Cherry proclaims a ‘new era’ for keyboard switches: induction is ‘half the cost of a regular mechanical switch’, more reliable, and less power hungry than analog alternatives

When you think of Cherry, you think of the Cherry MX switch or the fruit. I’m talking about the former today, as the company behind the world’s most renowned mechanical switch tells me it’s in a ‘new era’ with its latest, the Cherry IK. Move aside, mechanical. Cherry IK are analogue induction switches and, speaking…

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Nvidia’s CEO says attempts to control chip exports to China are a failure: ‘If they don’t have enough Nvidia, they will use their own.’

Attempts by the US government to put a cap on China’s development of AI technologies by limiting exports of GPUs has been a “failure”. So says no less an authority on the subject than Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang. The New York Times quotes Huang at the ongoing Computex show in Taipei, Taiwan denouncing GPU export…

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JDM: Japanese Drift Master review

You’ll remember, of course, the drift events in classic Need for Speed. During that noughties era when the games were soundtracked by crunk songs, told quasi-Fast and Furious tales, and reached Christmas number one in the charts with the certainty of an X Factor winner, NFS introduced drifting as a sort of side-show. There was…

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Havn’s Doom special edition PC case offers not one, but two sets of hollowed eye sockets to judge you while you game

Bones are cool, bones are fun—just make sure you pop them back when you’re done. Indeed, Jacob, one of our intrepid Computex 2025 reporters, took these words to heart when Havn let him play with their funky fake skull. The aforementioned metallic noggin’ is currently on display as part of their soon-to-be-released Doom special edition…

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Monster Train 2 review

Need to Know What is it? A devilish deckbuilder with an inspired injection of tower defence.Release date May 21, 2025Expect to pay $25 / £21Developer Shiny ShoePublisher Big Fan GamesReviewed on Gigabyte G5, ASUS Rog AllySteam Deck VerifiedLink Official site I’ve been more hyped for this sequel than I am for the return of Christ….

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‘AH can we please keep them’: Helldivers 2 players have fully imprinted onto the game’s new SEAF troops like they’re a bunch of kittens up for adoption

If there’s one thing I’ve discovered through years of playing—and now writing—about videogames, it’s that players love a little guy. They just adore having darling underdogs that are on their side, as long as they’re unobtrusive and perhaps minimally helpful. So it goes with Helldivers 2’s latest update, Heart of Democracy, which has introduced the…

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