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I Almost Bought the Wrong Gaming Laptop on Double 11. Here’s the One I Chose Instead.
On a Tuesday night, Chen’s old laptop fan started rattling like a scooter with a loose panel. He had two weeks until Double 11. He opened three tabs: a repair quote, his bank balance, and a laptop listing page. The repair shop wanted 480 yuan for a new fan and thermal paste. He paid. Then he started reading.
By Jin2 days ago in Gamers
Phantom Blade Zero's 88 Isn't a Disappointment. It's Exactly What Chinese Games Needed.
The completion screen read: 36 hours and 25 minutes, good ending, 89% total collection. The reviewer noted that "thanks to the thoughtful map guidance, I took far fewer detours," so those 36-plus hours almost all landed on solid ground. Put that next to a Metacritic score of 88 and an IGN 9, and my judgment is this: it meets expectations, but not the expectation of flawlessness. It meets a harder one: that a Chinese action game has finally reached the international genre benchmark in its core experience.
By Jin2 days ago in Gamers
Crash n the boys street challenge: an unsung video game classic
In the early 90’s there was a video game released on Nintendo with some other video game distributor called Crash and the boys street challenge and I loved that game so much. Given the 80s had just ended. It was like one of those video games made up to look like crash was the rich guy and he had a rich father and they had to compete in an Olympic type games throughout the streets of New York cause that’s where the video game was set And I only made it to the one challenge where they’re swimming in the middle of New York City in the street and it looked like an Olympic size pool but yet it was a great video game nonetheless. Too bad not enough people know about this awesome video game.
By Revista Miko:XCI 8 days ago in Gamers
NBA Jam : a great triumph in sports gaming
Back in the day I had a Sega Genesis Game Gear and it ruled! The one game that I had was “NBA Jam” and it was a great basketball video game. I used to go to the bowling alley when NBA jam video game came out and I would always ask for quarters and change to go to the arcade that was in the bowling alley just to play. It was the first arcade game I ever really played. I loved it. The look and aesthetic of the video game standalone machine was awesome too, as well as the video game that I was playing on it.
By Revista Miko:XCI 8 days ago in Gamers
Steam Is Flooded With AI Games. Players Are Not Buying Them.
In October 2025, Steam Next Fest showed 2,960 games. Of those, 504 disclosed generative AI use. That is 17%. By June 2026, the number of demos had grown to 4,227. Of those, 1,694 carried an AI tag. That is 40%. In the second quarter of 2026, AI games made up about one-third of new Steam releases. Their estimated share of sales was about 10%. In the fourth quarter of 2025, that sales number hit 27%. A few breakout hits pulled it up.
By Jin12 days ago in Gamers
AI Got Crushed by Slay the Spire’s Hardest Mode? I Looked at the Data, and the Headline Falls Apart
200 runs. One win. That is the full record of 20 large language models against the final boss on Slay the Spire ’s A20 difficulty. GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1, and GPT-5.6 Sol trade places atop other leaderboards. Against the Corrupt Heart, their combined win rate was 0.5%.
By Jin12 days ago in Gamers
Buy-to-Play Isn’t Always the Better Deal. My Steam Backlog Proved It.
Many players say the same thing: buy-to-play games are a better deal. At first, that sounds obvious. Free-to-play games cost nothing. Buy-to-play games cost money. How could the paid option be cheaper? Then you play a few free games. You see how they work. Free is the entrance. Inside, gacha, skins, battle passes, monthly cards, first-time recharge bonuses, limited bundles, and seasonal quests pull money and time out of you through thin pipes.
By Jin13 days ago in Gamers
Why DNF Stopped Being Fun (It's Not Nostalgia)
You're sitting in Grandine. One full fatigue bar is gone. A few fake purples lie on the ground. You don't pick them up. In your storage, you still keep the chainsaw, the flamethrower, the Ice Dragon greatsword you dropped back then. Back then, when a boss pink dropped, you could type three lines in guild chat, hands shaking. Now you open the equipment dictionary. Those things are still there. No one talks about them.
By Jin15 days ago in Gamers
We Beat Video Games Before the Internet. Here’s What It Actually Took.
Blow on the Cartridge, Keep Banging into the Wall The TV was convex, with a layer of dust on the screen. Summer afternoon, the fan spinning, the cartridge hot in my hand. I was stuck on World 4 of Super Mario . I’d been down every pipe, stomped every Koopa, the flagpole was on the right, but I couldn’t clear the jump in the middle. I tried twenty times. On the twenty-first, I fell into the pit. Mom called me for dinner. I didn’t answer.
By Jin15 days ago in Gamers
Sony Locked the PS5. Hackers Found a Key. Players Are Stuck in the Middle.
On September 29, 2026, an exploit chain called Relapse became public. This was not a minor security incident. Attackers combined a WebKit browser vulnerability with a kernel-level aio_multi_wait UAF race condition. The result gave them kernel-level physical memory read/write privileges on the PS5. Every official firmware version from 7.00 to 13.60 was affected. That range covers the original fat model, the Slim, and the recently released PS5 Pro.
By Jin15 days ago in Gamers
“Be Comfortable in Your Own Identity”: Andre Agassi’s Advice to Emma Raducanu
Andre Agassi has offered Emma Raducanu a message that goes beyond tennis rankings and match results: focus on becoming the best version of yourself each day and remain comfortable with your own identity.
By Sagheen Khanabout a month ago in Gamers
BLG Didn’t Lose Because of Arrogance
The sin of arrogance, or a fig leaf: BLG's defeat and the LPL's labeling dilemma I. The birth of a label On September 13, in the LPL Split 3 Grand Final, AL defeated BLG 3–1 to lift the organization's first Silver Dragon Cup. A week earlier, BLG had swept AL 3–0 in the winners' bracket final, even shutting them out 20–0 in Game 1. Seven days later, AL answered with a 20–1 in one game, the most complete revenge possible.
By Jinabout a month ago in Gamers