Category: Consumer Discretionary

Good luck figuring out what time it is on this cool Asteroids watch

Here’s one for the fashion-conscious retro gamers out there. Atari has teamed up with watchmaker Nubeo to release an Asteroids-themed watch to celebrate the game’s 45th anniversary (even though it came out in 1979). The watch has a multi-layered disc system that’s designed to reflect the gameplay of Asteroids. Atari…

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Engadget review recap: All eyes on NVIDIA and Samsung

I don’t know if you can believe it, but we’re fast approaching the end of January. And I want to kick off the first review recap of 2025 by acknowledging how busy it’s already been. CES 2025, which to me seemed to go on for a year, now feels like…

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Our favorite portable SSD falls to $70, plus the rest of the week’s best tech deals

It’s Friday, which means it’s once again time for us to venture into the discount mines and dig out a few tech deals worth your attention. This week’s roundup includes the lowest price in a year for Crucial’s X9 Pro, which we consider the best portable SSD for those who…

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The best Super Bowl 2025 TV deals we could find

Super Bowl LIX is just a couple of weeks away, which means it’s a decent time to be in the market for a new TV. If you’re looking to make a living room upgrade, we’ve picked through Amazon, Best Buy and other retailers to find a few Super Bowl 2025…

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What if the Nintendo Switch 2 is too big?

The Switch 2 is a big boy. That was my main takeaway from Nintendo’s long-awaited reveal of its next portable. How could you have watched that trailer and left with any other impression? It’s not like Nintendo showed much else. Sure, there was the slide about backward compatibility, but the…

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The Morning After: Everything Samsung announced this week (and future devices teased)

Welcome to a new newsletter, with a bit of a new direction. While our mid-week edition tackles news specifics, this end-of-the-week missive combines the biggest news with more context, more things to read and watch, recommendations, easter eggs, inside baseball and stuff that interests our readers, alongside the breaking news,…

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