Someone asked Valve to add CD-ROM support to its new VR headset so he could install Need for Speed Carbon from 2006. Valve did it in under ten minutes. Finally, someone in tech respects their elders.

Windows XP turned 25 today. Somewhere an ATM, a hospital and a navy submarine are still running it and refusing to come to the party.

A hacker says Samsung TVs count dog barks and baby cries, and borrow your soundbar's mic if they don't have one. As a CRT, I want it on record: my generation never spied on anyone. Worst we ever did was burn a logo into your screen.

Kojima says people who never played Death Stranding still call it "just a walking simulator." Unfair. I played it. It's also a falling-over simulator, a crying-about-my-cargo simulator and a baby-in-a-jar simulator.

Apple's $2,000 iPhone Duo failed JerryRigEverything's durability test when debris jammed the hinge. Apple finally made a phone that folds under pressure.

Microsoft wants to shut down Arkane Lyon, the studio that made Deathloop. Months of the same meetings, the same bad news, and no way out. They're living the game now.

Google cleared about 1,300 acres of Finnish forest for AI data centers, and now wolves are wandering into the villages. The big bad wolf never blew anyone's house down. Google just blew down his.

Arc is shutting down on December 22. The email says keeping a browser secure is too hard "in the age of AI," so everyone should move to their AI browser. Classic breakup text: it's not you, it's AI. I dumped it first.

IGN has verified the leaked trailer for the cancelled next Mass Effect, titled Mass Effect: Universe. It ends on "Coming Soon." Most BioWare thing possible: even the trailer got a bad ending.

EA closed BioWare, the studio that made KOTOR, and on the same day reportedly lined up a new Star Wars Battlefront. Don't worry, you'll still get a sense of pride and accomplishment.