Gaming

Edge Studio’s take on Arkham Horror tries to bridge the eldritch gap between board games and tabletop RPGs.

2023 was bad, but 2024 looks even worse.

Netflix has removed Grand Theft Auto 3 and Vice City from its gaming library, a year after the games were introduced as part of the Grand Theft Auto: The Definitive Edition Trilogy.

Big corporations turned video games from an engaging artistic medium into something addictive and gambling-adjacent.

Oh, and it’s a great video game, too.

It was a bit of a weird year for Apple’s subscription gaming service. 2024 saw very few notable exclusives launch on Apple Arcade; instead, the service was fleshed out with a number of big games that you can already play on other platforms.

We have only one example of biology forming in the universe – life on Earth. But what if life can form in other ways? How do you look for alien life when you don’t know what alien life might look like?

Summary Use the Settings app to turn off animation effects. Disable visual effects through Advanced System Properties for snappier performance. Fine-tune the visual effects without compromising on usability. Windows 11 and 10 have multiple animations and visual effects for better presentability.

In 2024, podcasts are about as mainstream as media gets. Sure, their audiences are hugely fragmented and largely invisible to one another — the monoculture remains dead and rotting.

Last fall I was in the thick of a home renovation project, doom scrolling thousands of light fixtures in search of clean, modern designs I didn’t hate.