In a weird way, what helped me feel a little better was my ER doctor bluntly saying, "I don't know why they told you to come here." There was a pretty good reason, it turns out, but we're getting ahead of ourselves.

Let me explain...

I legitimately despise April Fools pranks. Instead, I like to celebrate April the first with silly and outlandish things. As I've done multiple times.

For 2026, I've written this article. This isn't a farce or work. There's no kayfabe. It's

In recent years, the idea of running full PC games on an Android phone sat in this weird purgatory between wishful thinking and compromise. You had streaming services that lived or died by your Wi-Fi signal, stripped-down mobile ports that might feel like a hollow apology, or niche emulation hacks

Over the past few months, I've spotted something a little odd and unexpected happening to Sony's old PlayStation Portable. There's been no corporate push, no announcement of the truly portable Sony handheld we used to hope for (_sorry, Portal_). Instead, through something far less

"What that character is feeling inside that environment is what I want the players to feel as they play the game...I want the players to not only have a fun and exhilarating experience, but also think about many different things." - Hideo Kojima

Linux gaming is awesome. I've made a career championing free and open source as a base for PC gaming. And now? Well, it just continues to grow!

And one of the best ways you can become a Linux gamer is Bazzite. I've talked about Bazzite many

Instagram, Tiktok, and the slot machine of slop.

Now shipping with Spruce and soon muOS, Songo#5 is moving from a standalone music player to a default part of handheld firmware ecosystems, with an Android port on the horizon

Today of all days Ghost (the open source, self-hosted publishing platform we use here at _The Bryant Review_) notified me that there's a new feature for the platform. This is, apparently, a _brand new feature_ and, to me... given that it's freakin' April 1st... my

In a space becoming increasingly crowded with emulation frontends (each promising the “perfect” way to organize and launch your games) it takes something genuinely different to stand out. _RetroHrai!_ , to me, is one of those rare projects that’s managed to do exactly that, earning a growing

And now they're making a documentary about it!

When I opened the box for the Retroid Pocket 6, the color was the first thing that caught my attention. Retroid had sent over the ‘Light Purple’ variant for me to review, and it _immediately_ reminded me of the shade used on the Lilac Purple versions of the

March 2026 was our best month ever. Hands down. Not only did we post some of the biggest articles, we smashed our previous monthly analytics record by nearly 30% (which we'll cover later on).

Now, it's April and we have some awesome stuff planned! Let'

A spiritual successor to System Shock 2 and helmed by Ken Levine of Irrational Games, BioShock tells a compelling narrative. It's the kind of story that only a video game could tell, an irony only a ludonarrative could illustrate, and a warning we should've heeded a long time ago.

We've been hearing rumors for a while now: a Framerate Estimator is coming to Steam. This week, we've even had a leak or two.

But it's been going on for a while. On March 9th, 2026 Valve offhandedly mentioned a new feature in the

A few months ago, I published my review of ZorinOS 18. Today, we're celebrating ZorinOS 18.1, an incremental release that adds new polish and features to one of the most exciting desktop Linux distros I've seen in years!

So let's take a look

Over the past couple weeks, there’s been a _lot_ of discussion around Lutris and its developer, Mathieu Comandon, following comments about using AI tools (specifically Claude) as part of the project’s development.

It’s the kind of topic that can very quickly spiral into wider

This week, we celebrated the PSP and the 16-bit fantasy console Sharpie. And I published two large opinion pieces. This week was fun and I hope you enjoy!

And make sure you check out the end of this article where we drop some sneak previews of upcoming posts and break

47 days of training and all I got was this stupid debt peonage.

There’s a certain way people talk about retro gaming that I’ve never fully clicked with. It almost always comes back to consoles and emulators: what system you’re recreating, how accurate it is, how close it feels to the original hardware. And of course, that&

It's 2026 and friction parity now approaches 1.

All things considered, what does that mean? Well, I came up with this term a little while ago after talking about this very concept for years. Friction parity is the idea that no OS is perfect, just familiar.

Mac fans,

We had another massive week here at The Review and major new features are on the horizon. I hope you read the whole article!

And make sure you check out the end of this article where we drop some sneak previews of upcoming posts and break down this week'

There’s an assumption about the internet. That once something is online, it stays there forever. In reality, the opposite is often true. Forums disappear. File hosts shut down. Guides vanish. And with them, _decades_ of hard-earned knowledge quietly slip away. That’s the problem Derf has been

Modding on the go!

Are you're a fan of a YouTuber, a TikToker, or a prolific reddit contributor? Do you follow someone on Bluesky, or do you subscribe to your favorite podcast's Patreon page? If so, there's something you need to know: they could be even better.

This

It takes a certain kind of person who, after spending enough time with something like PICO-8, doesn’t just want to make games and enjoy it: they start wondering how it works, and eventually whether they could build something like it themselves. It’s about understanding the invisible

Yearning for youth and despising his ailing body, the Emperor accepts a deal with a hive mind.

Nine articles over the last seven days. This might be a new record for The Review. I'm exceptionally proud of each and every one of them, too! If you haven't been to the site in a few days (or if you'd just like to

Mostly because I took my nephew.