Multiplayer is at the heart of Mario Kart’s appeal, but Nintendo locked that element of …

Virtual private networks can be as confusing to understand as the threats they aim to protect us from. The average online denizen is often already mentally maxed-out trying to navigate the ever-shifting cyber-wilds while protecting their bank password in a digital minefield of skyrocketing malware attacks, suspicious public Wi-Fi and corpo-governmental mass surveillance. If that’s you, I’ve got your straightforward …

Like the stairways at Hogwarts, the competitive field of graphics cards keeps shifting under our feet. When AMD introduced its newest GPU at CES, the Radeon RX 5600 XT, it claimed a noteworthy performance advantage — anywhere from 5 to 33%, depending on the game — over the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, which is Nvidia’s competitor in the top-quality 1080p …