A record-breaking year for Steam: nearly 19,000 games released in 2024, but most went unnoticed
Can we have too many games?
Year in review articles
TechSpot Rewind: The 25 most-read tech stories of 2024
Year in Review
Recap: The tech world is in constant flux, but some stories capture our collective imagination more than others. As we look back at 2024, this TechSpot Rewind countdown is more than just a list – it's a snapshot of the ideas, technologies, and controversies that shaped the year.
YouTube takes over the living room: Viewers stream over a billion hours a day
Invasion of the living room
Global Internet traffic grew 17.2% in 2024 in another banner year for Google, SpaceX, and Facebook
Internet usage has never been higher
Hogwarts Legacy is so far beating Call of Duty for best-selling game of 2023
But... there's still a month to go and CoD took the #2 spot with less than a month's worth of sales
Internet traffic surges by 25% for second year in a row, average US download speed is 201 Mbps
Plenty of interesting stats in Cloudflare's Year in Review report
Apple highlights the best apps and games in the App Store for 2023
The best of the best
Google's top-trending searches of 2023 include Hogwarts Legacy, ChatGPT, and a question about Romans
Jeremy Renner and the Titanic were also popular
TechSpot's top security stories of 2022: Vulnerabilities wait in the wings
Staying safe online is no easy task
TechSpot's top big tech stories of 2022: Why is Amazon building CPUs?
Consumers are becoming more aware of personal privacy
TechSpot's top mobile stories of 2022: Closing the book on 3G
Mobile innovation is still alive
TechSpot's top car tech stories of 2022: Autonomous driving aids get a failing grade
Fossil fuels are on the way out
TechSpot's top tech culture stories of 2022: Not sure if pregnant, or smuggling hundreds of CPUs
Truth is stranger than fiction
TechSpot's top hardware stories of 2022: Pushing Moore's law to the limit
Hardware, our lifeblood
TechSpot's top science stories of 2022: Space, the final frontier
Learning our place in the universe
TechSpot's top gaming stories of 2022: You can still play Doom on just about anything
Ray tracing hit its stride in 2022, but should be used sparingly
Steam's new year-in-review feature shows your most-played titles of 2022
See how your gaming habits compare to others
Apple App Store Awards honor standout apps and games of 2022
What just happened? Apple has announced the winners of its annual App Store Awards, highlighting more than a dozen apps and games that it says inspired users to expand their imaginations and engage with friends, family and loved ones more deeply this year.
Last year saw a record number of gaming tweets; these were the most talked-about titles
A few surprises on the list
Say goodbye to 2020 with this mockumentary from Black Mirror creators
Watch it, and then let us never speak of this year again
Google's annual Year in Search spotlights 2020's top queries
What the world searched for in 2020
For the first time in a decade, there will be no YouTube Rewind this year
Let's just forget 2020 happened