BTF, or Back-To-the-Future, graphics cards are special in that they contain an additional connector to the side of the PCIe slot, through which the graphics card is powered. Thus removing the need for any pesky cables. It’s a neat solution for clean-cut PC builds, though as I haven’t yet built with it, I hadn’t realised…
Red Dead Redemption 2 could be coming to Nintendo Switch 2, as reported by Gamereactor. According to “sources close to Rockstar” the open-world wild west adventure could come to the new console as early as this year too, adding to the selection of third-party games already announced at the initial Switch 2 direct like Elden…
Good vibrations. If you have ever lost one of your Switch 1 Joy-Con, there’s every chance that you will have seen the ‘Search for Controllers’ feature in action. This menu in the ‘Controller’ settings lets you select any paired controller that you know is in the room somewhere, and make it vibrate, so you can…
Tech CEOs proclaiming unfeasibly large numbers at the launch of a new product is par for the course in the industry, and it’s common practice to take them with a pinch of salt until someone’s tested them. Even so, Nvidia’s Jen-Hsun Huang was perhaps hoping for a bigger reaction at Computex when he claimed that…
Something a little screwy has been going on with the new Nvidia RTX 5060 graphics card launch. It was revealed a few weeks ago that Nvidia wasn’t going to be helping sample cards for review testing of its budget-oriented RTX Blackwell GPU. Now, that’s not completely unprecedented for a card low down the stack which…
Asus says this card is a celebration of a few things. For starters, Doom: The Dark Ages coming out—that’s a given—but also it’s been 30 years since the company started making GPUs. Ain’t that neat, the company is nearly as old as Doomguy. “It is also the 30th anniversary for our graphics card division this…
Panther Lake, Intel’s next generation of mobile chip, was shown off in person during presentations at Computex 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan. The headline information is a continuation of Lunar Lake’s power efficiency, an upgraded iGPU, and a launch in early 2026. This is all as reported by Wccftech, who managed to sit in on a…
Asus has been hitting the right notes with its gaming keyboards as of late, and it looks to be going in a good direction with its latest announcement, the ROG Falcata. This is a split ergonomic gaming keyboard, and I’ve had a quick bash on its Hall effect keys over at Computex 2025. First off,…
When I was growing up I really loved playing the 1981 Arcade game of Frogger by Konami. It had loads of charm, great gameplay for kids and it really made you feel for the safety of those little green frogs as they hopped their way across a busy road, then across a river of logs…
‘Bemani’ composer Yoshitaka Nishimura will serve as the new subsidiary’s president. Last week, it was announced that Konami will be establishing a new subsidiary within the company later this year, Konami Arcade Games, to focus purely on the arcade market. Currently, the creation and operation of arcade games within Konami falls under Konami Amusements (a…