Gaming

Microsoft is laying off employees on teams, including security, sales and gaming.The layoffs are separate from cuts targeting underperforming employees across the company.In 2024 Microsoft said security was its No. 1 priority.Microsoft is laying off employees across organizations including security, experiences and devices, sales, and gaming, according to two people familiar with the matter.A Microsoft…

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Retro game emulators are finally on the App Store, and they're thriving. Apps like Delta and RetroArch let users play old retro Nintendo and console games with ease. The software side of retro gaming is surprisingly mature; the hardware side, however, has some catching up to do. Playing retro games using touchscreen controls leaves a…

CES isn’t typically where we see the year’s biggest gaming announcements, with major upcoming games usually being saved for summer and winter, and new console announcements now often coming in the spring or fall. But after spending a week in Vegas, I’m now leaving feeling like the gaming industry is about to go through a…

Have you ever streamed Dark Souls before? Trust me, the last thing you want when you’re struggling with a boss is for the chat to start piping in to tell you how to beat it—an annoyance streamers have started to call “backseating.” Now, imagine the chat is an AI and that it can interrupt your…

CES 2025 is nearing a close, and I couldn’t be more excited. Not because I dislike the show floor or meeting face-to-face with people I usually only see online, but because I’ve been spending the week in a hotel room with a broken heater. That’s why, when I got to try Razer’s concept heating and…

Phones are in a weird spot right now when it comes to gaming. They’re easily the most popular gaming devices on the market, but they also kind of suck to play on. Despite phones having the power to run some pretty demanding titles, the lack of built-in physical controls force most mobile games to make…

Hot off the heels of Lenovo’s announcement that it’s miniaturizing its Legion Go gaming handheld with the Legion Go S, fellow PC manufacturer Acer is going in the complete opposite direction with the biggest handheld gaming PC I’ve ever seen. The seven-inch Acer Nitro Blaze handheld the company showed off in September isn’t even available…

Ever since it kicked off a renewed interest in handheld PC gaming in 2022, the Steam Deck has been my go-to recommendation for anyone with even a passing interest in taking their PC games on the go. It now has plenty of competition, some with better chips and some with better screens, but none have…

With the new Nvidia GeForce RTX 50-series graphics chips finally revealed, a flurry of gaming laptops was announced at CES 2025 taking advantage of the tech. That included an updated flagship from HP's gaming brand, the Omen Max 16. The 16-inch laptop starts at $1,700 and is just over an inch thick but has high-performance components…