One of the biggest banes of trying to get work done on a laptop is the single screen setup. If you’re used to dealing with multiple monitors, being reduced to one can be incredibly limiting, having to switch apps constantly rather than immediately having all the information required on screen. The rise in work from home has seen solutions to this problem start cropping up, but the AR screened Spacetop has got to be one of the coolest ones yet.

The Spacetop is arguably a new kind of laptop. Instead of boasting a screen and keyboard in clamshell configuration, the Spacetop is a full sized keyboard and glasses set up that gives you as many screens as you can want. It feels a bit like science fiction, but Wired recently went hands on with the device and it looks to be one that’ll work very nicely with our current reality. 

The setup weighs less than 1.5 kgs and is by no means a gaming laptop, but the technology could be great for PC gamers further down the line. In its …

Dark Souls: Archthrones feels like a Souls series romhack, mashing up disparate parts of FromSoftware’s body of work in a custom campaign for Dark Souls 3. This is one for the fans, full of clever winks and references to other games in the series, but as one of those fans myself, I sure do not mind being pandered to.

From the jump, Archthrones’ opening level is a condensed homage to Demon’s Souls, featuring the same stinky potato boy Vanguard boss⁠—new school fans will recognize his moveset and animations from the Asylum Demon in Dark Souls and Erdtree Sentinels of Elden Ring. I thought I was a shoo-in for a first try victory against this clear “supposed to lose” boss, but at half health he whipped out a new funky moveset ripped straight out of Bloodborne’s Old Hunters DLC, and I was put in my place.

That kind of cheeky subversion of expectations gives me a lot of hope for Archthrones⁠—at its core this is an exercise in reference and imitation, bu…

Getting your Saturday Wordle off to the best possible start is easy—just take a look at today’s freshly prepared hint and those winning green letters will appear in no time. And if you’re further down the board and things aren’t looking too great, just click through to the answer to the August 17 (1155) puzzle and turn your game around in a flash.

I’m not going to win any records for speed today, but this turned out to be a very satisfying win. A few early crumbs led me in the right direction, then I had a little bit of struggle followed by a last-minute plot twist before my triumphant turnaround right at the end. I basically Wordle’d my way through a mystery novel today—just call me Poirot.

Today’s Wordle hint

Wordle today: A hint for Saturday, August 17

This is a name for a particular sort of bad weather. When this is happening the skies will go dark and cloudy, and there’ll be heavy wind and rain too. Hail might turn up if it’s…

Never underestimate the dread power of K-pop. A month and a bit after online social deception game Goose Goose Duck burst onto Steam’s most-played charts on the back of a stream from BTS member Kim Tae-hyung, the game has already smashed through the concurrent players’ record of its inspiration, Among Us. Goose Goose Duck reached a peak concurrent player count of 563,677 earlier today, beating Among Us’ all-time high by over a hundred thousand players.

The incredible surge in popularity has actually proven a bit of a problem for the game’s devs, who tweeted a few days ago that their servers had buckled under the pressure. “We expected a large increase in players but not like this,” tweeted the game’s official account, adding in a later reply to a fan that the developers were “in communication with providers to drastically increase [their] capacity”. Service was restored in a few hours, but it’s clear that the game’s sudden success has been a surprise to its creators, similar t…

Ubisoft has confirmed that it has joined other major companies who have paused advertising on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, following a Media Matters report which claims that the platform has been running ads for companies including Apple, IBM, NBCUniversal, and Comcast owner Xfinity next to pro-Nazi content. X denies that regular users will see such ads next to extremist content, claiming that Media Matters intentionally manipulated a feed to produce that result.

The list of companies who have halted activity on X is long and potentially extremely damaging for a platform struggling with a decline in advertising revenues: IBM, Apple, Disney, Warner Bros, Lionsgate, NBCUniversal, Xfinity, Sony, and others have all opted to stop running ads, at least temporarily.

Ubisoft is the first major game publisher we’re aware of that’s made the move. A rep confirmed the decision, first reported by Axios, in a statement provided to PC Gamer, although no furt…

Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is five years old, and that means it’s free to play over the weekend. The big birthday celebration also sees the return of A Quiet Drink, a special event level in which players brawl with a horde of Ratmen and Chaos Warriors while trying to find someplace to get a drink.

We liked Vermintide 2 an awful lot when it came out in 2018, declaring in our 80% review that its bad matchmaking and RPG progression were more than made up for by “feverishly fun” combat and level design. Since then it’s gotten a steady stream of updates, both free and paid, including the great roguelike-inspired Chaos Wastes mode. Vermintide 2 was a major hit for Fatshark, and remains popular to this day: In fact, its peak concurrent player count over the past couple of months hasn’t been far off that of Fatshark’s most recent release, the troubled Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, which just launched in November 2022. Work on that game continues, but Fatshark apparently also has plans to c…