It’s time to kick your cable box, and pricy cable TV bill, to the curb.Thanks to streaming, you don’t need cable or satellite service anymore to watch all of the TV shows, movies , news and sporting events live or on-demand.And if you’re used to your cable box’s DVR, live […]
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Leaked Chromebooks with RGB keyboards show HP, Lenovo getting serious about gaming models
We’ve known that gaming-focused Chromebooks could be on the horizon since Nvidia announced plans to bring its high-end DLSS and ray tracing graphics technologies to the notebook devices all the way back at the 2021 Game Developers conference.But, can anything truly be called a “gaming” version of something without RGB […]
The eject button held all the power on the original Xbox – The Verge
The most important button on the original Xbox wasn’t the power button: it was the button to eject the disc tray. Conceptually, this doesn’t make sense.Of course the power button should be the most important button — it turns on (and off) the whole console.But that attitude is steeped in […]
Microsoft is making its Xbox subscriptions more flexible after UK regulator steps in
Microsoft is making its Xbox subscriptions a little more flexible after a UK regulator raised concerns.The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) “has secured undertakings with Microsoft” that will improve accidental renewals for Xbox Live Gold or Xbox Game Pass subscriptions. Microsoft has agreed to offer refunds to Xbox subscribers […]
The news here isn’t that IO Interactive—which has historical
The news here isn’t that IO Interactive—which has historically been reticent in doling out a bevy of publicity screenshots for its hit stealth game, Hitman 3 —published a decadent 4K screenshot of suave hero Agent 47 pouring a glass of Argentinian Malbec.No, no, that’s just icing on the cake: IO […]
With a boom on the horizon, are old video games the new vinyl?
By Tim Biggs January 29, 2022 — 5.00am Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size Advertisement After 30 years on the market Nintendo’s Game Boy is again hot property, fetching booming prices among nostalgic gamers and speculative investors.And it’s not just cartridges for Nintendo’s old handheld that […]
When GameStop Redditors Gave Wall Street the Middle Finger
In early 2021, GameStop’s stock price suddenly and astronomically skyrocketed , peaking on Jan.28 at $483/share—close to 200 times as much as its April 2020 all-time low of $2.57/share.This explosion rocked Wall Street, became national news, and turned those behind its ascent into overnight financial-industry celebrities .GameStop: Rise of the […]
I’m a professional TV reviewer and these are the 9 items that make up my dream home theater setup
Prices are accurate at the time of publication. When you buy through our links, Insider may earn an affiliate commission.Learn more. Steven Cohen/Insider I love movies and TV, so a capable home theater system is a must-have for my living room.After piecing together components for years, I finally completed my […]
‘Marvel’ actor Evangeline Lilly shares that she attended anti-vaccine mandate rally
Actor Evangeline Lilly revealed she attended the Defeat the Mandates rally in Washington D.C., the same event where Robert F.Kennedy Jr.came under fire for his comments comparing U.S.vaccination policies to the Holocaust.Lilly, who plays Hope Van Dyne / The Wasp in Marvel’s “Ant-Man” films, posted photos from the rally to […]
Blue State Blues: Maybe George Soros Should Destabilize China for a Change
Left-wing billionaire George Soros is one of the few supervillains largely absent from my colleague Peter Schweizer’s book, Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win . Schweizer exposes the way in which China has bought off much of America’s political, cultural, and financial elite, especially on the left, […]