Latest articles by Wes Fenlon
Windows 11 is going to start quietly preloading File Explorer in the background to make it faster, which is a good reminder that you should probably try a different file manager anyway
News Other than the addition of tabs, Windows' file Explorer hasn't felt meaningfully improved in a long time.
Windows used to secretly use green screens to render videos, which is how you could trick MS Paint into becoming a video player
News Video playback on old computers was a whole lot of smoke and mirrors.
'We cloned Gmail, except you're logged in as Epstein and can see his emails' is the most impressively cursed tech project of the year
News Way better than combing through a bunch of PDFs.
We used to be a society (with a good Windows Task Manager icon)
News? The latest Windows 11 Task Manager icon takes Microsoft's modern amorphous blob aesthetic to its (il)logical limit.
Vampire Survivors is getting a deckbuilding dungeon crawler spin-off that looks purpose built to annihilate your free time
News Vampire Crawlers is coming next year.
A year after Gearbox released Risk of Rain 2 DLC so broken the developer admitted it put the game 'in a really bad place,' it's finally got a win: the new DLC's 96% positive reviews have blasted it up Steam's top sellers chart
News It works this time!
No amount of money can buy being goated with the sauce
Sauceless Not a must cop.
Borderlands 3 Shift codes: Every active Shift code and how to redeem them
Free keys An updated list of the latest Borderlands 3 shift codes for Golden Keys, and how to unlock special loot.
Apple's 1991 Macintosh shipped with a bug that should've stopped it from booting, but no one ever knew because an undocumented CPU trick 'almost too crazy to be true' miraculously made it work
News And it's all thanks to the MAME emulator.
Arc Raiders guide: Quests, loot locations, and tips on the best gear
Archaeology Knowing is half the battle. The other half is robots.
The '80s and '90s PC games unbelievably still being updated today
stayin alive They may have arrived decades ago, but the work (and play) continues.
Even the developers of Steam fave Deep Rock Galactic feel the heat from this year's popular multiplayer games: 'Competition is fierce'
News Next year's Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core will launch into a very different Steam landscape than the first game.
A short history of John Romero wishing Sandy Petersen well before nuking his Doom tweets from orbit with ruthless precision
News John Romero is about to hope you're doing well.
Deep Rock Galactic's roguelite spin-off is delayed, but in the meantime it's getting another season of new stuff including a 'tomb-like' biome
News When it does arrive, spin-off Rogue Core is also getting something miners have asked for for years: a fifth class.
Sorry PC gamers, Valve isn't announcing Half-Life 3 today
Unconfirmed It's been a big announcement day for Valve. Just not that big.
During Microsoft's peak-anti piracy era in the early 2000s, it awkwardly got caught shipping Windows XP with audio files made using pirated software
News The giveaway was the name of the cracker, "Deepz0ne," buried in the metadata.
FromSoft has finally plundered its work from 2012 to put the best Dark Souls boss in Elden Ring Nightreign
News Artorias of the Abyss comes to the Lands Between.
My new favorite deep Windows lore: Microsoft once broke its Bluetooth driver code by sticking a ® symbol in the name of its own mouse
News Never let your legal department write driver code!
Don't sleep on the new solarpunk colony sim from devs behind Firewatch, Mini Motorways, Gone Home and more
News Generation Exile has been swallowed up by the storm of end-of-year releases on Steam.
Well, PC gamers, time to make peace with the fact that we probably won't be playing GTA 6 until, like, 2028 unless we cave in and buy the console version
News Another Grand Theft Auto 6 delay likely pushes its yet-unannounced PC version even further into the future.
I just learned that before the internet, 'online' actually meant 'offline' and it's turned my world upside down
News? Back in the '80s, "up" meant "online" BUT THERE WAS ALSO "ON-LINE!!!"
Microsoft was apparently so embarrassed by Windows 98's infamous on-stage Blue Screen of Death it built a new testing room on campus to ensure it would never happen again
News Talk about a powerful faux pas.
Finally! The Steam Deck can now download games in a new 'display-off, low-power' mode before automatically going to sleep
News Sweet dreams, Steam Deck.
My favorite genre of Arc Raiders videos so far is people discovering why Leapers are called that
News TFW you have F'd around, and then found out.
After being inspired by Toby Fox to make his first RPG in decades, cult developer Yoshiro Kimura couldn't help but make it weird: 'Some people are going to look at it and go that's kind of odd, but that's just the way my games turn out'
Kid stuff The Undertale-inspired Stray Children, like Kimura's '90s RPG Moon, is part oddball story, part genre commentary.
