Microsoft makes huge bet on gaming IP

Archaeologists find “lost golden city” buried under sand for 3,400 years

Enlarge / Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a 3400-year-old city just outside Luxor, dating back to the reign of Amenhotop III, grandfather to King Tut. (credit: Zahi Hawass) A team of Egyptian archaeologists has unearthed what some describe as an industrial royal metropolis just north of modern-day Luxor, which incorporates what was once the ancient Egyptian […]

Surface Duo Inspection –Orphaned Windows hardware Creates a Bad Android Apparatus

It is very large. After among the strangest run-ups to start in smartphone background, the Microsoft Surface Duo is still here. Microsoft’s first-ever Android telephone (sorry, we are not counting on that the Nokia X) was announced and demoed that an whole year earlier its launch, hinting at what a long and twisting road the Surface […]

Putting Elden Ring’s 12 million sales in context

Enlarge / The lord of all he surveys… in terms of sales, that is. (credit: FromSoftware) If you’ve even talked to someone who plays a lot of video games lately, you shouldn’t be surprised that Elden Ring—with its combination of open-world exploration and punishing Souls-like difficulty—is a huge hit. Still, we were taken aback when […]