The Nintendo fan’s ultimate keyboard. 8BitDo is famous for its excellent controllers aimed at both retro and modern-day systems, but the company has taken something of a departure with its latest effort, the Retro Mechanical Keyboard. As you can probably see from the design, it takes inspiration from the Nintendo Entertainment System, the console that…
Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard has been a major source of corporate drama these past few months. Back in April, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) moved to block the acquisition, stating “Microsoft’s proposed solution failed to effectively address the concerns in the cloud gaming sector”. This block included a massive, 200-plus page findings…
We’ve been here before. But Valve’s latest attempts to squish any imminent expectations of a faster Steam Deck are that little bit more specific. There won’t be one until at least the end of 2025. And quite possibly longer. Speaking to The Verge, Valve rep and Steam Deck designer Pierre-Loup Griffais explained that Valve wanted…
Valve is keeping busy. The company has dramatically increased the number of changes made to SteamVR over the past two months including updates that could be aimed at a new headset. Whether this is Valve placing the groundwork for its next-gen VR headset—it’s Valve, we really don’t know what that company is up to—it does…
Includes 90Hz refresh rate. Over at the Tokyo Game Show this week, Japanese hardware firm Tassei Denki has been showing off some hardware prototypes that could potentially give us a glimpse into the near future. One of these is of particular interest to us and appears to be a new concept for the Nintendo 3DS….
Currently being demoed at TGS 2023. Aya Neo‘s latest handheld gaming PC, the Aya Neo Slide, will be available to pre-order on IndieGoGo later today, it has been confirmed. Packing an AMD Ryzen 7840U chipset and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, the Slide joins the likes of the Aya Neo Air 1S and Aya Neo Kun…
We all know traffic management is half the game in Cities: Skylines. As for Cities: Skylines 2, it seems the devs at Colossal Order have been paying close attention to the road tools we use most to ease the burdens that busy junctions place on our cities. As such, they look to have added a…
We wants it. While it hasn’t been officially announced for Switch (or, indeed, any specific platform at the moment), we’re getting ourselves all excited about Tales of the Shire, an upcoming “heart-warming” Lord of the Rings game from Wētā Workshop and Private Division, due out on “consoles” in 2024. Now, we don’t actually know all…
Shown off at TGS 2023. Japanese hardware firm Tassei Denki has been showing off some exciting retro-themed hardware at this year’s Tokyo Game Show, including what appears to be a Sega Saturn Mini that uses FPGA technology rather than traditional software-based emulation. The unit at the show – which is, of course, entirely unofficial and…
Have you ever looked at a product that claims to be carbon neutral or environmentally friendly and wondered what the heck that means, specifically? It can be a dodgy marketing practice that induces consumers into buying something that may not be anything of the sort. It’s called greenwashing. The EU parliament has reached a provisional…