It's been a varied year for handhelds, with all three of the top models being from different manufacturers.

Windows, sadly, still offers some things that Linux cannot.

Let's give it up for affordable all-in-one liquid coolers.

More Dawnguard than Dragonborn, but still.

No, really: Look at you, hacker.

Roberts Space Industries' sim keeps raking in the cash.

Where everybody knows your name.

Two 4K and one 1440p monitor take the nominations this year, with one being a potential dark horse.

Ho ho ho... No, no, no!

With a whole new generation of mobile GPUs, and some sleek new designs, this has been a great year for gaming laptops. But who's the winner?

This could be a rough holiday for online gaming services.

…and three not-so-shining examples. Oh dear.

Dinga Bakaba dropped in on X to let everyone know that despite the extended silence, Arkane is hard at work and everything is fine.

Meanwhile, Razer Lake, Hammer Lake and Titan Lake take the fight to AMD.

The Golden Rule.

After all these years, Jennifer Hale and Mark Meer are eager for more.

Fancy a game of Terrible Problem?

It turns out that a small community garden offers more compelling adventures than a magical island or a capitalist nightmare.

Will 2026 be the same?

If RAM prices are making a PC upgrade impossible, maybe 2026 is the year for a new gaming monitor?

Maybe you can have too much of a good thing.

How does the Doom Slayer open his presents? He rips and tears until it is done.

You may even see a Zetan.

Yep, there was a new live-action Witcher movie starring Dolph Lundgren on Netflix in October.