Every modern flat panel display consists of physical "pixels" or "picture elements" that make up the image as a whole. Pixels are already tiny, but each one is a complex machine in its own right, with numerous independent parts.

Anime went from a niche medium that only existed in the West thanks to a geeky subculture, to a mainstream entertainment form available all over the world, but where would someone coming into the hobby even begin today?

When it comes to TVs, people can have an intense level of brand loyalty. I get it! It's good to stick with a name that you know and trust, but being a little too snobby about the TV brands you're willing to buy can come back to bite you in the end.

I had the opportunity to pick up a nice little 17-inch Samsung SyncMaster CRT monitor a while ago, which I bought specifically for retro gaming—which worked out pretty well. Then, I got the idea to relive my college years and actually do some work on the little tube.

Some games are just misunderstood when they first hit the public eye. There might be weird stories surrounding their development, or early reviewers may just not "get" what makes a game special. It happens!

You're probably not buying a new monitor often. It's one of those components that will follow you from one computer to the next, but at some point you'll want to upgrade and benefit from the great new screen technology that's on offer.

CRTs have been out of the mainstream for over two decades, but that doesn't mean there aren't modern games that get something a little special from being displayed by a high-voltage electron gun instead of twisty liquid crystals.

4K monitors are finally becoming more affordable, and so you may be thinking it's time to upgrade that 1440p or even 1080p display to something with way more pixels, and a much sharper image as a result.

Macs used to have no end of gaming options, until about the turn of the century. Since then, gaming on a Mac has been a bit of a joke at Apple's expense. However, in recent years, things have taken a turn for the better, with Apple making many moves that should result in more games coming to its platform,

Weekly show releases feel like a partial return to the bad old days of broadcast television, where you had to conform to someone else's schedule, or at least figure out how to program your VCR.

4K monitors are some of the highest resolution monitors you can buy for a desktop setup, and that means you're usually going to pay quite a premium! So is it worth it?

It's become incredibly common for tech publications (and people on Reddit) to give out blanket advice to skip the base iPad and buy an iPad Air instead. I'm here to tell you that for most people, most of the time, the base iPad is more than you actually need.

NVIDIA has released its 50-series cards, and AMD has released its 9000-series cards, and everyone is very excited to buy into this new generation of graphics hardware, but what do their specs actually mean?

It turns out that maybe we were a little too hasty to throw out our CRT computer monitors all those years ago. We didn't quite appreciate what we had, but I've been looking for my own CRT slice of heaven and have finally found a decent screen for my retro games.

Unless you still own a working Xbox 360, the only real way to play games from this era is via emulation, with some very mixed results. However, what if you didn't have to use emulation to play these games? What if you could easily create native ports of these games for virtually any platform? That dream is quickly becoming a reality.

If you've ever engaged with the "cyberpunk" genre in books, movies, and video games, you might have run into the fictional concept of a "cyberdeck", but there's a subculture of geeks who just can't live in a world where cyberdecks aren't real, so they're making them a reality.