Mew-sic to our ears. Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket has announced its first new Booster Pack, and it’s coming to the game on 17th December 2024. The new expansion is called Mythic Island and stars Mew EX, alongside Celebi EX, trainer card Blue, Aerodactyl EX, Marshadow, Morelull, and a handful of other newcomers. New cosmetic…
I dread to think how bad things would have been had Intel released this Arc B580 graphics card back in the summer. All year long we’ve been expecting the new Battlemage GPU architecture to arrive in a new suite of discrete Intel graphics cards, but we’ve had to wait until the very last minute of…
Christmas is a wonderful time of year. It’s full of reunions, hot chocolate, presents, and organisational stress. Most people are bogged down with travel plans, parties, presents, gift wrapping, and the like—which is a bit of a stressor for us DMs, who are already perpetually organising something for our players. Luckily, there’s going to be…
What is it with you hero types? Always the same line. Being from the UK, the name ‘Rita’ never quite sat right with us for Power Rangers. It sounds too much like Rita from down the chip shop, who might ask if you want salt and vinegar with that; or Rita from round the corner,…
We go hands-on with the Famicom edition. Cat Hui Trading’s Changeable Guardian Estique has turned out to be one of the more welcome surprises of 2024. A new shmup from developers responsible for titles such as Wonder Boy, Aleste, Spriggan Mark 2, and Golvellius, it pushes the NES / Famicom hardware to its absolute limit…
Path of Exile 2 has been out on Steam Early Access for nary a week, but already it’s been a wild ride of record-breaking player counts, servers buckling under the load, and overpowered builds that can one-shot bosses (though when they’re not being ganked by broken builds, the bosses are actually way more challenging than…
Along with a bunch of physical goodies. Japanese publisher Superdeluxe has today announced that it is releasing physical editions of Assault Suit Valken Declassified on Nintendo Switch. The game – originally released as Cybernator in the West – will be published in March 2025 and comes in two versions. Read the full article on timeextension.com…
It’s been four years since It Takes Two, the phenomenally good dedicated co-op adventure that was Hazelight’s last outing. That game has sold an astonishing 20 million copies and is by far the biggest success that EA’s Originals label has seen: So no surprise the publisher has signed up the studio’s next joint, and the…
Five gold RINGS. We’re almost halfway through December, so you know what’s almost upon us? That’s right, it’s nearly time for Christmas Day Sonic the Hedgehog 3‘s theatrical release! Before the blue blur arrives on the big screen for the third time on 20th December, Paramount Pictures is filling the holiday season with festive tie-ins,…
“Trevor would be proud”. Netflix has released an official trailer for Castlevania Nocturne Season 2, which it has revealed will be launching early next year on January 15th on the streaming platform. The new trailer is roughly two minutes long and shows the vampire hunter Richter Belmont and the rest of his party recovering from…