An Australian court has ordered YouTuber Karl Jobst to pay over AU$380,000 (around $237,000 / £183,000) in damages to celebrity arcade gamer Billy Mitchell, relating to defamatory comments made by Jobst in a video published in 2021. Jobst is a Queensland-based gaming YouTuber with a focus on speedrunning and competitive games. Mitchell’s record-holding Donkey Kong…
External GPUs can be a neat way of boosting your laptop’s gaming performance, but the market isn’t exactly awash with models to choose from. You can use a normal graphics card, but then you have another problem: how to mount it all safely. Well, this 3D printed eGPU ‘suitcase’ solves that issue entirely and looks…
With the launch of Gran Turismo Sport just around the corner on October 17, there’s a lot of exciting information to share about the new game. We wanted to provide a roundup of some of the announcements that you may have missed, as well as some new details for the dedicated among you. GT Sport…
Survival horror title launched alongside the console. Today marks the 30th birthday of NEC and Hudson’s PC-FX system, a Japan-only sequel to the PC Engine / TG-16 which sadly failed to set the gaming world alight. Despite only selling 300,000 units, the PC-FX still has its fans – as is evidenced by the fact that…
Adventure Canoe originally released in arcades in 1982. Taito’s 1982 top-down river adventure game, Adventure Canoe, isn’t exactly the best-known or best-documented game from the legendary arcade developer. If you look it up online, for instance, one of the first search results is a forum thread from 2019 where commenters are questioning whether the game…
Turning the Xbox One into a Steam Machine When Microsoft announced that anyone with an Xbox One would be able to stream their games to a PC running Windows 10, we thought, ‘Cool! Now let’s see that work in reverse.’ And to be honest, we’re a little creeped out — apparently Microsoft can read our…
Phil Spencer: “Banjo fans, I hear you”. Rare’s famous bear and bird duo Banjo-Kazooie made a return via Nintendo’s Switch Online service last year, and ever since then, fans have been calling for a proper comeback. There have even been some rumours doing the rounds about a possible revival, so what are the chances of…
Battery startup BMX (Better Mobile Xperience) claims that some airlines are now banning standard lithium-ion batteries due to safety concerns. Whether that’s true, more on which in a sec’, its new solid-state USB-C charging pack does look interesting, especially once you’ve seen BMX drive a nail through it and have it allegedly keep on working….
The gaming industry in 2025 remains a giant of global entertainment, with billions of players and revenues in the hundreds of billions of dollars. Verified market data from 2024 shows the industry earning close to $187.7 billion, with both mobile and PC gaming contributing significantly, though in different ways. Mobile platforms reach a wider audience,…
Do you scoff at stock firmware? We still regard the Linksys WRT1900AC as one of the best and fastest routers available, though if you’re eyeing that model, there’s a new version available with more memory and a faster processor. It’s the WRT1900ACS, which is essentially an improved version of the WRT1900AC. The new model boasts…