Aug 2, 2026From 8-Bit Sprites to Ray Tracing: How Game Graphics Became Almost UnrecognizableHow did games go from a handful of blocky sprites to real-time ray tracing? The evolution is stranger—and more ingenious—than it looks.PPhilip Peck
Jul 31, 2026The Steam Deck Is Slower Than New Handhelds. It May Still Be the One They’re All ChasingNew handheld PCs are faster than the Steam Deck, but Valve's real advantage was never raw performance. In 2026, the rest of the industry is proving it.PPhilip Peck
Jul 29, 2026OLED Burn-In Is Not Dead. The 10,500-Hour Test Every Gamer Should UnderstandOLED monitors look incredible, but burn-in still exists. New long-term testing shows what has improved, what has not, and how gamers should think about the risk.PPhilip Peck
Jul 24, 2026Old Games Really WERE Harder But Not for the Reason You ThinkOld games often were harder than modern games, but difficulty wasn't always the goal. Economics, storage limits and design conventions had a lot to do with it.PPhilip Peck
Jul 22, 2026We Used to Write Save Passwords on Paper. Now Your Game Follows You Around the WorldFrom passwords scribbled in notebooks to memory cards, hard drives and Steam Cloud, here's how saving a game evolved over four decades.PPhilip Peck
Jul 6, 2026Nintendo Switch 2 Sold 23.68 Million Units. So Why Does Its First Year Still Feel Weird?Switch 2 has sold 23.68 million units, yet its first year has produced surprisingly mixed reactions. Here is what Nintendo got right and what still feels unresolved.PPhilip Peck
Jul 5, 2026Cheat Codes Didn’t Disappear by Accident. Here’s What Happened to ThemGames once hid god mode, infinite lives and absurd secret codes everywhere. Why did developers include them—and why did cheat codes largely disappear?PPhilip Peck
May 14, 2026Windows 10 Gamers Have About Two Months Before Nvidia Moves On. Should You Finally Upgrade?Nvidia's final Windows 10 Game Ready driver arrives in October 2026. Here is what changes, what keeps working, and whether gamers should move to Windows 11.PPhilip Peck
Jan 8, 202615 PC Games From the ’90s That Are Somehow Still Better Than Most New GamesDoom, Fallout, StarCraft, Half-Life and more: 15 PC classics from the 1990s that remain genuinely worth playing today.PPhilip Peck
May 17, 2025Road Rash Is 35 Years Old — So Why Does It Still Feel Ridiculously Fast?Road Rash was released in 1991, yet its motorcycle races can still feel astonishingly fast. Here’s how a 16-bit game pulled off the illusion.PPhilip Peck
