You know how it goes: sometimes you aim for Spyro and land on Boss Baby. At least, that’s how I assume Riot arrived at the initial design for Smolder, League of Legends’ newest champion. Announced last week, Smolder is an “audacious dragon cutie” whose design was intended to evoke a kind of mascot-ish, Pixar/Dreamworks-style cuteness…
It’s been almost 20 years since the Monster Hunter action RPG series first appeared on the PlayStation 2 and to celebrate its ongoing success, Capcom and MSI have collaborated to produce a range of Monster Hunter-styled products, including a gaming laptop, PC case, monitor, and gamepad. Some of it looks really neat but others come…
The falling-block game originally launched in arcades back in 1992. Hamster has revealed that this week’s Arcade Archives will be Namco’s falling-block puzzle game Cosmo Gang The Puzzle. It will be coming to both the Nintendo Switch eShop and PS4 on January 11th (as reported by Famitsu). Cosmo Gang The Puzzle is the third entry…
We’re pretty sure that’s not Kevin Afghani… The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is in full swing over in Las Vegas, Nevada, and it’s the perfect opportunity for major companies to showcase some of the products and concepts that could be making their way into your homes in the coming years (though there’s already a bit…
“Maybe it’s time for a SAROO mini-Saturn system!”. Sega’s made some pretty positive steps in the world of micro consoles, releasing two versions of its Mega Drive / Genesis system in miniaturized form. It recently asked fans which classic Sega console they wanted to see get the same treatment next, and the 32-bit Saturn came…
My Arcade reveals its 2024 line-up at CES. Retro hardware manufacturer My Arcade has been showing off its 2024 range of products at the Consumer Electronics Show, and one particular device has caught our attention. The Atari Gamestation Portable is a handheld system which boasts a 7-inch high-resolution screen, rechargeable battery and loads of pre-installed…
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, which means MSI must really like Nvidia’s Founders Edition design. It’s taken the core concept of Nvidia’s RTX 30- and 40-series FE cards, the push/pull fan concept, and reimagined it with its own RTX 4080 Super 16G Expert. MSI tells me it liked how Nvidia’s Founders…
Quan-Chi was the latest DLC fighter. Mortal Kombat 1 continues its fight in the new year with the announcement Khameleon will be coming to the game as a DLC fighter next week. Yes, a date is now officially locked in, with the game’s social media account confirming she’ll be arriving on 16th January 2024. Khameleon…
Someone’s always trying to change how we build gaming PCs—bold new concepts are commonplace at CES—but very few ideas actually succeed in changing anything at all. Yet it really looks like one trend could stick around this year, and that’s motherboards with all the connectors and cables hidden around the back. Now, feel free to…
Amusement machines & toys under one banner. Sega Sammy, the company behind Sega, has announced an organisational restructure which will see the formation of a new corporation known as “Sega Fave”. Read the full article on nintendolife.com