Sweet! We knew that some Splatfest themes would make a comeback once Nintendo announced that Splatoon 3‘s “regular updates” would come to an end, and next month we’ll see just that! The 2023 chocolate-themed Splatfest will be the first theme returning to the Splatlands next month, with the battle of “What’s your favourite chocolate?” getting…
Mafia: The Old Country is the fourth game in the Mafia series, and a prequel to the original Mafia. After an all-too brief announcement teaser back in August at Gamescom, we were finally treated to a full-on cinematic trailer tonight at The Game Awards. The trailers shows a young and ambitious man named Enzo Favara…
Baldur’s Gate 3 has been out for a while now—and if you’re anything like me, finishing your first playthrough left you with the post-completion blues. It’s easy to turn to wishing real hard for DLC under that duress, but I want to warn you: that wish might just see the curl of the displacer beast’s…
A potent portable MSI on Monday announced the availability of its GS40 Phantom laptop, which it’s pitching as the thinnest and lightest gaming notebook in the galaxy. To make that claim, the thing weighs just 3.5 pounds and measures 0.86 inches thick. “The GS40 Phantom is a breakthrough in design that combines the power of…
Famitsu is teasing a Taito Milestones livestream for next week. It’s been a while since we’ve heard an update on the Taito Milestones series of retro compilations, with the last collection in the series, Taito Milestones 3, having been released all the way back in the final months of 2024. But now, it looks as…
Three years after debuting for PC on the Epic Games Store, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2, a remastered bundle of the first two games in the long-running Tony Hawk series, finally made its way to Steam earlier this month. By and large it’s been well received, but there’s one persistent complaint: A lot of players…
In one of your earliest quests out of the bunker in Escape From Duckov, Jeff sends you off to kill and loot a couple Rampaging Scavengers: “the red ones with butcher knives.” It’s a straightforward description, and the little suckers are hard to forget if you’ve encountered them. They aren’t hanging around as random spawns…
Panos Panay, chief product officer at Microsoft, is leaving after almost 20 years. Executive vice president Rajesh Jha told employees on Monday in an internal memo. “After nearly 20 years at the company, Panos Panay has decided to leave Microsoft. Panos has had an incredible impact on our products and culture and the broader devices…
The latest Z790 refresh board we have in for review is the ASRock Z790 Riptide WiFi. It’s a part of ASRock’s Phantom Gaming lineup. It’s an affordable option that comes with out of the box support for Intel’s 14th Gen processors, though of course it supports 12th and 13th Gen processors as well. At just…
Three of them, to be precise. You’d be forgiven for thinking that Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road came out years ago. We’ve been hearing about this Level-5 RPG under a variety of names since way back in 2018, but now, as the 13th November kick-off date draws ever closer, the game has finally scored a ‘final’…