Asus announces the Raikiri II controller with anti-drift TMR joysticks and 1000 Hz wireless polling, which should make the Razer Wolverine V3 Pro look up from its breakfast

Asus announces the Raikiri II controller with anti-drift TMR joysticks and 1000 Hz wireless polling, which should make the Razer Wolverine V3 Pro look up from its breakfast

Asus has announced a new version of its Raikiri gaming controller at Gamescom 2025, which to my eyes looks like it’s hot on the heels of one of my favourite models, the Razer Wolverine V3 Pro. While the Razer currently holds the best Hall effect spot in our hearts (and our guide), Asus says the…

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Slay the Spire 2 dev says its Marathon joke turned out ‘a bit meaner than expected’ in hindsight: ‘To be fair I didn’t think we’d actually pass Marathon in concurrent users’

Comedy tends to land better when you punch up rather than punch down—but what about when, as you begin to wind up your punch, you go from a highly anticipated indie to the #1 best selling game on Steam, bypassing the likes of Resident Evil Requiem and Marathon? Mega Crit, developers of Slay the Spire…

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Assassin’s Creed Shadows didn’t have yellow paint originally, but unfortunately players like me are stupid

Yellow paint: it’s the scourge of our time. Or at least, that’s what I’ve gathered from the approximately 4,000,000 online arguments that are happening about it at any given moment. People—some people—really don’t love it when games splash helpful dashes of yellow on every surface you can climb on, calling it daft and immersion-breaking. Which,…

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Switch 2 Was Very Nearly Called ‘Super Nintendo Switch’

What could’ve been… Hopefully, you’ll have gotten used to the name ‘Nintendo Switch 2’ by now. Given how much we now know about Nintendo’s latest hardware, the firm’s approach to its name actually makes a lot of sense. According to an Ask the Developer interview with Kouichi Kawamoto, Takuhiro Dohta, and Tetsuya Sasaki, however, it…

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