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Apple's new chip is the best reason to upgrade in years. The price tag, inflated by a memory shortage nobody asked for, is the best reason to wait.

A connected brick that still snaps into every set in the bin you already own, doing more than a novelty part usually manages.

670 roads, a map five times denser than the last one, and touge duels that finally give Japan's mountain passes their due.

The Paladin and Warlock arrive alongside a new region called Skovos, and together they make the strongest case yet for sticking with Sanctuary.

Ditto shapeshifts into a lost trainer, and turning empty wasteland into a thriving Pokémon habitat turns out to be the best game Game Freak has made in years.

Outland, flying mounts, and Karazhan are still the high point of World of Warcraft, even heading into another anniversary run.

Every raid is a countdown against killer robots and other players, and somehow that's exactly the right amount of stress.

A campaign that actually exists, maps built for chaos, and destruction that matters again. Battlefield is back.

Ramza's war for Ivalice comes back with a script worth reading twice and a soundtrack worth turning up.

Melinoë picks up the family business, and Supergiant somehow made the run-based formula even better the second time.

You can smash almost everything in sight, and Nintendo built an entire game worth destroying around that one idea.

Every track is connected now, and somehow that one change makes the whole series feel new again.

A 200-megapixel sensor and a 10x zoom lens that makes the moon look closer than it has any right to.

GitHub for machine learning models turned out to be exactly the thing the field was missing, and now almost nobody in AI skips it entirely.

The battery dies, you swap it in five seconds, and the headset never actually goes quiet.

Eleven drivers pointed at the ceiling and the walls, and somehow the whole room ends up sounding like the movie theater it's replacing.

A famously good mouse got a quieter click and a sharper sensor, and otherwise left well enough alone.

A hosted Postgres database wearing a developer platform's clothes, and somehow that combination is the whole appeal.

Same fanless Air formula, just stretched over a screen big enough to actually work on.

CD Projekt Red paired a new spy-thriller expansion with a total rework of Cyberpunk's skills and police systems, and together they fix almost everything that was wrong in 2020.