Author Archives: Michael Crider

Recently, game publisher Epic skirted around long-established App Store and Play Store policies, giving players of the mega-popular game Fortnite a discount for paying for skins directly. Predictably (in fact, we predicted it), Apple and Google pulled … Continue reading →

Attending school from home isn’t a new idea, but it’s become a sudden necessity for a lot of kids and parents. You don’t have to set up a dedicated schoolwork area via a remote connection, but take it from someone who’s worked f… Continue reading →

Today game publisher Epic lowered the price of all the in-app purchases for the smash hit Fortnite, dropping fees for the in-game currency V-Bucks by 20%. The drop applies to all platforms, PC, PS4, Xbox One, and Switch. It also applies to the iPhone a… Continue reading →

The Surface Laptop 3 is one of the best options in the premium “ultrabook” category, with design hand-crafted by Microsoft to show off the best that Windows has to offer. as the latest model it doesn’t often get discounted, but today … Continue reading →

Neo Geo isn’t a household name in the west, unless you’re a fan of classic 2D fighters and shoot-em-ups. But if you are, imagine having a mini cabinet of the legendary MVS arcade platform in your living room, complete with no less than fift… Continue reading →

Do you use Wind Down, the part of Android’s Digital Wellbeing app that helps you get to sleep and stat there? Not anymore, you don’t. As of today that function is called “Bedtime Mode,” in a more on-the-nose bit of branding. The… Continue reading →

Microsoft is getting into cloud game streaming in a big way, with all subscribers to the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate gaining automatic access to stream those games on Android next month. But if you just can’t wait to play Gears 5 on your Pixel 4, you… Continue reading →

The GMMK—short for “Glorious Modular Mechanical Keyboard,” because the Glorious PC Gaming Race manufacturer has heard of subtlety and doesn’t want anything to do with it—tries to make modular keyboards accessible. It&#8217… Continue reading →

Microsoft’s Surface line of tablets has made a name for itself, and plenty of people love its kickstand-with-fold-out-keyboard form factor. So much so that “Surface-style” is now the nomenclature for that really awkward string of dash… Continue reading →

If you like your current Toshiba laptop, I have some bad news: you might not be able to buy a new one. As of August 2020, the company is no longer producing any laptops under its own brand name. Toshiba first made laptops in 1985, but its manufacturing… Continue reading →