How-To Geek

Steam has been around for over 21 years, and it's turning 22 in a few months. That's a big number. And a lot of releases have debuted on the platform through that timeframe. Now, Steam is gaining a bestsellers list that goes back until the launch of Half-Life 2—the first in-house game Valve debuted on Steam.

Few gaming genres are as massively popular as shooter games. Whether it's because of their exciting campaigns or competitive multiplayer, no other genre has come close to replicating the widespread appeal of shooters. However, almost all modern shooters owe their success to a forgotten retro genre.

Apple Music now lets you import libraries and playlists from Spotify and other competing services. However, the feature is currently limited to Australia and New Zealand.

Online competitive multiplayer games are wildly popular, with players around the world battling it out every day. But they've also earned a reputation for being unwelcoming, especially to new players or casuals who care more about fun than being the best of the best.

Browser games are almost as old as the web itself, and believe you me it saved many a boring computer class in high-school, or eternal Friday afternoon at work.

Remember when phones were fun? Back when we had physical buttons galore and moving parts. If you miss the charm of early smartphones, you can relive those days with a three-dimensional, fully interactive, hyper-realistic Nokia 3250 right in your browser window.

When a Chromebook ages, it often sits unused and collects dust. However, with a little effort, you can breathe new life into your old device. From passing it down to your kid to turning it into an e-reader or a digital photo frame, here are some ways to repurpose your old Chromebook.

Google is such a huge search engine, that the very act of searching for something on the net is often referred to as "googling" something. Yet, Google has become a service that not everyone likes for reasons of privacy and, in some cases, even accuracy.

When shopping for a new pair of headphones, one of the most important choices you'll make is whether to go with an open-back or closed-back design. This key difference greatly affects how your headphones sound and feel. So, which type is right for you?

The Samsung Galaxy Tab S10+ just got a big 20% price drop. Originally costing $999.99, this top-tier Android tablet is now priced at $796.56 on Amazon.

You might have seen the news reports with tongue-in-cheek segments noting the uptick in people collecting and listening to cassette tapes. Yes, those fiddly plastic rectangles I thought we'd left long behind once people figured out how to put a CD player in a car.

Humble Raspberry Pi computers have been the brains powering a huge variety of projects. People have shown they can create just about anything with a Pi, and that now includes Polaroid-style instant cameras.

Microsoft's Surface lineup has suffered another setback with the quiet discontinuation of the Surface Laptop Studio 2. While Microsoft has not officially declared the device dead, the company has told resellers that production has stopped.

Against all my personal expectations that the fad would pass, vinyl records continue to be popular and there are hobbyists all over the world saying "no thanks" to digital music and prefer dropping a needle onto a vinyl disc.

You may already know that CSS is a vital technology for styling your web pages. But you don’t need to use it, and your sites can still look good without it.

Wired mice are performant and affordable, but the trade-off of a tether has always been a deal-breaker for me. However, the HyperX Pulsefire Saga has me reconsidering this stance, and not only because of its innovative modular design.

You might not have thought much of Nintendo's recent update that introduced "virtual" game cards to the Nintendo Switch, but when you think about it a little, it has some profound implications for digital games.

Apple Maps is making a major improvement by adding professional ratings and reviews from top experts in the industry. This should help separate Apple from Google since this will help people looking for high-quality reviews, not just user reviews.

While gameplay is the most important part of any game, music is an essential part of setting the mood or getting you pumped for the action that's to come. Over the years I've played thousands of games, and in a few rare cases the music was so good I had to stop what I was doing, and listen.

You’ll soon be able to say “Hey, Copilot” to activate the Copilot chatbot on Windows computers. It’s another way Copilot is slowly replicating the Cortana virtual assistant from the early days of Windows 10.