Technology

This week, Chinese developer S-GAME hosted S-PARTY 2025, a two-day event in Beijing during which fans could get hands-on with the highly anticipated Phantom Blade Zero. IGN India has posted a 22-minute gameplay video from this new demo that shows some hidden boss fights, secret item discoveries, and new weapons. We’ve embedded it below. Phantom Blade Zero is undoubtedly one …

The other day I was on my way to get drinks with some friends after work, but in my head, I was still at work. I had just spent a 45-minute subway ride with my nose buried in my Steam Deck playing Kaizen: A Factory Story. Set in 1980s Japan, the inventive new project from Coincidence (a studio formed by …

As hardware ages, it becomes harder and harder to keep it in service. Whether that’s because of physical aging or lack of support from the company who built it in the first place, time is not generally good for electronics, especially when it comes to our beloved retro gaming systems. The first Playstation, for example, is starting to see some …

The idea of a foldable phone, still, several years in, feels like a novel one. As new releases have hit the market, they’ve continually improved and addressed some of the biggest complaints. That’s all led to today, where the Galaxy Z Fold 7 is not only a massive improvement over what came before, but also just flat out the best …

Home routers and cable modems are now extremely powerful devices, but they all suffer from the attention of their manufacturers’ design and marketing departments. Instead of neatly packaging them in functional cases, they impose aesthetics and corporate identity on them, usually resulting in a curvy plastic case that’s difficult to integrate with other network infrastructure. [The Eccentric Workshop] did something …

When I was six, my dad gave me a Super Nintendo with Super Metroid. My life changed. Since games were really expensive, every weekend we’d go to a local store to rent new titles like Mega Man X, Rock n’ Roll Racing, and many others. One day, we rented a game with “Final Fantasy III” written on the cover (which …

The Lego Game Boy looks unbelievably accurate to the 1989-released classic. It’s at a near 1:1 scale and thus promises to feel quite similar in your hand, too. The build set is made of 421 pieces and comes with memorable features such as the iconic D-pad, large circular A and B buttons, thin buttons for “Select” and “Start, as well as the …

The creator of the genre-defining RPG Undertale, Toby Fox, has launched a new website celebrating the game’s tenth anniversary. On this website, players are asked to record their memories by answering a series of questions. In particular, fans must input their name and answer how Undertale has impacted them, determine their appearance from a selection of character images, or draw …

The Steam store is a fundamental part of PC gaming. If you play on a computer, there’s a very high chance you’re making use of the Valve client to buy and play games. While I’m generally happy with the current experience, there’s always room for improvements, and now Valve is about to drop one of the biggest overhauls to Steam …

With just over three weeks before Made by Google 2025, the Pixel Watch 3 is receiving what should be its last discount before the replacement launches. All Pixel Watch 3 models — 41mm, 45mm, Wi-Fi, and LTE — are discounted by $80. This matches the Google Store discount for Prime Day. (During that sale, Amazon discounted everything by $100.) It’s …