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Finally, a new controller that solves the Switch 2's "flat Joy-Con" problem

But Nyxi's Hyperion 3 upgrade comes with a pretty high asking price.

arstechnica.com

Jan 22

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Seasonal Switch 2 sales show significant slowing as annual cycle sunsets

After record-setting launch, Western holiday sales are down compared to the first Switch.

arstechnica.com

Jan 8

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Switch 2 pub backs off Game Key Cards after leaking lower-cost cartridge options

Inin suggests new low-cost options allowed it to "recalculate production" for full cartridge.

arstechnica.com

Dec 19, 2025

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Kirby Air Riders review – cute pink squishball challenges Mario for Nintendo racing supremacy

Nintendo Switch 2; Bandai Namco/Sora/HAL Laboratory/Nintendo It takes some getting used to, but this Mario Kart challenger soon reveals a satisfyingly zen, minimalist approach to competitive racing In the world of cartoonish racing games, it’s clear who is top dog. As Nintendo’s moustachioed plumber lords it up from his gilded go-kart, everyone from Crash Bandicoot to Sonic and Garfield has tried – and failed – to skid their way on to the podium. Now with no one left to challenge its karting dominance, Nintendo is attempting to beat itself at its own game. The unexpected sequel to a critically panned 2003 GameCube game, Kirby Air Riders has the pink squishball and friends hanging on for dear life to floating race machines. With no Grand Prix to compete in, in the game’s titular mode you choose a track and compete to be the first of six players to cross the finish line, spin-attacking each other and unleashing weapons and special abilities to create cutesy, colourful chaos. Continue reading...

theguardian.com

Nov 26, 2025

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How generative AI in Arc Raiders started a scrap over the gaming industry’s future

The use of AI in the surprise game-of-the-year contender has sparked a heated cultural and ethical debate, and raised existential questions for artists, writers and voice actors • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Arc Raiders is, by all accounts, a late game-of-the-year contender. Dropped into a multiplayer world overrun with hostile drones and military robots, every human player is at the mercy of the machines – and each other. Can you trust the other raider you’ve spotted on your way back to humanity’s safe haven underground, or will they shoot you and take everything you’ve just scavenged? Perhaps surprisingly, humanity is (mostly) choosing to band together, according to most people I’ve talked to about this game. In a review for Gamespot , Mark Delaney paints a beguiling picture of Arc Raiders’s potential for generating war stories, and highlights its surprisingly hopeful tone as the thing that elevates it above similar multiplayer extraction shooters: “We can all kill each other in Arc Raiders. The fact that most of us are choosing instead to lend a helping hand, if not a sign that humanity will be all right in the real world, at the very least makes for one of the best multiplayer games I’ve ever played.” Continue reading...

theguardian.com

Nov 19, 2025

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The Analogue 3D is the modern N64 fans have been waiting for

Excellent design and display filters, but the lack of OpenFPGA support rankles.

arstechnica.com

Nov 18, 2025

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