Gaming

Check out some of this year’s hidden and underappreciated gems

From Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth to Balatro, the best games of 2024 offer plenty to be hyped about

Gamers who are free to interact with and explore a game world at their own pace are more relaxed and have improved mental well-being, according to new research. The findings could open the door to using gaming as a therapeutic tool to counter stress and anxiety.

Dying Light’s franchise director breaks down how to perfect the zombie game, and the massive changes The Beast is bringing to the franchise.

2025 brings us the long-awaited release of Grand Theft Auto 6 and one of the most stacked new release schedules in recent memory.

Despite the tight venture capital market, unicorns are still being created every month. Using data from Crunchbase, CB Insights, and PitchBook, TechCrunch tracked down the newly minted unicorns so far this year.

The first three (your operating system, shell, and terminal) are all kind of known quantities – if you’re using bash in GNOME Terminal on Linux, you can more or less reason about how how all of those things interact, and some of their behaviour is standardized by POSIX.

When Buying a Gift in New York was a contact sport. A toy store in 1955. Today, doormen accept our Amazon packages, gift cards materialize in our email, and we track our Temu and TikTok Shop orders on our phones. But not even that long ago, New York was a department-store town.

The careful study of the creature — which washed up dead on a New Zealand beach in July — is the first ever to take place.

Nintendo is inching ever closer to its promised deadline to reveal the Switch’s successor before April 2025. But new leaks from case manufacturers appear to reveal exactly what the Nintendo’s next console could look like, and a few notable upgrades it might have over the original Switch.