Huawei presented the MatePad Paper during MWC 2022,, making it one of our most unusual tablets yet. It features an eink display and was unorthodox. Now that unusual device is finally in our office and we are about to start its review. Here are some initial impressions.
Xiaomi did the right thing by expanding the availability of the Redmi Note 11 Pro+ 5G. The phone was previously available in China and in India (under the name Xiaomi 11i HyperCharge 5G), now the phone is reaching for a wider audience.
People have started to calm down about the prospect of a new Witcher game finally being in development, although spirited theory-crafters are still firing on all cylinders. Is it possible to see the White Wolf returning, or are he busy crushing grapes in Witcher France? What about Ciri? Anybody with an interest at all in CD Projekt Red’s Blockbuster Series will be aware of how passionate fans were about Ciri getting her wolfy witcher boot.
In late March, fans from around the world came together in northern Illinois for the 2022 Golden Demon, the world’s biggest Warhammer painting competition. It was the first Golden Demon held in nearly three years, and the first to be held in the United States in more than a decade.
Realme unveiled the GT 2 in February, and in our in-depth review, we found it to be a well-balanced device with a nice display, innovative design, dependable battery life, and solid primary camera performance.
Tunic, an indie adventure game that melds influences from The Legend of Zelda and Dark Souls into an adorable and mysterious package, has taken over my brain for the past two weeks. Since I last beat any game, it’s been years since I jumped into New Game Plus without even stopping to replenish my water glass. I must admit that I would not have made it to the finish without sometimes using “No Fail”, the game’s default mode.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, together with partners, launched an online archive with war crimes of Russian invaders.
The OnePlus 10R’s full specs leaked last month, suggesting it won’t be an entirely new smartphone. The 10R (codenamed “pickle”) is expected to arrive sometime in Q2 2022, and while there’s no word on that from OnePlus yet, new information by reliable tipster Digital Chat Station reveals this Dimensity 8100-powered OnePlus smartphone will be actually called the OnePlus Ace.
The latest entry to our rolling list of the best films of 2022, Everything Everywhere All at Once is a delicious potpourri of genres, from frat comedy to generational drama. It begins with a relatively straightforward plot: Can a mother and daughter learn to appreciate their conflicting worldviews? But instead of taking the most direct path from point A to point B, Everything directors The Daniels scribble their way around the map, stretching the journey across a multiverse more human and relatable than the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
There has been an increase in board game arms races for the past ten years. The weight of products that consumers buy is now being measured in pounds, not in their complexity. But I feel a sea change is on the horizon. Publishers need to start elevating their back catalogues in new ways, as decades-old properties are still standing strong against the flurry. Castles of Burgundy Deluxe Edition seems like the first step in this direction.
This year’s edition r/place is over. Reddit’s huge communal internet mural project has now been completed. Started on April 1, 2022, it brought together internet strangers with a common goal — filling a massively blank canvas, pixel by pixel. The usual ensued: lots of fighting over real estate for making memes, logos, and fan art. But one Redditor decided to track the project by recreating it in Minecraft, in a feat of code and engineering. The result is stunning and disorienting.
Norco, from developer Geography of Robots, is born out of an experimental, multimedia project that started around 2015 — a series of oral history interviews, archival deep-dives, and video projects, all related to Louisiana’s geography following Hurricane Katrina. Among the videos and recordings was a little side-scrolling game about a robot breaking into an oil refinery in Norco, Louisiana.
At the 140th Manga Fan Convention, Commitia announced the release of a comic book dedicated to the Ghost of Kyiv - the legendary (in all senses, his identity has not been confirmed, there is reason to believe that this is a collective image, but we may be wrong) pilot, howling in the sky above Ukrainian capital.
Stepan was nominated for the most prestigious award among influencers and bloggers - World Influencers and Bloggers Awards 2022. This was told by his owner on Instagram. The event will take place in Cannes on May 18-19. It will be attended by about 100 bloggers.
