is nothing the company can do to lift the...

"Golden Tee '99, hole seven, Aspen Lake: There's a dead body about 180 yards out, a little bit to the right in the woods there," says Keith of Keith's Arcade, a YouTube channel not typically devoted to cold case homicides. But as they say in golf, you've got to play it as it lies, and in November 2012 Keith stumbled upon a body lying motionless just off the green of...

In recent years, triple-A games have often been criticised for overly excessive handholding, overcompensating for a dread fear that the player might become stuck. This has manifested in numerous ways like Atreus' heavy-handed puzzle hints in God of War: Ragnarok, yellow paint splashed on every other ledge of Stellar Blade, and most recently, Marvel's Wolverine essentially playing itself for entire portions of the game.I'm not here to weigh in on...

The developers of World of Warcraft: Forever would very much like it if you would create multiple characters, please.There are a number of reasons for that, including that having lower level characters means you'll be well set up to welcome new friends to the game, as well as to experience the new leveling zones and dungeons and encounters coming in future patches, the developers tell us in exclusive interviews. So...

Life comes at you fast, as the saying goes, and the folks at RuneScape developer Jagex can sure attest to that. Less than two weeks after announcing RuneScape Reignited—essentially a way for new and lapsed players to restart their adventures from fresh on separate, unique servers—the studio has decided to cancel it.There was trouble with RuneScape Reignited almost right from the start, with complaints ranging from a potential community split...

Funcom, the developer behind Dune: Awakening and Conan Exiles, has announced a restructuring process that will result in layoffs at the company, and that current CEO Rui Casais will leave Funcom once the reorganisation is complete.The decision comes after a shift in direction at Funcom, whereby the studio will focus wholly on supporting its existing survival RPGs. In a statement (via GamesIndustry.biz) Casais said that Dune: Awakening was "the biggest...

Shrek 2 Remastered is coming out in November, it has been announced. I wasn't aware there was a Shrek 2 game for PS2, the OG Xbox, GameCube and PC, probably because in 2004 I was too busy thinking about all the other games coming out. You know, stuff like Half-Life 2, World of Warcraft, Halo 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Wings of Power: WWII...