Year: 2026

Xbox's Chief Technology Officer, Scott Van Vliet, has offered transparency and an explanation for the system and service outage that affected game libraries, sign-in, and game launching for many players from late Sunday night and well into Monday, vowing to "do better." In a post on X, Van Vliet attributed […]

The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra is finally here, along with the Fold 8 and the Flip 8. Now, aside from tacking ‘Ultra’ onto the name, the Z Fold 8 Ultra looks and feels a lot like last year’s Z Fold 7. I’ve even put them next to each […]

Handheld gaming PCs grant you access to a nearly limitless library of PC games that you can play anytime and anywhere. Unfortunately, like just about everything else in the gaming world, they're more expensive now than ever before – except for Asus. Both the Asus ROG Xbox Ally and Xbox […]

Greek translator and University of Pennsylvania professor Emily Wilson has unleashed a scathing review of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, calling it a "confused" and "abysmal" adaptation of Homer's text. Wilson took to the London Review of Books to publish a lengthy assessment of Nolan's blockbuster epic and how, at least […]

The Dungeon Crawler Carl books started as just another LitRPG series, but have recently started exploding into a major franchise. Its rapid acceleration into the mainstream is mostly due to Matt Dinniman's fantastic story, but it's also very tied to the success of the audiobooks and the incredible voices of […]

One of the most beloved groups in Disney animation history is the princesses, and that popularity meant that the upcoming Lorcana drop, Curator’s Collection: Heroines Edition, saw a bit of a fracas at a London Disney store. While we’re waiting for an update on how fans can get the product […]

Spoilers ahead for the latest episode of House of the Dragon. House of the Dragon: Season 3’s sixth episode, “Faceless Men”, depicts a moment that its director called “an instigating event for a lot of bad things” to come in the series. As a frustrated Rhaenyra hears petitions from her […]

Magic: The Gathering's Marvel Super Heroes Collector's Edition preconstructed Commander deck bundles are back in stock at Amazon, but I have to say, they're somehow even more expensive than before. You can pick up the four-deck bundle sold and shipped by Amazon for $638.88, but the same bundle is also […]