Author: Trent Meikle

Tomorrow is the big day. Nintendo will finally give its rabid fans a deeper look (and a reason to keep going) at the Switch 2 in the form of a Nintendo Direct. The Japanese company only briefly showed off the new handheld console back in January, offering a peek at magnetic joy-cons, a larger body, and even Mario Kart 9 (or what we assume is Mario Kart 9, anyway). Flip the Switch 2 That first trailer was devoid of any specifics, like a proper release date, price, and the console’s internal specs. That’ll all be sorted out at the 2 April…

For months, rumours have spread that Xbox is looking to dive back into the console game, having quietly surrendered the console war, leading the company’s exclusives to land just about everywhere. A new plan of action was hatched to launch a handheld console of its own, meant to rival Nintendo’s Switch (2) and Valve’s Steam Deck. Now it seems that Xbox has teamed up with Asus to deliver that new handheld. Asus briefly teased an announcement over on X/Twitter, briefly showing off the company’s ROG Ally handheld and an Xbox-like ROG Raikiri Pro controller, further fuelling the Xbox connections. In…

Apple’s AI overhaul is here. Kinda In a bid to shove artificial intelligence into everything, Apple’s Health app could be the next of the Big Fruit Company’s apps to get the treatment. Known internally as Project Mulberry, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in his Power On newsletter (via Engadget), Apple has some major plans to make the Health experience a far more engaging one, embedding an AI agent into the mix that could “replicate” an actual doctor’s advice. Meant to serve as a ‘health coach’, the revitalised Health app would make recommendations on how to improve users’ lifestyles based on their saved health…

If you missed the news, Nintendo hosted a Switch 1-themed Direct yesterday to make way ahead of the coming Switch 2 deep-dive in April. No matter. We covered five of the biggest announcements during the roughly 30 minutes of footage shown off, failing to mention the best announcement of the night: Virtual Game Cards. We’ve all been there. Your sibling begs to borrow Super Mario Odyssey or something similar, but there’s just no way you’re letting them lay their grubby paws on your Switch OLED, where the game exists digitally. Virtual Game Cards changes all that. Like physical cartridges, players can now ‘lend’ their…

With the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct visible over the horizon, Nintendo took the opportunity to clean out its cupboards of the games just taking up shelf space through a Switch 1-themed Direct, which kicked off at 16h00 local time on Thursday, 27 March. The event showed off roughly 30 minutes of footage, with many hoping for even a glimpse of the elusive red and white insect. No such luck, unfortunately. No matter. We’ve totted up all the biggest announcements from the Direct, leaving the games like Disney Villains Cursed Café to fend for themselves. We’re more interested in the likes of…

What more could you possibly add to a blossoming universe brimming with more than 18 quintillion planets and even more species just begging to be discovered? Judging by the latest update hitting No Man’s Sky, the answer is ancient alien fossils, and the ability to dig them up and display them front and centre in your home. Paleontology has come to No Man’s Sky, in other words. Relics of a time before 2016 https://youtu.be/B3TWSQHaIMw As part of the ongoing seasons-long redemption arc Hello Games is currently riding, even nine years after the release of No Man’s Sky, this free DLC arrives…

Easily one of the worst decisions Amazon ever made was removing the tactile buttons that once adorned the edges of the Kindle e-reader. Since then, users have been forced to besmirch their e-ink displays with a touch of their finger to turn the page or flip back. Now, it seems, the Kindle is going back to its roots. Kinda. As part of a fresh update quietly rolled out targeting Amazon’s newer e-readers, smudgy screens may soon be a thing of the past. Rather than tapping the display to progress, users can now double-tap anywhere on the Kindle’s frame or even…

Nintendo’s goals are beyond our understanding. Clearly. In all its infinite wisdom, and less than a week until the blow-out Switch 2 presentation takes place, the Japanese outfit has seen fit to announce a decidedly Switch 2-less Nintendo Direct, which kicks off this afternoon. That’s Thursday, 27 March, for all you future readers out there. “Tune in tomorrow, March 27th, at 7 a.m. PT for a livestreamed #NintendoDirect, featuring around 30 minutes of upcoming games for Nintendo Switch. There will be no updates about Nintendo Switch 2 during this presentation,” Nintendo wrote in an announcement on X/Twitter. Is this goodbye…

Who said 2025 wasn’t the future? Netflix has just announced that it finally supports the increasingly popular HDR10+ format, an upgrade over the basic HDR10 format it previously supported. HDR10+, if you didn’t know, is on par with Dolby Vision, both of which are constantly fighting for your eyeball’s attention wherever you go by providing a higher quality image for your favourite movies and series. There’s just one problem… Netflix makes room for HDR10+ Okay, maybe two. First up – customers will require the weighty Premium plan (R200/m) before they can even think about viewing their shows in HDR10+. And…

Mark your calendars, folks. Apple has set the date for its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), which will kick off on 9 June. Apple has organised an in-person event for people in the States to watch the keynote live from Apple Park, while the rest of us will have to make do with the official livestream channels. WWDC for the W Apple hasn’t given away any secrets of what’s to come at this year’s showing, briefly hinting at some major changes headed to the company’s extensive software lineup. This at least aligns with the current rumours from Bloomberg (via The…