Month: June 2022

Adam Patrick Murray/IDG Tactical RPGs have roots way back in the ancient times of gaming, almost as old as standard JRPGs themselves. But the hybrid of strategy and story-based gaming is having a renaissance on modern PCs, with AAA titles like XCOM sitting next to new indie darlings like Into the Breach and refreshed classics…

Matt Elliott/IDG If you’ve been shopping around for a brand new laptop, you’re in luck. Amazon Prime Day 2022 is slated to arrive on July 12 and 13, 2022. However, you can find some killer laptop deals ahead of the two-day event. Prime Day is Amazon’s annual event that offers awesome deals on everything from…

Prime Day is Amazon’s annual smorgasbord of consumerism, a parade of deals that lasts multiple days. This year it’s scheduled for July 12th and 13th. The last couple of years have been rough for people searching for graphics cards— there were exactly zero Prime Day GPU deals in 2021 — but a crashing cryptocurrency market…

Take a stroll down the halls of /r/battlestations, and it won’t be long before you start spotting a bunch of gaming PC setups that include the latest game consoles, too. PC gaming monitors that play nice with high-end consoles aren’t a new idea, but Sony is taking an opposite approach with its latest “Inzone” accessories.…

Amazon If you’re a Prime member, you can speed up your home Wi-Fi for under $200 today. Leading up to Prime Day, Amazon is selling a three-pack of the Amazon Eero 6 Plus for $194. The units can cover up to 4,500 square feet in a snuggly blanket of Wi-Fi 6 goodness. We haven’t reviewed…

Nextbite, an online ordering and delivery management system helping restaurant partners successfully enter the virtual restaurant space founded in 2017 , is looking to boost brand awareness with a partnership with delivery-only restaurant Packed Bowls by Wiz Khalifa and advertising on delivery apps like UberEats, DoorDash and Grubhub as well as. The partnership formed in…

It’s been a long time since companies could remain neutral, silent bystanders on the most pressing issues of our time.  When the football player Colin Kaepernick took a knee in 2016 during the national anthem to protest police brutality, the brands he worked with were forced to decide whether they would support him and the…

Despite the volatility in the crypto markets, consumer brands and e-commerce platforms are trying new ways to evolve NFTs from being novel collectibles to something more useful for both consumers and companies.Rather than rolling out branded NFT collections that are just sold or given away, e-commerce platforms and consumer brands have been experimenting with “token-gating”…

After hitting pause on ad spending in esports due to a shift of focus toward the casual side of gaming, non-endemic advertisers are back in force. In the last month, there’s been an influx of non-endemic brand partnerships in the esports industry. Garnier Fructis has partnered with Team Vitality; Honda has signed a naming rights deal…