I’ve just wrapped up my benchmarking of the Intel Core Ultra X9 388H, or more commonly-known to most of you at this point, the top-end Intel Panther Lake mobile chip. It’s a feisty little beast, with iGPU performance that feels very close to what you might expect from an entry-level, discrete GPU-equipped gaming laptop—and that…
Beavis and Butt-Head Do Hollywood was supposed to launch at the end of the ’90s. Beavis and Butt-head made quite a cultural splash back in the ’90s, starring in a hit MTV show and a movie, as well as tie-in video games for Sega Genesis, SNES, Game Gear and Game Boy. A few years after…
Originally due out in March. Just two months ahead of launch, Koei Tecmo Games and Omega Force have delayed Dynasty Warriors 3: Complete Edition Remastered, which was due to come to Switch 1 and Switch 2 on 19th March 2026. The new date? There isn’t one yet, unfortunately, with the game’s producer Tomohiko Sho sharing…
Capcom recently invited me to go hands-on for a few hours with Resident Evil Requiem. The new sections are set in Rhodes Hill hospital and feature series icon Leon S. Kennedy, playable for the first time since being confirmed last December. My mission going in was to examine what’s new with Leon’s combat options and…
Category: Games January 26, 2026 Resident Evil Requiem is Two Games in One (and a Lot of Fun) Will Fulton, Xbox Wire Editor Summary Resident Evil Requiem, the series’ ninth main entry, arrives February 27 on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox on PC. Newcomer Grace Ashcroft joins recurring series hero Leon Kennedy as dual protagonists,…
Leon Kennedy has a chainsaw. I’m three minutes into Resident Evil Requiem, and my first fight with a crowded hospital hall full of zombies is already shouting what seems to be the game’s guiding principle: the stuff you love in old Resident Evil, plus the stuff you love in new Resident Evil, smashed together into…
You’ve read my breakdown on the architecture behind Intel’s new Panther Lake processors. You’ve gone through every graphics benchmark that Andy has done with the range-topping Core Ultra X9 388H. Between the two of them, you’ve now decided that your next gaming laptop is going to be Panther Lake-powered and sport a big GPU from…
The European Commission has announced it is investigating Elon Musk’s X and Grok, its AI generation tool, for “manipulated sexually explicit images, including content that may amount to child sexual abuse material.” In December 2025, the social media site was hit with deepfake sexual imagery, where users could request Grok to generate pictures by simply…
“No sprites, no textures, no PNGs hidden behind the scenes”. Here’s something a little out of the ordinary. There’s a new R-Type & Gradius-inspired shoot ’em up currently in development, which takes the unusual approach of swapping out traditional 2D sprites and textures for graphics composed entirely of ASCII characters. Battle for Asciion shot across…
In certain parts of the world. Yesterday, Nintendo finally gave us our first look at Yoshi in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, thanks to a Nintendo Direct and a brand new trailer. And while Yoshi — and some other Mario series cameos — stole the spotlight, there’s one piece of additional news that fans in…