MSI’s upcoming Claw 8 AI+ gaming handheld appears to perform around 20% better than our current favorite gaming handheld—the Asus ROG Ally X—at the same power consumption level. In some games, it might even reach 113%, but there are some odd games in the company’s benchmark ringer. The scores come from MSI’s own official, in-house…
Well, in a totally fake kind of way. Toward the end of 2023, it was revealed that a Donkey Kong expansion would be making its way to Super Nintendo World in Universal Studios Japan. Now, thanks to some keen investigation from CoasterTalk (thanks, Gizmodo), some more information has been discovered regarding the site’s new rollercoaster…
Built by Valve, powered by SteamOS, the new Steam Machine is a compact gaming PC. One trying to make good on a promise Valve made a long time ago. With prototype Steam Machines heading out to reviewers back in 2013, us included, the company had grand plans of reinventing what constitutes a gaming PC around…
Shift Up has been listening to feedback. In case you missed it, a few upcoming Switch 2 releases will experiment with frame generation to help lift the action to 60fps. For Dragon’s Dogma 2, the game’s producer recently revealed there would be a toggle option to turn this feature on or off. Stellar Blade is…
Last year we reported on a phenomenon that, frankly, left PC Gamer’s editorial team a little baffled. We were in one of our morning meetings when someone shared Banana, a free-to-play game available on Steam where you click on an image of a banana, but what was mind-blowing were the player counts. This was in…
So why the omission? Nintendo has issued a short statement in response to the backlash following the omission of Retro Studios’ staff from the credits of Donkey Kong Country Returns HD. In speaking with Eurogamer, Nintendo said that it believes in “giving proper credit for anyone involved in making or contributing to a game’s creation”….
You can pre-order your copy now! The retro publisher Thalamus Digital has revealed that it will be selling physical versions of Hoffman’s Amiga port of Triple Eh Ltd’s indie twin-stick shooter Cecconoid. The publisher made the announcement yesterday on Twitter, with pre-orders going live on its web site. There are five different options to pick…
John Szczepaniak’s Iberian quest. The Catalonian cultural tradition of the Caganer is celebrated by these odd littlesouvenirs After the success of my academic talk in Birmingham in May, Dr Victor Navarro Remesal invited me to give a guest lecture to his students at the TecnoCampus University in Mataró, Spain. The state of current games education…
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…
Get that Friday feeling in your daily puzzle gaming by treating yourself to an easy Wordle win. We won’t tell anyone if you take a sneaky peek at the August 8 (1511) answer, promise. And if you want to browse today’s hints and helpful clue at any time while you’re here? We didn’t see a…