Author: Press Room
Handheld gaming is having a moment. If you’re looking for the best way to play your games on the go, you’ve come to the right place. From big hitters like the Switch and Steam Deck, to powerful Windows machines, cloud-based creations and curios like the Playdate, we’ve reviewed the best handheld gaming console you can buy right now. To test the best handheld gaming console contenders, we use them in every situation we think you will. That meant long sessions on the sofa, dealing with our backlogs in bed, killing time during flights and even booting up a game in…
The summer is over, and with the days shortening and the temperatures dropping, our thoughts are turning away from wholesome outdoor activities and back to one of our favourite things: lying on the sofa binge-watching TV and movies on streaming services all weekend. Don’t worry – we’ll make sure we get up to take a walk at regular invervals (even if it’s just to the fridge and back to re-up on Quorn snack eggs and Coke Zero). But in all honesty, there’s plenty to keep us welded to the couch in September 2026. Like all the new movies and TV…
For a glorious few years in the mid-1980s, Sega’s Super Scaler tech hurled video games at your face with enough force to rearrange your eyeballs. Hang-On made rival motorcycling games look pathetic, until Sega’s own Enduro Racer stole its thunder. Space Harrier then gave us the dazzling space shooter we never knew we needed. But OutRun was the real star. Nothing beat parking your backside in that glorious sit-down cab. Shame you couldn’t drive it home from the arcade afterwards though. Still, thoughtful of Sega to let you have a nice sit-down while you played. Alas, not every version of OutRun was this fancy. Many cabinets were more traditional stand-up…
David Lynch spent most of his career making audiences uneasy. Eraserhead turned new fatherhood into a waking nightmare. Blue Velvet found something rotten underneath a tidy suburban lawn. Twin Peaks, which is still talked about a lot, took a small-town murder and used it as a door to somewhere much stranger. Then, in 1999, that same director made a movie the MPAA rated G, and Walt Disney Pictures put its name on it in the US. The film is The Straight Story, and it’s about a 73-year-old man who drives a lawn mower across two states to see his brother.…
Star Wars is science fiction, but only just. It’s not possible for humans to travel at the speed of light, the Force works way more like magic than science, and the odds are low that any version of the future will include an order of warrior monks who fight with laser swords. None of this is to say that Star Wars movies aren’t fun, just that using the term “science fiction” to describe them is mostly honorary. But if you want to read a sci-fi story that’s a little more down to earth, you have options. The Mars trilogy by…
Resident Evil started as a video game before becoming a movie franchise. The original 1996 video game focused on a group of characters trapped in the mysterious Spencer Mansion while all hell broke loose. Later games expanded the series into outbreaks, biological experiments, and monsters, turning it into a more action-heavy survival horror. The first Resident Evil movie hit screens in 2002 and took some of those ideas in a different direction, eventually becoming its own franchise. With a new Resident Evil reboot on the way, now is a good time to check out some films that have things in…
I don’t hate AI. You might think I’m only saying that so when Skynet inevitably trawls the internet, there’s a slim chance it won’t instruct a T-800 to punch me into a paste. But it’s more than that. AI has largely become synonymous with bad things, but it’s capable of goodness too. Science fiction envisioned a future where robots did all the boring jobs, while humans lived lives of luxury. But today, generative AI churns out images and video, making it harder for creators to make a living and for everyone else to tell reality from fiction. And devices increasingly suggest people outsource…
If you frequently switch between a dedicated e-reader and a smartphone app, you’ve probably come across one of the most annoying software problems for e-readers: sync issues. For years, moving from a Kobo e-reader to the mobile app—or the other way around—often meant manually turning pages to find where you left off, since bookmarks wouldn’t update properly. But now, Rakuten Kobo has completely rebuilt the entire bookmarking and progress syncing system from the ground up, removing the outdated syncing framework in place since the company’s earliest days of making ereaders. Related Kobo and StoryGraph are now synced, and book lovers…
3 Body Problem is one of the best sci-fi series on Netflix right now, an ambitious story of alien invasion based on a celebrated trilogy of books. But there’s another sci-fi Netflix show that’s in the exact position, although far fewer people have heard about it. And that’s a huge shame, considering that it’s even better. What is The Eternaut about? This show builds slow, and it’s the better for it The Eternaut released its first season on Netflix in April 2025. Based on the Argentinian graphic novel originally published in 1957, it’s set in Buenos Aires, and begins with…
Yearly streaming service price hikes feel as sure as the tide returning each day. Endless, permanent, inescapable, and often slapped on your account without warning, streaming services know that, for the most part, they have a captive audience. Either that, or they have an audience of folks like me — often locked into a platform that multiple people are using to watch shows. But it doesn’t have to be like this. Even in 2026, there are multiple free streaming platforms absolutely rammed full of amazing TV shows and movies, and it’s time you started taking full advantage. So if you’re…