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First up, we’re diving into Star Wars Zero Company — is this tactical spin-off actually worth your time, or does it fumble the Force? We’ll break down the full review.
Then we’re switching gears into the world of Divinum, sharing our hands-on gameplay impressions and whether it’s earning a spot in your backlog.
There’s a new office gadget that I want to show you: The Ulanzi Dial. I can show you how this little dial can fit into your workflow to make your work easier.
After that, we’re getting a little more introspective with a deep dive into the psychology of identity — and how that intersects with gatekeeping in VR spaces. Who gets to belong, who decides, and why does it matter so much to us?
Here’s all the news articles mentioned in the podcast:
Xbox
- Someone discovered that Windows 11 nukes your GPU drivers if you leave your laptop in eco mode
- ‘All of a sudden we have yearly layoffs’: Bethesda artist says ‘something changed’ under Microsoft
- Microsoft has been served a subpoena over ‘Grand Theft Auto 6’
- Why your new gamepad pretends to be an Xbox 360 controller, and why that’s actually brilliant
- 5 classic Xbox 360 games that are unplayable today5 classic Xbox 360 games that are unplayable today
- 5 Xbox Game Pass games that’ll take you forever to beat
- Microsoft’s Xbox 360 emulator is arriving 13 years late, and Xenia already proved it doesn’t matter
- Xbox Game Pass adding another day-one release on August 25
- Which Nvidia GPU is equivalent to the Xbox Series X?
- Why your Xbox Series X fan might be running loud
- So much for “fans” as Xbox Series X25 sells out in seconds with a good chunk going to scalpers
Valve
- After 20 years, classic 2D platformer comes to Steam, and it’s free
- Analyst isn’t convinced Epic Games Store can recover at this point
- Steam drops 5 new free games this August you can keep forever
- Banned first-person shooter game officially returns 24 years later
- Which Nvidia GPU is the equivalent to the Steam Deck?
Sony
- PlayStation 5 ‘unrepairable’ fault could kill your PS5 forever
- PlayStation reminds players of its all-digital future in the worst way possible
- PlayStation Plus reveals essential games for September 2026
Other technology news
- 4 PC components you shouldn’t undervolt
- Gamer pairs RTX 3090 with RTX 3050 to offload frame generation work
- 4 PC building habits that make your rig louder and hotter for no reason
- That 250GB SSD in your junk drawer is a hidden performance booster
- AMD didn’t want anyone testing the Radeon RX 9050. Reviewers got one anyway, and now we know why
- Your top PC fan might be making your CPU run hotter
- Integrated graphics are no longer a compromise — modern iGPUs match last-gen discrete cards and cost nothing extra
- Linux has an AI problem and there’s no fix yet
- 6 PC habits that secretly slow your system down
- 5 things to salvage from old PCs before recycling them
- Ultra graphics settings are a scam: Why high is good enough, if not better, for most players
- DDR5 might be the “lost generation” of PC RAM
- I used my Nvidia GPU’s VRAM as system swap, and it freed me from buying more memory
- I took these 6 devices off my Wi-Fi, and my internet has never been faster
- Microsoft hides these 7 Windows 11 settings for a reason
- Your router’s channel width setting is sabotaging your gaming, and the fix takes 30 seconds
- Your house can have Ethernet everywhere, and here’s how I did it without drilling a single hole
- MSI brings DDR4 back to gaming laptops amidst DRAM crisis
- 5 embarrassing gaming PC sins you’re probably guilty of
- Don’t get rid of your old graphics card yet: 3 ways you can still use it
- Linux does these 5 things effortlessly that Windows still struggles with