Hello, Mario!, amiibo, and merch incoming. Back in August, Nintendo announced a line of child-friendly products under the ‘My Mario’ banner, including a free Hello, Mario! app for Switch and mobile, cute sets of wooden block amiibo, and assorted merch aimed at babies and toddlers. It was only a matter of time before it all…
Despite no one who’s ever worked as a retail worker recommending it, retail sims are a burgeoning genre following hits like Supermarket Simulator, TCG Card Shop Simulator, and (technically) Schedule 1. I suppose angry customers, low pay, and terrible hours aren’t really that bad when it’s all digital and you’re holding the cards. It turns…
With the global memory shortage set to run throughout 2026 and probably well in 2027, prices of everything that requires DRAM are only going to rise. However, thanks to a wealth of graphics cards being in stock over the last quarter of 2025, GPUs have yet to significantly spike in price. Some models have risen…
Interface upgrade. I’ll get this out of the way early – as much as I adore Sega’s last home console, I never loved the Dreamcast controller. Sure, there were things I liked about it; it was pretty comfortable to hold, the Hall Effect stick was great (Sega used the same tech in its Saturn 3D…
The life sim genre is in a slump. All the omens pointed to a life sim renaissance in 2025 that just didn’t happen. Life By You got canned in 2024, Paralives is delayed until later this year, and Inzoi hasn’t made quite the splash to revitalize the genre that I’d hoped for. Meanwhile The Sims…
Need to Know What is it? A roguelike deckbuilder about melding dogs together.Release date December 10, 2025Expect to pay $10/£8.50Developer Studio Folly, Toot Games, FootPublisher WINGSReviewed on Nvidia Geforce RTX 3080, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAMSteam Deck PlayableLink Official site There are some games that build their entire experience around one ultra-satisfying little moment….
Go back a year to 18 months, and there’s absolutely no way you’d have picked Intel as the top candidate for the most exciting product launch at CES from the big tech players. But here we are, CES in January 2026, and Intel’s new Panther Lake chip isn’t just the most exciting launch. It’s virtually…
Panther Lake is a big deal for Intel. After the disappointment of Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake, and the backlash over the instability of Raptor Lake, the chip giant has bet big on 18A, the process node used to make the key component of the new chip, and introduced some key improvements with the architecture….
You know what they say: New year, more doom and gloom about the memory supply crisis. As it’s January, we’re also going to start hearing about how big tech fared financially during the final quarter of 2025—and obviously, many of these massive corporations are doing far better than anyone who just wants a reasonably priced…
One small step for man. The long-running Trails series needs little introduction, as Falcom has been chipping away at this JRPG narrative for the better part of two decades across a variety of arcs and perspectives spread over more than a dozen interconnected games. While newcomers have traditionally been discouraged by the mountain of homework…