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Watch composer Yuzo Koshiro play his iconic chiptunes through an NEC PC-88

It’s not hard to listen to your favorite video game soundtracks online. Just load YouTube or some other music streaming services, and search there. But that experience pales in comparison to hearing (and seeing) that music played through the hardware it was originally composed on. Legendary gaming composer Yuzo Koshiro has been posting nostalgia bombs… Read more

GameStop stock just jumped 100 percent, and WallStreetBets is ecstatic

GameStop is up… again, by a lot. Before market close on Wednesday, the video game retailer’s shares started to soar, and GME just closed at $91.71 — up nearly 104 percent for the day. It’s the highest the stock has been since it fell back down to Earth at the beginning of the month following… Read more

Intel: Rocket Lake’s PCIe 4.0 Storage Performance is 11% Faster Than AMD Ryzen

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel’s Rocket Lake is on the launchpad for release this quarter, and in traditional fashion, the company began teasing hard gaming performance numbers during CES 2021. Now, Ryan Shrout, Intel’s Chief Performance Strategist, has teased a new benchmark result via Twitter that shows the flagship Rocket Lake Core i9-11900K beating… Read more

Amazon Luna cloud gaming now available on Fire TVs without an invite

Amazon’s cloud-gaming service, Luna, is now available to try for free in the US on select Fire TV devices without an invitation, the company has announced. Luna launched in early access last year, as an invitation-only service. Originally, customers also needed an invite to buy the Luna Controller, but Amazon now says it’s available to… Read more

The thylacine remains extinct, but we still have pademelons

There was some excitement online yesterday as word spread that a family of thylacines was potentially caught on camera. The thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger, was declared extinct decades ago, so a confirmed sighting would certainly be cause for celebration. Unfortunately, wildlife biologist Nick Mooney at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG)… Read more

How to leave LastPass and move to another password manager

Ever since LastPass announced that it was tweaking its free tier to only allow a single category of device — mobile or computer — there’s been a lot of interest in finding alternatives among LastPass users. Luckily, once you do find an alternative, it’s pretty easy to pull your data from LastPass and upload it… Read more

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater remaster coming to PS5, Xbox Series X, and Switch

The very good remaster of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2 is hitting next-gen consoles and the Nintendo Switch this year. The game will launch on the PS5 and Xbox Series X / S on March 26th, but there’s no specific release date for the Switch release beyond “2021.” The game was first released… Read more

Epic Games will settle Fortnite loot box lawsuits in V-Bucks

Epic Games will give Fortnite players 1,000 V-Bucks if they ever purchased an in-game loot box, presented within the game as “loot llamas” containing randomized items, as part of a proposed class action lawsuit settlement to be approved later this week. While Fortnite’s massively popular battle royale mode has never contained randomized loot boxes, the… Read more

Karma’s new GS-6 hybrid is a cheaper version of its luxury sports car

Electric vehicle startup Karma Automotive has fully revealed its newest hybrid car, the GS-6. While it shares the same design as the company’s ultra-luxury sedan, the Revero GT, Karma is pricing the GS-6 at nearly half the price — $83,900 — in a bid to reach a much wider set of customers. Karma says it’s… Read more

HyperX Alloy Origins 60 Review: Big Wins, Small Keyboard

Our Verdict The HyperX Alloy Origins 60 is a 60% gaming keyboard that justifies its premium price tag with sturdy build quality, responsive mechanical switches and RGB backlighting. For Premium build quality Doesn’t take up a lot of desk space Responsive, ping-free switches Against 60% layout can be hard to learn Replacement spacebar uses ABS… Read more

Entire school board resigns in shame after forgetting their WebEx call was public

You would think the entire world would know how Zoom works by now. Lawyers can be cats, congressmen are sometimes inverted, but pants are not actually optional. That didn’t keep the Oakley Union Elementary School District’s board of trustees from badmouthing parents during a public WebEx call — suggesting that parents just “want their babysitters… Read more

The FAA is no longer concerned with SpaceX’s Starship SN9 and SN8

The FAA seems satisfied with its investigations into Elon Musk’s last two SpaceX Starship tests, each of which ended in an explosive crash, and the conclusion of those investigations should clear the way for a new SN10 flight in the very near future. Late last month, we broke the news that SpaceX had violated its… Read more

Diablo II is getting remastered for console and PC

Diablo II is getting a big overhaul in a new remaster. After a few leaks, Blizzard officially announced Diablo II Resurrected at its online-only edition of Blizzcon 2021. The new version of the game — which first launched back in 2000 — will launch this year on PC, Switch, PS4, PS5, and Xbox Series X… Read more

Vaio Z Laptops Reinvented: Molded Carbon Fiber Chassis, Starts at $3,579

Home News (Image credit: Vaio) Formerly under the Sony umbrella, Vaio’s Z-series notebooks are known for combining high performance with a light weight and sleek look. From time to time, Vaio redesigns these machines to offer something that its rivals do not, and this week it introduced its all-new Vaio Z-series notebooks in the U.S…. Read more

Instacart, Uber, Lyft, Postmates, and DoorDash totally conned you into paying for Prop 22

Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, and Postmates spent over $200 million campaigning for Proposition 22, the most expensive ballot measure in California history, successfully convincing voters that they couldn’t properly pay and protect their workers if they were forced to classify them as full employees — at least, not without cutting back service or substantially raising… Read more