The Leon and Winding Road. Well, The Game Awards 2025 are finally in the rear-view mirror, and there were… a fair number of Switch announcements — that’s a nice change! Yes, alongside Nintendo picking up a couple of awards, there were also a bunch of “World Premieres” and updates for titles we can expect to…
If you read the history books of the 16th century, Sayyida al-Hurra will rarely show up. The powerful women of the Mediterranean and Islam typically don’t, except as footnotes or asides. So her leadership, piracy and plundering for her people never quite made the major texts. But the “pirate queen” of Morocco is finally receiving…
Mii, myself and I. We had to give our eyes a little rub and pull a double-take as we opened this week’s UK charts data this morning. Is that… Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream in the top spot? Yes, despite the series being far from Nintendo’s most popular, the Switch life sim has immediately grabbed…
A village sits empty. The scattered remnants of life strewn over street corners and across the cluttered, quiet counters of kitchens. What happened? What’s left in the wake of such a catastrophic incident? These are the questions you’ll attempt to answer in Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, which is out this week on PS4. Everybody’s…
Back in the halcyon days of 1998, Ritual Entertainment’s Sin was shaping up to be the hottest shooter released that year. An over-the-top, hyper-violent gunfest with the backing of John Romero and a dash of what, at the time, qualified as sex appeal, Sin seemed destined to be the shooter on everyone’s hard-drive by the…
The Xbox brand, from its name to its design language, has always felt to me like it was made up of a mix of early 2000s spikey hair and what people found cool in the 90s. Nothing quite exemplifies this more than the great big silver Xbox prototype shown off just before the release of…
Sky’s the limit for Skylake-S Intel is gearing up to launch its Skylake processors at the beginning of next month (the rumored launch is August 5), and most of what we’ve seen so far about the new architecture has been impressive. You can add overclocking potential to the list. Chinese-language website HKEPC posted a CPU-Z…
This week’s Nintendo Download includes the following content: Activities: Kirby Delivers Some Tetris® 99 Fun – The 19th MAXIMUS CUP event for the Tetris 99 game allows you to earn an in-game theme based on the Kirby Fighters 2 game. Now you can channel your inner fighting spirit into Tetris 99 on the Nintendo Switch…
Best deals and cheapest prices. Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition is coming to Switch on 20th March and its release marks the arrival of one of the most anticipated Wii U ports on Nintendo’s hybrid console. The series has gone from strength to strength on Switch, with XC2 and XC3 bringing new fans into the…
Top Deal: Not feeling the performance benefits of Skylake just yet? That’s okay, you can still build and/or upgrade a PC on previous generation architecture and still have a powerhouse on your hands. Case in point, today’s top deal for an Intel Core i7-4790K Devil’s Canyon Quad-Core 4.0 GHz LGA 1150 Processor for $325 with…