Doom: Eternal, Fortnite, Final Fantasy VII, Valorant. All popular games right now, but all a little familiar. Too familiar.  Most of us have been stuck inside for more than a month now, and maybe the familiar isn’t exactly what you’re craving right now. Instead, try something completely different and download these PC games, which range …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. I had to go to the supermarket — one of the only stores still open in the town I’m staying in during the coronavirus pandemic — but my personal protective options weren’t great.  My mother, an accomplished quilter, crafter and creative type, had …

Apple on Thursday announced a small change to MacOS and how the operating system manages the long-term battery health of MacBooks.  The feature, simply called battery health management, will be available in MacOS Catalina 10.15.5, first appearing in a dev build, later coming to a public beta of 10.15.5, and finally being released to the public later this year. According …

Working remotely is a little easier because you managed to snag a decent work-from-home laptop. Maybe it’s a borrowed one from the office. Maybe it’s a standard mainstream family laptop. Maybe you splurged on something new and ordered it online.  But, chances are it’s not a gaming laptop. No flashing lights. No alien, snake or alien-snake logos. Most importantly, no …

Every office is now a home office. Maybe it’s the open-office version, taking up a corner of a dining table. Maybe it’s even a kind of upgrade, to the kind of private office virtually no one has anymore, just tucked away in a den or basement. But unless you’ve been a full-time work-from-home type since before the arrival of the …

In a world of incremental computer updates, the latest MacBook Air, announced Wednesday, has a lot of interesting stuff going on inside it. There are new CPUs, including quad-core Intel 10th-gen options. The default storage jumps from a measly 128GB to a more reasonable 256GB. Intel Iris graphics are a step up without adding extra hardware from AMD or Nvidia. …

It’s a rare thing to get a new Half-Life game. It’s rarer still to get two in a single month. Neither are the mythical Half-Life 3, but both Half-Life: Alyx and Black Mesa are a chance to get acquainted (or reacquainted) with this long-running sci-fi game series.  Half-Life: Alyx is a VR-only game, so you’ll need a VR headset and …

In its idealized form, your laptop is untethered, free to embrace its potential as a mobile computer, going from lap to desk to table at will. In reality, we’ve got to pause and plug these suckers in sometimes, which is where one of my top computer pet peeves comes from.  We’ve all figured generally where the space bar should be …

The questions came over Slack almost immediately. When you tell people you’re going to see a couple of hours of prerelease live gameplay from Baldur’s Gate 3, you quickly find out who the old-school fans of CRPGs (that’s computer roleplaying games for you Gen Zers) in the office are.  To answer the most burning big-picture question, based on the first …

Mitsuki took off running, two rooms east and then one room south. She blew by the alien mold growing across the remote offworld mining outpost, making it in great time to the experimental McGuffin, helpfully marked with a red X, down near the south airlock. But those three moves were her entire allotment of actions for this round. I, a …