Dark Souls is a franchise that has traveled down a long and winding path. A successor to Demon’s Souls, it proved to be a surprising hit in the west. It proved to be a very successful endeavor with Dark Souls becoming a gaming icon. It spawned two sequels, inspired Bloodborne, and helped codify a new approach to difficulty in gaming. ...

The Galaxy Note 7 and its propensity to catch on fire was a hot topic in the news this past year. Recalls of the phone cost Samsung billions, essentially forcing them to completely write off a high-end phone. All of the money that went into research and development as well as the mass production of the phones was for nothing, ...

Scanners on phones have come a long way. From shortcuts to sites with QR codes to scanning food bar codes for nutrition information, the camera on our phone is incredibly powerful and allows apps to process information. Homework Help App Socratic took it a step further, and lets you take pictures of a problem that’s stumping you for help working ...

GPS is a crutch that many of us lean on daily. Gone are the days where we pull out a map to try and plan a route, with apps like Waze and Google Maps giving us step by step directions to get to our destination quickly and efficiently. GPS devices for bicycles are nothing new, but Kickstarted compass Beeline takes ...

The Google Pixel and Pixel XL are terrific smartphones that compete with the high-end offerings from the likes of Samsung and Apple. They offer an incredible luxury device to Android fans that lack the performance issues that sometimes plague similar offerings from Samsung. The company is struggling, however, to ship their smartphones out in a timely manner. Without resorting to ...

Twitter’s looping video and social network app Vine was slated for a shutdown back in October, but it looks like the company’s pulling the plug for good starting today. The Vine app was originally going to be pulled from the app store, but Twitter later announced it would be replaced with a lighter app called Vine Camera. In order to ...

I’ve said this before, but there are so many Warhammer 40k games out that you can trip over them. Dozens of them are out, Deathwing, Battlefleet Gothic: Armada, and Eternal Crusade being as recently released as 2016. There doesn’t seem to be any stop to the massive influx of Warhammer 40k games either. The long awaited Dawn of War III ...

The Samsung Galaxy S7 and Apple iPhone 7 are two of the top phones on the market. Both provide some of the best experiences available on mobile today, but how does one choose between two great phones? Below we go over some of the pros and cons of each device and make our recommendation based on phone specifications and the ...

Now that you’re all grown up, you probably don’t have time to play games anymore. But, playing games probably taught you important lessons. Don’t believe me? Here are the six life lessons you can learn from playing video games. Cheating isn’t fun after some time For little kids, video games are really hard. Turning on “Cheat mode” makes gameplay so much easier and a ...

Fire Emblem is a franchise that has a very colorful history. There wasn’t a Fire Emblem game released overseas until the seventh entry in the franchise. Despite that, the series received lukewarm sales outside of Japan, even the eventual remake of the first game. The series was in danger of being discontinued, right until the release of Fire Emblem: Awakening. ...