Fortnite Summer Smash: chasing heroes, chasing dreams
Who’d have guessed twelve months ago that Fortnite would hold a major esports event at the Australian Open with the biggest prize pool in our nation’s history?

Here's five things Sonos should do before trying to compete in the headphones market
Sonos wants to make headphones? Hmmm... instead of going to fight a new warfront in consumer tech land, here's some suggestions to extend what they already do

Heroes of the Storm is getting a new community tournament in February
Blizzard shocked fans when they announced they were shutting down the Heroes Global Championship at the end of 2018. But now the esports community is stepping

The Scrapyard podcast: 2019 will be a very important year for Blizzard!
We're back after the summer break (which included a literal break of a bone, so things were slower than we expected...) and this is a short and sweet catch up

A 'self-driving' Tesla ran down an autonomous robot at CES 2019 in the most CES incident possible
Who's at fault? The Tesla driver? The Tesla autopilot? The Promobot that was weirdly standing on the street like it'd been out late drinking? Is somebody

The Commodore 64 bass keytar is even better than you could imagine
A keytar with the body of a Commodore 64? Very cute. Oh, wait... the pick up actually sends sound into the WORKING C64 to create chiptune vibes that can be

Dreams beta becomes a PT nightmare but OMG how amazing is this game/tool going to be?
PT. A demo that for a now never-to-be-made Silent Hill game that was just one hallway but freaked the hell out of everyone who ever experienced it. And then

The actual Uber flying taxi appeared at CES so get ready
The Bell Nexus was unveiled at CES this year and it's the sexy four-passenger air taxi Uber has been working on. With VTOL and super sleek design, those pipe

Samsung Space monitor sticks your screen right on the edge of the desk
Sweet, sweet desk real estate. Where have you been all my life? Samsung's new Space monitor gives back a lot of, well, space, and it also happens to be a

There's no possible way to not spoil something in the new [redacted] trailer
That new superhero trailer about that one that does the cool things can't help but tell us things about what happens after that other big movie with the
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These Glitch art playing cards will give everyone a headache at your next poker night
You can stick to your boring cards picked up at the local newsagents if you like. Next time I hold a fancy card night, I'm dropping these freaks on the table

Hyundai offers up an amazing vehicle concept to do whatever you damn well need it to
Extreme medical assistant? Urban taxi? 21st Century mini AT-AT? It's all there in the Hyundai Elevant concept vehicle that blends typical cruising modes with

Yes, the Razer Raptor PC monitor is sexy, but nothing is sexier than its cable management
Pretty pictures? Smooth refresh rates? Fancy Chroma lighting? Yes, yes. All those things and more are in Razer's first desktop monitor release. But when you

The world just got its first Babel Fish thanks to Google Assistant's real-time Interpreter Mode
With 27 supported languages out of the gate, Google just made the world a little bit smaller with the arrival of real-time translation of conversations. OK

Jordan Peele's sci-fi 'Weird City' YouTube Original series has a really weird trailer
Jordan Peele is trying to replace Charlie Brooker as our modern anthology hero du jour. In the process, we're getting his sci-fi anthology series, Weird

Gorgeous Marvel 'First Ten Years' hero and villain prints a worthy momento of this killer film sequence
We're closing in on the end of the first 'era' of Marvel Studios movies, with Avengers: Endgame exactly 100 sleeps away (yes, I'm counting). And now artist

Valve's Artifact CCG looking like a relic all too soon
Steam stats on how active Artifact's player base is suggests Valve's Dota 2 spin-off CCG Artifact could already be on its way to the dust heap.

LG's rollable OLED TV is a stunning update to how we think about televisions
It's been a long time since a TV appeared at CES that genuinely got anyone excited. We've seen some clever new bezels, even frames, added to change how TVs

HTC adds eye tracking to VR with its Vive Pro Eye headset
The Vive Pro still feels like a pretty recent upgrade from HTC, but they're not letting that stop them from an upgrade. The HTC Pro Eye adds internal eye

How well can a real city planner play SimCity 2000?
Part education lesson in real city planning, part critique of what's wrong with the game. And next time I play I'll remember to stick to 6x6 grids for sure.
