Four decades of 1-1. Five years ago, Nintendo made an appropriately big thing of Super Mario Bros.‘ 35th anniversary, with a bespoke Direct broadcast featuring a bunch of new games and, naturally, merch celebrating the Famicom release of video gaming’s most famous platformer on 13th September 1985. Half a decade on and the 40th anniversary…
12-game collection arrives this year, in time for Rare’s 40th. Evercade maker Blaze has announced that it will be bringing Rare games to its family of retro-focused systems this year, just in time to mark the British veteran’s 40th birthday. Rare Collection 1 will include 12 titles spanning the company’s early history, including several famous…
The slick fishtank system before you is the supremely effective sweet spot for a modern, high-end gaming PC. This Corsair Vengeance gaming PC isn’t packing in the absolute best hardware available right now, but it is rocking a CPU/GPU pairing that absolutely delivers on a bang-for-buck level. After all, not everyone can afford to spend…
Technologically speaking, America has been quite afraid of Chinese development for, well, ever, but there’s been a significant resurgence of this thought since the boom of AI in the last few years. After much deliberation and argumentation, Nvidia was finally cleared from US scrutiny to import its H20 chips into China recently, and this came…
I’m a big fan of little, cheap processors for gaming, so when Intel stealthily announced the specifications for its six-core, 12-thread Core Ultra 120/120F processors, I was really looking forward to seeing them on retailers’ shelves. Unfortunately, the first prices for them have just dropped, and Raptor Lake Regurgitated is anything but cheap, weighing in…
Shinobi! Shantae! Kirby! We are barreling straight into another month of Switch 2, and while August might not be quite as packed as the last, there’s still plenty of new game goodness coming our way. Here to run us through all of the big hitters coming to Switch 1 and 2 in the next four…
Saiyuuki World II journeys to the West for the very first time in its original form. The Famicom title Saiyuuki World II and the NES title Whomp’Em will be reissued on Nintendo Switch as a special 2-in-1 package later this week on August 7th, City Connection has revealed. In case you’re unaware, Saiyuuki World II…
What do you do when you’re waiting for a game to release? Go back and visit some old classics? Distract yourself by picking up a new hobby? Or do you draw the world’s teeniest-tiniest Hornet that can only be observed under a microscope? Because that’s what this one Silksong hopeful did. In ritualistic preparation for…
When it comes to gaming, Intel hasn’t held any kind of crown since it launched its range of Arrow Lake processors. With its 3D V-Cache desktop CPUs and all-conquering APUs, AMD has consistently been the brand to go for. However, a recent comparison of the new Ryzen Z2 Extreme against the Core Ultra 7 258V…
Tell them what you want, what you really, really want (again). Nintendo has already been doing a little surveying and gathering of feedback, as we reported a few weeks back, with regards to physical and digital games, including how game-key cards are going down. Spoiler alert: they aren’t really going down very well at all….