We feel a new main coming along… The Mario Kart World Direct has been and gone, and we learnt… not all that much actually. What we did get out of it, mind you, is a fresh batch of screenshots from Nintendo, showcasing the majority of our new racers with some stunning close-ups. World appears to…
2026 seems to be the time of the open-back gaming headset. After years of not seeing much in this sector (bar the Corsair Virtuoso Pro), we’ve seen a return to form for this admittedly niche sector that I’m all for. First, it was the turn of Asus with the Hifiman-collab Asus ROG Kithara with its…
Packing power in a small package Holiday shopping is coming, and there’s the stress to buy the right thing for the right person, all within a tight holiday deadline. It sucks. It’s stressful. And it probably makes you want to kick an elf right in its stupid elfy face. For some of us, building a…
Animal Crossing: New Horizons, yet again, is the focus of a new episode of Nintendo Minute. Kit and Krysta said in the video description that “we’re enjoying a beautiful summer day today in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. It’s so nice to spend a day in the sun and then end it with a fireworks show….
A week after new Xbox chief Asha Sharma said Game Pass had become “too expensive,” Microsoft has announced a pretty significant cut in the price: An Xbox Wire post says Game Pass Ultimate has dropped from $29.99 per month to $22.99, while PC Game Pass is going from $16.49 to $13.99. Naturally, as the lawyers…
Spooky fun in the palms of your hands. Be warned: It’s Resident Evil, so there are some grisly, head-bitey bits in this video After so many years of performance issues on the original Switch, I haven’t quite gotten used to the fact that most games on Switch 2 hit a stable 60fps and that modern…
There’s an introductory text on the first page of Warhammer 40,000’s first edition that’s been rewritten for various contexts since, with phrases like “there is no peace amongst the stars” and “the laughter of thirsting gods” becoming cheerful taglines for the series as a whole. Now it’s the trailer narration for the upcoming 11th edition,…
Disk Cleanup Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend column delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like “how tidy is your desktop?” and “what game will you never uninstall?” As with many first-generation PC gamers, Stephen Kick was exposed…
If you’re looking to build a Mini-ITX PC using one of AMD’s Ryzen 7000- or 9000-series CPUs then there’s quite a range of Mini-ITX motherboards to choose from, bolstered relatively recently by the launch of the B850 chipset that mostly brings lower price points than X870 and X870E. One of these is the ASRock Phantom…
Dr. Mario World, the free-to-play smartphone game, launched way back in the summer of last year and Nintendo is still supporting the app with a steady(ish) stream of recognisable characters from the Mario universe. Well, next up is the beloved Piranha Plant. ‘Dr Piranaha Plant’ is making his way to Dr Mario World today but…