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I want to love PC gaming, I really do. Yet after years of trying to get invested in my Steam library, I always find myself returning to my usual console gaming habits.But, when I finally got to try out an RTX 3080 powered laptop for a review, I thought I might at long last fall for PC gaming. Once I hooked up a gaming mouse and mechanical keyboard I’d previously reviewed this would be by far the best gaming setup I’d ever used – there was no way I could resist, right?And it almost got me. Without a doubt the…
Valve has announced that DOTA 2’s massive professional gaming tournament The International will no longer allow fans to attend due to COVID. The event is still going forward, though, and it is scheduled to begin on October 7 in Romania, Bucharest.”We have been carefully evaluating the continued rise of Covid rates in Romania, as well as the resulting introduction of new local restrictions in Bucharest,” Valve said in a statement. “To ensure the safety of all players, talent, and production staff participating in the event, we have decided to refund all ticket sales for The International 2021.””We wanted nothing more…
SteelSeries Prime Mini Wireless MSRP $130.00 “The $130 SteelSeries Prime Mini Wireless feels a step below other esports mice.” Pros Sturdy and ergonomic design Crispy optical magnetic switches Long battery life Super light Cons Large USB-C dongle with no storage Expensive Too small for most hand sizes You don’t normally think of high-end esports mice in a portable form, but that’s what the SteelSeries Prime Mini is. It takes the light ergonomic design of the Prime Wireless and cuts it up to create a gaming mouse that’s not only smaller, but lighter, too. SteelSeries didn’t cut features out to achieve…
The recent emergence of the Amazon Astro has renewed discussion about the utility of household robots. For some people, the Astro may have been the first home robot they had heard of, but it’s not even close to the only option. There are numerous “home” robots on the market, but they don’t all have the same functionality as Astro. On the other hand, a lot of these robots are significantly less expensive than Astro. Whether it’s to keep an eye out on your pets while you’re away, or a robot that will help with teaching kids, you don’t have to…
It feels like God of War came out forever ago, despite the fact that it was only released in 2018. That’s before the pandemic, before I worked a terrible food service job, and right when I graduated from college, which feels to me like a lifetime ago. However, after replaying it recently (a whim that was spurred on by my deal with a devil for a PS5), I’ve realized just how much of that game I forgot. I forgot how good it felt to throw Kratos’ axe and have it return to his hand, and so, so many of the…
Eric Zeman / Android AuthorityEach Spring OnePlus launches a new device that aims to best everything about its previous devices. In 2021, that device was the OnePlus 9 Pro — one of the first phones from the company to sit in the big leagues with Samsung and Apple. In our OnePlus 9 Pro review, we were comfortable calling it the company’s best phone in years.However, that all happened about six months ago. Since then, we’ve seen plenty of new phones launch while also hearing about some big changes coming down the pipeline for OnePlus as a whole. How does the…
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeOn this week’s edition of “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW reads four Twitter threads:Alex Gladstein on whether the crypto experiment has failed Russian political opposition figure Alexey Navalny on big tech complicity Adam Cochran on the debt ceiling chicken game Jason Yanowitz on why CryptoPunks will be worth $10mSee also: We Can Use as Much Energy as We Want, Forever“The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features NLW, with editing by Rob Mitchell and additional production support by Eleanor Pahl. Adam B. Levine is our executive producer and our theme music is “Countdown” by…
On Friday, September 17, the latest iPhones go up for preorder, and they’ll be in stores a week later. Those upgrading or switching have an important choice to make: Buy an iPhone 13 or splurge on an iPhone 13 Pro? If you want the smallest possible iPhone, the answer is simple—you have no choice but the iPhone 13 mini. You don’t have much choice if you want the biggest iPhone, either—that’s the iPhone 13 Pro Max. But the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro are the same sizes. With the iPhone 13 starting at $829 ($799 with carrier activation) and…
Starting from as early as May, 2021, Twitch streamers began reporting being “hate raided”, with many people supporting their claims with screenshots and clips. As more streamers reported the raids, it became evident that while anyone could be hit, the main targets were black and LGBTQ+ streamers.What is a hate raid?But, what are hate raids? “Raiding” is an age-old Twitch tradition, in which streamers direct their viewers to another stream, usually to “pay forward” (and sometimes to curry favor). Nowadays raiding is a Twitch feature: a streamer can raid with a mouse click and most do, when they’re done for the…
I used to upgrade my iPhone every year without fail. Regardless of some features that I wouldn’t use, it was the allure of having the latest and greatest that always mattered.However, in recent years, as life does, other priorities take hold, and you also realize that having the latest and greatest every year simply doesn’t matter.This happened to me in 2018 when I upgraded my iPhone 8 Plus to an iPhone X – essentially the same phone, but the X had Face ID instead of Touch ID, alongside a smaller OLED screen compared to the bigger LCD display of the…