Owning a Philips CD-i often means dealing with controllers that feel more like afterthoughts than proper game pads. Released in 1991 as a multimedia player that later tried to become a game console, the machine never sold in large numbers, and its original input devices remain scarce and expensive decades later. Most units shipped with an infrared remote or the awkward pointing device known as the spoon, neither of which works well for anything requiring quick reactions or precise movement.
Locked doors in classic DOOM levels have always forced a specific route, usually involving a colored key card found after clearing a few rooms of demons. Tuin Doom Enhanced, the customized Windows build created by the modder known as tuin and based on Duct-Tape DOOM, removes that restriction. Rockets and exploding barrels now carve real openings through walls, doors, floors, and ceilings, and the resulting holes affect both how the level looks and how the player can move through it. A door that once blocked progress can be breached from either side, after which the player can walk or shoot straight through the gap while the damaged door continues to open and close with its holes still intact.
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Laptops that handle ordinary work without drama have climbed in price, yet the 13.6-inch MacBook Air with the M5 chip, 16GB of memory, and a 512GB SSD, priced at $1,149 today (was $1,299), still sits in a range where the cost matches what the machine actually does. This configuration keeps the same thin aluminum body as earlier Airs: 0.44 inches closed and roughly 2.7 pounds. The chassis uses recycled aluminum in large measure, and the finish resists everyday scuffs better than many lighter alternatives.
Apple Music introduced its updated brand identity on October 21, 2026, built around the idea that sound itself should generate the visuals. British producer Fred Again and the sound design studio NEST Acoustics created a short original composition that serves as both a sonic signature and the source material for the new look. That piece runs through a transducer, a device that turns an audio signal into physical vibration, placed inside a shallow tank of mineral oil.
BioWare’s long run as one of the most influential studios in role-playing games ends today as Electronic Arts announced its closure along with the cancellation of early work on the next Mass Effect title. Founded in 1995 in Edmonton by a group of doctors who left medicine for game development, the studio built a reputation on titles that let players shape stories through dialogue choices and party companions. Baldur’s Gate, Neverwinter Nights, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic established the approach before Mass Effect and Dragon Age turned it into a global franchise that players still revisit years later.