Points taken. We’re about six weeks away from Nintendo’s Switch 2 Direct in April, and the company presumably preparing furiously for the full reveal of its upcoming hardware. Until then, we’re left to analyse statements around its financial results and other little announcements for clues about the Switch successor beyond its form factor. The firm’s…
Tiger Electronics device has “unique monochrome sprites” that have never been extracted. At the dawn of Pokémon’s global success, Tiger Electronics created a licensed Pokédex which allowed fans to learn more about the first Generation of Pocket Monsters. If you grew up in the late ’90s, then you’ll almost certainly have seen one of these…
Last week, we reported of a Wall Street Journal post claiming that TSMC was in talks to take control of Intel’s fabs in some kind of joint venture. Now it’s being reported that is not the case, while yet more reports say that TSMC may indeed take Intel’s fabs in a deal that sees Broadcom…
Bethesda is currently offering up the chance for one player to be created into an NPC for The Elder Scrolls 6. The exclusive experience is being offered as part of an online auction in aid of the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and some big bids have already been made. “For the last several years, we have been…
We recently had the opportunity to chat with the influential artist. Katsuya Terada is a Japanese illustrator and artist whose work has spanned many mediums over his impressive four-decade-long career. Initially starting out in the world of advertising, following his graduation from Tokyo’s Asagaya College of Art and Design, he has since gone on to…
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is a game about war in medieval Bohemia, and all the grisly unpleasantness that entails—like, for instance, being branded a criminal forevermore due to simple mistakes, or worse, just straight-up getting your head lopped off. Its playerbase, however, seems altogether more wholesome: As proved by a recent gifting frenzy that took…
In one of the more unusual Steam updates I’ve read lately, Dead by Daylight‘s developer Behaviour Interactive has announced it is suspending plans for numerous hotly anticipated features in favour of what it terms a ‘substantial quality of life initiative’ that will run throughout 2025. As the update explains, Behaviour’s focus this year was supposed…
See ya, savings! Nintendo has announced that its Nintendo Switch Game Vouchers saving service will not extend to Switch 2 exclusives (thanks, VGC). The vouchers initially cropped up in 2019 as a way to make a small saving on first-party Switch titles. Nintendo Switch Online subscribers can buy a voucher for £84/$100 and use it…
Via Robert Dale Smith’s ‘Virtual VMU’. The Sega Dreamcast may be over a quarter of a century old now, but it’s still full of surprises thanks to the passionate modding community which has grown up around it. This same community has already engineered a way to get Sega’s 128-bit console back online, and now developer…
Gaming keyboards have changed rapidly in recent years. At one time merely a slab of slick keys and LEDs, thanks to new types of key switches, it’s now possible to offer features tailored to the modern gamer, such as rapid trigger and adjustable actuation. Most keyboard manufacturers haven’t missed the memo either—there’s a vast swathe…