The trailer for Far Cry 6 featuring a very familiar voice for modern TV fans. Roughly six weeks before Far Cry 6 ‘s upcoming launch on PC and consoles, Ubisoft elected to unlock the entirety of this first-person shooter’s opening beats for a press-only, hands-on demo. This kind of access differs from the carefully selected […]
Enlarge (credit: jozefmicic via Getty Images ) As a relatively isolated junior sysadmin, I remember seeing answers on Experts Exchange and later Stack Exchange that baffled me. Authors and commenters might chain 10 commands together with pipes and angle brackets—something I never did in day-to-day system administration. Honestly, We doubted the real-world value of that. […]
Enlarge / Welcome back, yet again, to Myst Island. (credit: Cyan Worlds, Inc. ) This week, eight months after a touched-up version of 1993’s Myst landed exclusively on the Oculus Quest VR system , the same remake has been further touched up and made available on more devices—including non-VR options. This remade version of the […]
Enlarge / Take the Google Messaging quiz! Can you name all the icons? (credit: Ron Amadeo) Google Talk, Google’s first-ever instant messaging platform, launched on August 24, 2005. This company has been in the messaging business for 16 years, meaning Google has been making messaging clients for longer than some of its rivals have existed. But thanks […]
It’s hard to get a good look at the titular monsters in Aliens: Fireteam Elite, mostly because they’re otherwise flanking your squad and raising interstellar hell. The results are a surprising blast. 2013’s Aliens: Colonial Marines was arguably the last huge video game to focus on the “Aliens with an S” side of all things […]
Raz is back in the long-awaited sequel Psychonauts 2 . [credit: Double Fine / Xbox Game Studios ] Psychonauts 2 is the imperfect, astounding, hilarious, memorable, beautiful, long, drama-filled interactive cartoon for anyone who yearns for a certain era associated with 3D-gaming nostalgia. If that sounds like you, play this new game-of-the-year contender as soon […]
Enlarge / We tested these TP-Link outdoor Wi-Fi bridges—both 2.4GHz and 5GHz versions—across 80 meters of partially-wooded terrain, with great success. (credit: Jim Salter) Extending your Wi-Fi properly from one building to another is, unfortunately, a bit of a secret art—but it doesn’t need to be either difficult or expensive. The secret lies mostly in […]
If this desktop doesn’t look hauntingly familiar to you, you either didn’t live through the 1990s—or perhaps just didn’t live through them right. [credit: Jim Salter ] Today, I test-drove an in-development operating system project that seems almost disturbingly tailored to me specifically: SerenityOS. I cannot possibly introduce SerenityOS more accurately than its own website […]
Enlarge (credit: Corey Gaskin) In the game of fitness wearables, it’s hard to give everyone what they want. That’s why Garmin offers a seemingly endless array of watches , Apple currently sells no less than three Apple Watches , and Fitbit has an array of wearables from kid-centric trackers to a smartwatch the company hopes […]
Androids: The team that built the Android operating system is a new book from longtime Android engineer Chet Haase. Haase has been on the Android team since 2010, and he interviewed dozens of Googlers for this book, which offers a behind-the-scenes look at early Android development. With Haase’s permission, we’re giving readers a look at […]