Round Up: The Reviews Are In For Mario Kart World

Round Up: The Reviews Are In For Mario Kart World

Here’s what the critics think. Video game media has now been tearing up the track in Mario Kart World for a week now – so what’s the final verdict? This new entry, including a whole world to explore and Knockout Tour, is currently sitting on a critic score of 87/100 on Metacritic, with “generally favorable…

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OUT NOW: TAITO Alpha Bartop Arcade

library of cartridgesOUT NOW: TAITO Alpha Bartop Arcade!  The newest member of the Alpha family joins the award-winning Street Fighter and Mega Man Bartop arcades… The TAITO Alpha Bartop Arcade is here, featuring 10 classic TAITO games, including BUBBLE BOBBLE, SPACE INVADERS and more! Much like the Street Fighter and Mega Man Alphas, the TAITO…

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My quick test of Lumen Lite shows that it’s probably good news for ray-traced gaming on handheld PCs, but I suspect that it will be used everywhere because of the pressure developers are now under

At its State of Unreal event in Chicago, Epic Games officially unveiled Unreal Engine 5.8, and one of its key new features is Lumen Lite: a scalability setting that targets the use of ray-traced global illumination for the Nintendo Switch 2, with the goal of 60 fps. As the feature also works for PCs, I…

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AOC’s new 34-inch gaming monitor gets the same sizzling 5th Gen QD-OLED panel tech as our current favorite ultrawide but it’s a whole lot cheaper

Samsung’s latest 5th Gen QD-OLED tech really rocks in the MSI MPG 341CQR X36. It’s brighter and faster, the purple tint thing is reduced and you get true RGB-stripe pixels, too. The only problem is the price. But this new AOC monitor offers exactly the same Samsung panel, just cheaper. Nice. Key specs: 5th Gen…

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