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Picture sleeping in a room where the walls show how someone will eventually meet their end. That is the dormitory in “Squid Game,” where the games are painted on the walls all along, out of view behind rows of bunks that are cleared away as players are eliminated.

Handheld gaming PCs require a delicate balance of portability, performance, and price. The good ones, like the Steam Deck OLED, can hit two out of the three. The ROG Xbox Ally X20 doesn’t change much from last year’s Xbox Ally X, except for an OLED screen and a few smart design changes. Oh, and it’s…

Backwards compatibility is a key part of modern gaming consoles. Diehard gamers often salivate over the chance to dive back into titles from past generations–especially if they haven’t been remade or ported to modern consoles. In the current selection of hardware for sale, the Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and PlayStation 5 are backwards…

Sung Jinwoo’s brute-force blueprint: grind, level up, summon a shadow army, and steamroll everything. Well, that is undeniably thrilling. But let’s be real: Solo Leveling plays on easy mode. True LitRPG supremacy isn’t about being handed an unpatchable cheat engine; it’s about breaking a system that was built to kill you.

Video game consoles first became a consumer-grade product in the 1970s, starting with the release of the Magnavox Odyssey. During that period, and for several decades afterward, CRT TVs were the order of the day, with their warm displays and chunky pixels illuminating many a precious gaming memory. In the modern day, older games from…

At the moment, the only new Doctor Who content whirling through space and time is an animated series aimed at preschoolers. But the main show, which has been in limbo for months, is finally taking some big steps forward. As fans already knew, the BBC recently put Doctor Who out for competitive tender and is now…