Exactly a week after Intel announced its newly refreshed Arrow Lake Plus CPUs for desktop PCs, here comes a pair of mobile chips for laptops. We give you the new Intel Core Ultra 200HX Plus family with 8% more gaming performance. Unlike the new desktop Arrow Lake Plus chips, that gaming uplift is delivered without…
Don’t duck this one. AYANEO is known for its premium handhelds, and these almost always come with price tags which reflect their high-end status. The Pocket Air Mini, however, bucks this trend with a sub-$100 price point, putting the cat amongst the pigeons in the crowded budget emulation space. While the device was released last…
Category: Games March 18, 2026 Double Fine’s Pottery Party Brawler Kiln Arrives April 23 (Plus a Direct Look at the First Public Play Sessions) Will Fulton, Xbox Wire Editor Summary Kiln, Double Fine’s upcoming multiplayer online pottery party brawler, launches on April 23 – including Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, Xbox Cloud, PlayStation 5,…
While SpongeBob goes back to Switch 1. THQ Nordic has announced that four “fan favourite” titles will be heading to new Nintendo Switch systems this year. Three will be making the most of the latest hardware’s improved specs as they jump from Switch 1 to 2, while one Switch 2 title will be expanding its…
‘Jaleco Arcade Collection Vol. 1’ and ‘Jaleco Arcade Collection Vol. 2’ announced. Earlier today, the Korean-owned publisher Gravity Game Arise announced plans to bring two new collections featuring games from the famous Japanese developer Jaleco to PC, giving players a new way to pick up 32 of the company’s classic arcade games (h/t: Gematsu!). Jaleco…
If you think you’re tired of seeing generative AI everywhere, well at least your inbox (probably) isn’t full of it (yet), which is more than can be said for indie developer and publisher Finji. CEO Rebekah Saltsman says that the studio’s inbox is crammed full of games made with AI, pitches written with AI, and…
Category: Xbox Insider March 18, 2026 Available for Xbox Insiders: More Groups on Home, Custom User Colors, Quick Resume Settings, and More Alex ChartersSenior Product Manager At Xbox, your feedback helps shape how we build and improve the player experience. Starting today, select Xbox Insiders can begin testing several highly requested updates coming soon to Xbox consoles. These features will…
It is about one hour to presentation time and Alexander Helliwell has decided to experiment. His mod—an attempt to convert Prologue: Go Wayback’s default temperate woodland biome to a scorching desert—was looking pretty slick last time I passed by: all dazzling sunsets and dry heat and, an added bonus, running quite well. Turns out that…
“This is all the validation I need”. In recent times, we’ve seen a flood of games being ported to consoles that they were never on back in the day. Games like Metal Gear Solid, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, GTA3, Virtua Fighter 4, and many more have been shown running on platforms which, once upon…
Switch tactics. Developer Mimimi Games and publisher Daedalic Entertainment have unleashed Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun on the Switch 2, with an appropriately sneaky launch trailer to mark its release. In our recent review, we called Shadow Tactics “a fantastic real-time tactics adventure that wows with top-notch gameplay, fantastic looks, and a set of…