Remember we mentioned earlier this week how Intel’s upcoming Panther Lake mobile CPU is shaping up to be a killer chip for gaming handhelds? Well, now we have some purported details of the first Panther Lake model Intel will release. The good news? It’s coming later this year. The bad news? It reportedly won’t get…
Intel gave the world its first look at the upcoming 14A and 14A-E node technology at the Intel Foundry Direct 2025 event in San Jose, California earlier this week, and one term in particular stood out: Turbo Cells. Intel says that Turbo Cell technology can improve the maximum frequency and performance per watt of chips…
While Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s publisher has poked fun at the Barbenheimer-esque situation between its own stellar JRPG and the Oblivion Remaster, it doesn’t seem like it’s harmed Sandfall’s hit at all. Clair Obscur landed very well, gathering over 1 million sales in under a week and an all-timer critical reception. In a recent interview…
“The product is built to last”. Physical publisher Limited Run Games has come under fire for allegedly using recycled chips in one of its latest releases, Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution on the GBA (thanks, VGC). The game—which was originally supposed to launch last year but was delayed—is set between the original Shantae and Shantae: Risky’s…
New “disc drive channel switcher” now available. If you own a Sega Saturn, then chances are you’re aware of Optical Drive Emulators like Rhea, Phoebe and Fenrir. These devices allow you to run games from solid-state media and are massively convenient when it comes to enjoying the console’s entire library. The issue is that, with…
The Shire comes to Switch this July. In case you somehow missed it, we’re getting another Lord of the Rings game, but this one is probably like no other entry you’ve seen in the series before. This new title, known as Tales of the Shire, has been described as a “cosy” Tolkien-inspired lifestyle-like game and…
Which do you prefer? The latest Switch update brought with it a couple of pretty substantial new features in the form of Virtual Game Cards and GameShare as Nintendo looks to prepare for the upcoming Switch 2. In addition to this (and, apparently, a few nasty error messages), the Switch eShop has also received a…
And there’s physical goodness, too! We have been through a range of emotions with this one. Pac-Man, arguably the most useful yellow ball since the sun, and a true video gaming legend at 45 years in the biz, has made the jump to full-on action fare. Bandai Namco’s Shadow Labyrinth – which launches on July…
The “overriding factor” is money. There have been ongoing requests over the years for the revival of Rare’s famous bear and bird duo Banjo-Kazooie, but will fans ever see this series return? The game’s composer Grant Kirkhope already spoke about this earlier in the year – mentioning how he had “zero hope” for a new…
I’ve never been a fan of open world game design. The reason is simple- I get lost very easily. This is probably why I tend to prefer retro games over modern ones in the first place, open world design being better facilitated by more advanced hardware. That I’m opening with this does not bode…