Author: Press Room

Looking for the best gaming headset? We’ve tested more pairs than we can count, and we know what separates a decent set from one that really enhances your play. Here you’ll find our favourite wired and wireless models, covering a range of budgets. Sure, you could stick with your TV speakers or a basic pair of headphones, but a proper gaming headset changes the experience. In multiplayer, it can give you a real advantage by letting you hear enemies before they appear. In single-player, it adds depth and immersion, pulling you further into the world on screen. Most of our…

YouTube has evolved into the internet’s most expansive library of tutorials, explainers, documentaries, and niche deep dives. Yet paradoxically, actually watching long-form content on the platform can be frustrating. You are 20 minutes into a 40-minute video when a sprawling sponsor segment appears. The recommendation sidebar tugs you toward distractions, a familiar nuisance if you are sick of irrelevant YouTube suggestions. And you often have no idea whether the hour-long tutorial you are about to start is insightful or misleading. The good news is that you are not stuck with YouTube in its default, chaotic form. With a carefully chosen…

Slim TVs might look slick on your living room wall, but they don’t leave much space for speakers. And if there’s one way to ruin movie night, it’s with disappointing audio. Don’t fancy filling your room with surround sound speakers? These contenders for the title of best soundbar deliver beefy bass, room-filling volume and clarity that won’t leave you reading subtitles – all from a single bar that sits neatly beneath your TV. So, you don’t need a fleet of separates to sort out your subpar sound. Better yet, you don’t have to drop thousands to give your ears an…

Your shiny new MacBook Pro – one of the best laptops on sale right now – or iMac has booted up and is sitting there, expecting something to happen. What next? You could do something boring, like setting up email (yawn) or aimlessly surfing the internet in Safari until your eyes glaze over. Instead, get creative, be productive, and make some noise with our selection of the best Mac apps around. Store wars The apps in our round-up are mostly available on the Mac App Store, although some can be bought directly from their creators; several can only be bought…

The festive season is finally upon us, which for many means stoking up the central heating, loading a plate with mince pies and settling down for an evening (or perhaps even a full day) of televisual entertainment. Thankfully, there’s a whole mass of new TV shows and movies coming to streaming services in December, so you won’t have to go back to watching Star Wars for the millionth time. All of the movies and TV shows below are available to stream on streaming services, ranging from tear-jerking family dramas to earth-shattering Korean disaster flicks. And we can’t forget the long-awaited…

When Lego founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen pivoted his business to plastic bricks, we wonder if he had any idea of the global phenomenon Lego would become. Today, there are many themes, for kids and adult collectors alike. It’s hard to keep track. So we’re doing it for you, with the Stuff guide to the best upcoming Lego sets. Read: The best large Lego sets you should buy Note: this list covers officially announced Lego sets. There are no rumours, leaks, nor models the writer ham-fistedly pieced together from a pile of random bricks. March 2026 Lego sets Consider this… Batman Logo ($79.99/£69.99 • 678 pieces): You…

I ditched cable TV years ago, and Netflix was a big reason for that. But between Netflix, Disney+, and Prime Video, I was juggling too many subscriptions. So when Netflix came up for renewal, I figured it was time to cut one loose. To my surprise, I didn’t miss it as much as I thought I would. A few months later, I cancelled Prime Video too, and realized it’s hard to miss something you don’t have to look forward to. I was paying for content I barely watched, and all those choices weren’t making my evenings any better. It made…

Sci-fi movies can really explore a plethora of topics, from advancing technology to dystopian futures. Personally, one of my favorite, more underrated aspects of the genre is when the concept of cloning is injected into a narrative, which is why Mickey 17 checked so many boxes for me. It’s truly an underrated sci-fi gem that a lot of people missed in 2025, which has been a very common theme in science fiction films. But for as good and wacky as Mickey 17 is, it made me seek out some other films that focus on cloning. While I still think it’s…

Lossless audio is a staple of music streaming in 2025, with almost every major streaming platform supporting at least CD-quality tracks. The one exception is YouTube Music, and the others — including Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, and Amazon Music — all offer lossless-quality streaming and downloads as part of their paid subscriptions. While cheap accessories go a long way in making high-res streaming worth it, there are a few software tweaks that can instantly improve your sound quality. In fact, there are settings and features that’ll improve the quality of your music streaming even without access to lossless quality. Turn…

For almost two decades, VLC Media Player has been one of the first apps I install on a new computer. It is the reliable, orange-coned workhorse that will play anything I throw at it, from corrupted AVI files to modern MKVs. However, I’ve always had one persistent complaint: VLC’s interface looks like it was designed in 2002—I can imagine you muttering, because, well, it largely was. Fair enough. While it is functionally perfect, its interface is a relic of cluttered menus, gray toolbars, and a utilitarian design that sticks out like a sore thumb on Windows 11. For years, I’ve…