8BitDo has a knack for gear I’d broadly describe as ‘neat’. From pleasant aesthetics, to solid ease of use, to the recent addition of tidy charging docks, my desk is currently covered in tech from the company. And that’s for good reason. My 8BitDo Retro R8 isn’t as competitively viable as the Logitech I swapped…
With CES 2025 mere days away, the rumour mill surrounding Nvidia’s next generation GPUs is now spinning at an astonishing rate. The internet is clamouring for any potential info on RTX 50-series graphics cards, and thanks to a newly-released teaser video and some image-editing techniques, our first look at what might be a Founders Edition…
I grew up playing with a lot of desktop pets, which probably explains my need to have so many real ones now I have my own money and free will. But there’s something about bugs which just puts me off owning them. Mostly because of their short lifespans and my larger critters which would eat…
‘Karous’ launched on the console in 2007. Milestone Inc.’s Sega Naomi-powered vertical shoot ’em up, Karous, is getting a rerelease on Steam next year, courtesy of the developer and publisher RS34. It will be released on January 22nd, 2026, and will reportedly include a full English localization. Karous was originally released for arcades back in…
After attracting nearly $35 million in an initial round of funding and another $2.3 million on Kickstarter, Stormgate developer Frost Giant Studios is looking to raise even more money, this time by inviting supporters to invest in the company in an upcoming “crowd-equity campaign.” The investment campaign isn’t set to kick off in full until…
Without the slightest fanfare, AMD has added a new “X3D” model with 3D V-Cache to its CPU lineup. Give it up, ladies and germs, for the new Ryzen 5 5500X3D (thanks to X user MEGAsizeGPU for spotting it). It’s a six-core, 12-thread chip with 96 MB of L3 cache memory, which makes it a hardware…
Pre-orders open later this month. Ahead of the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 movie and Knuckles Paramount series, First 4 Figures has shared a “sneak peek” of its new ‘Knuckles Standoff’ figure. This is the second statue in the same series which also features the ‘Sonic Standoff’ figure. As you can see, instead of Knuckle’s look…
What happens when the most magical couple in the land breaks up? The so-called Wicked Witch of the West steals all the Wizard’s stuff, just to dump it across the land of Oz, of course. Being the whiny little Wizard he is, and with a head as big as his ego, he blackmails you –…
“We had it in our pocket”. When Nintendo secured home console exclusivity for Street Fighter 2 in the early 1990s, it sent shockwaves through the gaming world. Capcom’s one-on-one fighter was the world’s biggest game at the time, and whichever home system got the first port was going to benefit massively – and I imagine…
Thanks to our development friends at Panic Button, Rocket League will soon officially support the PlayStation 4 Pro! On February 21, we will release a new update that allows Rocket League to run at both 1080p (on a standard PS4) and 4K (on PS4 Pro) at 60 frames per second in all arenas for single…