Watch out, Mario Kart World. Kirby has the ability to put everyone in a good mood, right? I mean, I’ve been in a lovely mood thanks to the pink puffball (and Nintendo), as I was lucky enough to go hands-on with the upcoming racer Kirby Air Riders for the Nintendo Switch 2 at Gamescom in…
Thousands of Street Fighter V players have battled all year for a spot in Capcom Cup 2017. This weekend at PlayStation Experience in Anaheim, CA, 32 of the best players in the world compete to become the Street Fighter V World Champion and take home over $370,000 in prize money. For the first time in…
There’s a tradition among Dungeons & Dragons players—and honestly, RPGs at large—that if you get to a high enough level, you’re gonna kill a god. Unless, of course, you’re running a campaign for a table of obstinate players who want to kill the devil instead. This officially-sanctioned D&D book from Arcanum Worlds lets you do…
Let me start off this review with something that became immediately obvious when I pulled this laptop from the box: The MSI Raider 18 HX AI is a hefty boi. A chungus. A honking, chonking, slab of a gaming laptop. In a world where laptops like the Razer Blade 16 and the Asus ROG Zephyrus…
How do you follow-up a game with an entire galaxy of procedurally-generated planets? With one procedurally-generated planet, it turns out—but it’s a really big one. Ten years on from the original announcement of No Man’s Sky at the VGX awards, Hello Games has announced its new project, Light No Fire, at the TGA. It’s clearly…
Gotta catch ’em all. If you cast your mind back to earlier this year, you might recall that a man was arrested in Japan for selling modded data from Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. Well, it’s clear that not everyone was paying attention to the repercussions, as last week, Japanese police announced that they had arrested…
Of the three hardware announcements Valve made yesterday, the Steam Controller is probably the least exciting at face value. It looks a whole lot like the original Steam controller, which hardly set the world ablaze. Also, it’s a gamepad. There are countless PC gamepads on the market, and many are better than what Microsoft or…
Making money in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is surprisingly tough—somewhat ironic considering the name of the game. Poor Ichiban Kasuga finds himself stranded in Hawaii with nothing but the clothes on his back, but there are plenty of ways for an enterprising ex-yakuza with a sunny disposition to get some cash. Whether it’s scavenging…
President Tump and TSMC’s head honcho C.C. Wei took the the Roosevelt Room in the White House yesterday to announce a monstrous $100 billion investment plan in the US including three new fabs or factories that manufacture computer chips. However, the investment is under review by the Taiwanese government which has emphasised that TSMC’s most…
The developer of an upcoming horror drinking game has cancelled plans for a public Steam demo in favour of private preview sessions, citing concerns that AI vibe coders might use the demo’s content to clone the game. Drunken Goddess Reflux is a “shot glass Russian roulette” drinking game where players square off against an anime…