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Captured on Nintendo Switch 2 (Docked) There’s usually a number of a certain type of game that drops when a brand new console arrives on the scene. You know the ones, the quirky ones, the ones that utilise new tech and features — such as the Switch 2’s camera and game-sharing abilities — to give us something we haven’t seen …

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When I first saw this picture in the late summer of 2019, at the Venice Film Festival, I waxed persistently pessimistic about its prospects of ever being screened in the United States. The film’s director and co-screenwriter (with Robert Harris, adapting his own novel), Roman Polanski, is a well-known fugitive from United States justice, and the crime is rape. To …

Willem Dafoe brings star wattage to this watchable drama, playing brooding Greek plutocrat and alpha-patriarch Marcos Timoleon, transparently based on Aristotle Onassis: gazing impassively at people through his heavy glasses, doting menacingly on his dependents and given to exercising in the nude in front of the servants. Spanish film-maker Miguel Ángel Jiménez directs and co-writes this adaptation of the novel …

If you’re a self-proclaimed bookworm like me, then chances are you’ve probably fantasised about packing everything away, moving to a quaint seaside town, and starting up a cute little bookshop (don’t worry, NL, I’m not going anywhere!). Well, with Tiny Bookshop, that’s exactly the pitch. Developed by neoludic games, this is the epitome of ‘cosy’; a tranquil experience that demands …

As far as I’m concerned, 8BitDo’s Pro 3 is the ultimate controller. You may already know that it makes a model literally called the Ultimate controller, but it plays second fiddle to the new Pro 3 in some key ways. It’s highly customizable, allowing you to change the face buttons, joystick caps, and more. Let me explain: like most other …

Image: PJ O’Reilly / Nintendo Life We’ve been talking about 8BitDo a fair bit recently, as the Chinese peripheral maker has just made its large catalogue of controllers backwards compatible with Switch 2 via a firmware update, and they’ve also got a snazzy arcade controller for Switch, too. This review, though, I’m taking a look at the brand new 8BitDo …

In today’s launch-day review of the Framework Desktop with AMD Ryzen AI Max “Strix Halo” were a number of benchmarks comparing the mini/SFF PC to Framework Laptops, the Strix Halo powered HP ZBook Ultra G1a laptops, and similar devices. With this being a desktop after all, for those wondering how the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 compares in a desktop form …

Sony WH-1000XM6 specs Color options Black, Blue, Silver Audio SBC, AAC, LDAC, LC3Sony DSEE, 360 Audio Noise cancelation ANC, Transparency Connectivity Bluetooth 5.3, multi-device, Fast Pair, Swift Pair Battery life Up to 30 hours Ingress protection No IP rating You may have noticed that the Sony WH-1000XM6 set features a new-ish audio codec — LC3. It was included with Bluetooth …

Today the review embargo lifts on the much anticipated Framework Desktop computer powered by AMD Ryzen AI Max 300 Series “Strix Halo” SoCs. Aside from offering an enclosure to allow old Framework motherboards to be re-tasked as a makeshift desktop computer, the Framework Desktop is the company’s first dedicated desktop computer offering and it’s very impressive in building around the …