Zoomable magazine archive lets you plunge eyeball-first into personal computing’s first baby steps through the 70s and beyond

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Byte magazine is very much before my time. First published in September 1975, Byte magazine’s in-depth technical coverage of this new-fangled thing called microcomputers earned it a loyal readership. Also notable was the fact that the monthly publication didn’t focus on just one platform, but the entire field of small personal computers. The print edition … Read more

Final Fantasy 14’s Fan Fest dates have players crunching the numbers, and it’s left them more nervous than excited

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Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn turned 12 years old this week—pause while I crumble into dust. Alongside a sweet ol’ video message from director and producer Naoki Yoshida came the news I and many others have been waiting for: dates and locations for this expansion’s Fan Festivals. There are two reasons these dates are … Read more

Framework’s promise of an upgradeable gaming laptop has finally been made real as Nvidia steps into the void left by AMD

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Framework has finally broken the silence on the future of its modular 16-inch gaming laptop, the Framework 16. And the good news is that it actually has one. With AMD essentially exiting the mobile GPU market this generation the company only had one option, and that was to turn to Nvidia. Today, it has announced … Read more

AMD just revealed that its current RDNA 4 GPUs have a clever ‘modular’ architecture—here’s hoping it signals a broader range of next-gen graphics cards

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AMD’s RDNA 4 GPUs, including the Radeon RX 9070 XT, have been out since February. But only now has AMD revealed that they are based on a clever modular architecture. AMD held a deep dive into its RDNA 4 graphics tech at the Hot Chips 2025 conference yesterday. And perhaps the most intriguing new disclosure … Read more

Activision finally acknowledges Call of Duty skins problem, decides cosmetics won’t carry forward in Black Ops 7: ‘Some of you have said we’ve drifted from what made Call of Duty unique in the first place. That feedback hits home’

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The improbable has happened. Following a lukewarm reception to Call of Duty: Black Ops 7’s reveal, Activision is walking back its decision to carry forward all Black Ops 6 weapons and skins into the new game. While forward compatibility is generally a popular feature, this is really about Call of Duty’s uglification problem: Many weren’t … Read more

Atari now owns the rights to five Ubisoft games: Cold Fear, I Am Alive, Child of Eden, Grow Home, and Grow Up

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Ubisoft has reached into the back of the cupboard, grabbed the intellectual property rights for five games it wasn’t doing anything with, and sold them to Atari. The five games are Cold Fear (which is basically Resident Evil on a boat), I Am Alive (a post-apocalyptic survival platformer), Child of Eden (a psychedelic rhythm game), … Read more

You can accidentally doom your Elden Ring Nightreign team by attacking its newest enhanced boss at the wrong time

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Nightreign – Taming the Tricephalos – YouTube Watch On I’ve been playing Elden Ring Nightreign since it came out. I’ve killed ice dragons, flying centaurs, and a jellyfish god. What could be so hard about fighting a three-headed dog? Quite a lot, it turns out. The enhanced version of Nightreign’s first boss is easily one … Read more