Month: March 2026

Amazon's Big Spring Sale is well under way, with several more days to go before it ends on March 31. There are plenty of outstanding discounts to be found, but the best deals that I've seen so far are on budget-friendly products under $50. I put together this list of […]

Some of the best savings during Amazon’s Big Spring Sale come from its ‘Get 3 for the Price of 2’ promotion on a whole bunch of physical media. Books, Blu-rays, and something I’m particularly excited about, vinyls, are all a part of this deal. Which means you’ll essentially get one […]

Its rare for LEGO to go on sale. One, because it's so popular; why reduce the price on something that people will pay for? Two, because the company retires its sets before they lose their popularity; there's always the shiny new set to hype and charge full price for. So […]

Sony just announced some hefty price increases on the PS Portal and PS5 consoles. The most extreme? The PS5 Pro getting hiked from $750 to $900, putting us daringly close to the world of $1000 consoles. The increase is being attributed to “continued pressures in the global economic landscape," and […]

Auteurs rarely redo their own work, and when they do, it’s usually to take advantage of bigger budgets and newer tech. Michael Mann upgraded his TV movie LA Takedown into the star-studded Heat, while Ozu and Hitchcock remade their silent films as talkies. Resident Evil director Shinji Mikami had no […]

Resident Evil’s Spencer Mansion is a life-or-death slash course in scarcity that wrote a genre’s rulebook in blood and ink ribbons. It’s a clockwork crucible made of stairways and statues that demands mastery to unlock, and its interior was scratched into our cerebellums from the second S.T.A.R.S. slammed shut the […]

1996 was a red-letter year for the art of speedrunning. Four years after Doom sparked the scene and months before Quake turned it into a global community, Resident Evil arrived to reward dedicated players for a different kind of virtuosity, one that valued planning, routing, and a deep understanding of […]

It seems like every few weeks, we're finding out about another developer using generative AI to create assets for their games, or at least strongly considering it. So I'm pretty intrigued at the latest interview from the dev team behind Pragmata, wherein they said they're hand-crafting one of the levels […]

Extend the battery life on your Nintendo Switch 2, Steam Deck, or Apple iPhone 17 for a rock bottom price. As part of the big Spring Sale going on right now, Amazon is offering the flashy Iniu 10,000mAh 45W Power Bank in red for just $10.19 after you clip the […]

Neil Newbon's performance as Astarion in Baldur's Gate 3 is among the most memorable in the game, and that's saying a lot given how many amazing actors are in there cooking. And Newbon's rightfully proud of the good work he did as Astarion – but, inspired by David Bowie, he's […]