Two batteries are better than one We love that laptops are getting slimmer, lighter, and overall more portable than ever before (have a look at Michael Dell introducing a new notebook 25 years ago), but if your work (or pleasure) takes you off the beaten path into some extreme environments, a thin and light machine…
I said to myself I wasn’t going to feature any more Pac-Man games, especially as we’ve featured it so many times now with systems being mentioned such as the Atari 2600, Commodore Amiga, Intellivision and even the one that appeared on the Pico-8! Well we’ve got another update for you if you love this classic…
XCOM: Chimera Squad was announced less than two weeks before it was released, and then was sold for an introductory price of $10. You’d think that would garner it some goodwill—given how often people complain about games being hyped up years ahead of release, looking at you Elder Scrolls 6—but instead it seemed to give…
Kickstart a week of NYT Connections with a guaranteed win: all you have to do is sneak a cheeky peek at today’s answers and then bask in your speedy victory. If you prefer to keep things honest but can’t quite find the link between words, take a look at the hints for the September 18…
“Because it was for Nintendo, we made everyone have water pistols”. Since its original debut on the Wii U in 2015, the Splatoon series has become one of Nintendo’s most beloved franchises, with countless players having fallen in love with its stylish and colourful vision of a world where evolved marine lifeforms duke it out…
If you weren’t able to attend gamescom 2026 this week – and thus haven’t been able to see Playground Games’ presentation of brand new quest gameplay from Fable – never fear. Above, you can watch a full 18 minutes of gameplay centred on a quest through Bowerstone, the series’ reimagined capital city. Along the way,…
Given away when Color TV Game Block Kuzushi launched. Before Nintendo took the world by a storm with the Famicom / NES, it produced a range of ‘Color TV Game’ systems in Japan, starting with the Color TV-Game 6 and Color TV-Game 15 in 1977. 1979’s Color TV Game Block Kuzushi cost ¥13,500 and featured…
I hate running. While I’m happy to throw the odd weight around in an effort to slow my descent into decrepitude, I refuse to submit my legs to such a cumbersome form of exercise. It looks like Nike might be about to change all that, however, as its Project Amplify footwear system is designed to…
Word on the streets is that Warner Bros is leaving Antstream Arcade, but do not fret retro gamer! For every game, there is an alternative or Ant-ernative; for every legend, another hero is willing to step into the breach. Join us as we look at what you can discover instead… Shrinking Back To Human Form:…
As Switch 1, predictably, grinds to a halt. Nintendo forecasts Switch 2 sales of 15 million units by the end of the 2025/26 financial year. The company also expects triple that number of software sales (45 million), excluding bundled software such as the Mario Kart World bundle launching alongside the base model on 5th June….