That’ll hurt your wallet… Kirby Air Riders has more amiibo that Mario Kart World — that was already true when they were revealed during the September Nintendo Direct, but a second one (that just aired) has unveiled three more. Meta Knight and Shadow Star, King Dedede and Tank Star, and Chef Kawasaki and Hop Star…
If you’re the type to want to show off your components to the world, one of the best fish tank PC cases is a great way to do it. Due to the sudden popularity of this sort of case design, I’m going to presume this includes most PC gamers—we’re vain creatures, after all. I’ve tested…
It’s been a strange few years for Remedy Entertainment. On the one hand, it’s more independent and successful than ever before. With less reliance on publisher investment, it’s been able to develop and expand its studio-owned properties into a connected universe, and move towards self-publishing. And it’s produced some of its most critically acclaimed games…
Tarnished Edition pushed to 2026. Bandai Namco and FromSoftware are delaying the planned launch of Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition on Switch 2 until next year. Originally scheduled to arrive on Nintendo’s console before the end of 2025, a post from the game’s official X account apologises to players and says the delay into 2026 is…
Start your engines. The second Kirby Air Riders Direct wrapped up with the announcement of a ‘Global Test Ride’ demo, speeding onto Switch 2 throughout November. These demos will be limited-time events for all those with a Switch 2 and an active NSO membership, giving you the chance to go hands-on with the title that…
Critical Role Campaign 4 is off to a terrific start—even if it is a borderline magic trick to see DM Brennan Lee Mulligan handle thirteen players at once for its first four episodes (they’re not all at the table at once, mind, but it’s still a terrific feat). I’ve been equally impressed by the new…
Even after a couple of hours with Full Metal Schoolgirl, I’m not entirely sure what it wants to be: a shooter, a roguelite, a campy yet lewd robo-corpo hack-and-slash? It’s a little bit of everything, and doesn’t particularly excel in any aspect. Yet I’m weirdly endeared to its bizarre late 2000s jankiness. It reeks of…
The utterly baffling status of Intel’s Arc graphics technology just got a bit clearer. Oh, and a whole lot more confusing, too. In a nutshell, the Xe3 iGPU in the new Panther Lake chip definitely isn’t based on Celestial, Intel’s supposed next-gen graphics architecture. Instead it’s a tweak of Xe2, as seen in the Intel…
The new Painkiller is out now on Steam, and it brings me no pleasure to say that it’s really not very good—although it does at least maintain the 20-year streak of Painkiller follow-ups being pale, flaccid imitations of the original. Painkiller—intended as a reboot, I guess, hence coming to the table with the same unmodified…
Generative AI is no longer a novelty; it’s part of everyday writing. Yet teachers, editors, and even students themselves still need a reliable way to tell whether a piece of text was produced by a human mind or by a language model. In this guide, I’ll walk you through practical, up-to-date techniques I use when…