98%. That’s where the progress bar sat for eleven straight minutes while I stared at my phone like it owed me money. I’d already uninstalled and reinstalled the game once, force closed it about six times, and restarted my phone twice, and it was still stuck at that exact same percentage every single time. At … Read more
I still remember the exact moment my phone shut itself off mid-match in PUBG Mobile. Final circle, three enemies left, and my screen just went black with a little thermometer warning icon. By the time it rebooted, I was already dead and my squad was typing angry messages in chat. That was the day I … Read more
I started playing Genshin Impact on my phone during a bus ride, purely to pass the time. Three hours later I missed my stop. That’s when I knew this game had its hooks in me. For the first few months, mobile was all I had. Then I got access to a decent PC and tried … Read more
I still remember the exact moment I almost dropped my phone. I was three rounds into a ranked match, phone propped up on a stand, thumbs going crazy, and suddenly the back of my device felt like it had just come out of a microwave. Not warm. Hot. Like, “why does this feel like a … Read more
I almost didn’t write this post because I was tired of being wrong about cloud gaming. Back in 2023 I told a friend that cloud gaming was “basically a gimmick until fiber internet is everywhere.” Then my gaming PC’s GPU fan started grinding like a coffee bean roaster last winter, I didn’t have $600 lying … Read more
I was stuck at my sister’s place last winter with nothing but my phone and a painfully slow evening ahead of me. She’d been watching me play BeamNG.drive on my PC the week before mostly me driving cars into walls at increasing speeds, which is basically the whole appeal and she asked, half-joking, “can’t you … Read more
I learned this lesson the hard way on a 14-hour flight with no in-flight Wi-Fi and a phone full of games that all needed an internet connection to even open. Every single one just sat there on a loading screen, waiting for a server that wasn’t coming. I spent most of that flight watching the … Read more
A few months back my cousin visited and saw an old Vice City poster I still have framed in my room. Yeah, I’m that guy. He asked if he could play it on his phone right there on the couch. I said “sure, give me two minutes” expecting to dig through emulator settings like I … Read more
Last summer my nephew came over, saw me playing GTA 5 on my PC, and asked if he could “download it on his phone real quick.” I laughed, then realized I didn’t actually have a great answer for him. So I spent the next few weeks testing basically every legitimate method people talk about online … Read more