AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE review (Acer Nitro)

The AMD RX 9070 GRE is probably the most 2026 graphics card any GPU company could release this year. With the possible exception of Nvidia digging down the back of the sofa again and releasing another RTX 3060. The RX 9070 GRE was previously a China-exclusive card and represents a dumbing down of the Navi…

Asus Reveals ROG Xbox Ally X20 With OLED Screen, Upgraded Joysticks, And Transparent Shell

Asus Republic of Gamers (ROG, lol) has announced the ROG Xbox Ally X20, a new version of the ROG Xbox Ally X that launched last year, featuring a larger now-OLED screen, tunneling magnetoresistance joysticks, and a transparent shell. It will still feature the same AMD Ryzen AI Z2 extreme processor that makes last year’s ROG…

GameStop Is The Latest Company Planning To Saddle Us With AI Garbage

GameStop shoppers, beware. It sounds like the retailer is on the cusp of inserting some sort of consumer-facing AI garbage into its shopping experience. This comes from the company’s annual report, published a little over a week ago. It’s traditional in annual reports for companies to spend roughly half of the total page count outlining…

AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE review

Verdict The AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE is a great choice if you’re seeking a GPU with significantly more grunt than an RTX 5060 Ti or RX 9060 XT but don’t have the budget for a full fat RX 9070 or an RTX 5070. It slots in around $75-$100 cheaper than either of those cards…

Poll: So, Will You Be Getting Final Fantasy VII Rebirth For Switch 2?

Image: Square Enix Square Enix has already shown plenty of support for the Switch 2 since it arrived on the scene last June, and this week it delivers its biggest game yet – Final Fantasy VII Rebirth! After escaping Midgar, the second game sees Cloud and the rest of his friends journey across expansive new…

New PS5 Accessories Coming in 2026, Prices Confirmed

PlayStation has confirmed a batch of new accessories are coming out in 2026. The accessories include a new fight stick, a monitor, and more. PlayStation has confirmed when three big accessories are coming out In a new PlayStation Blog post, the company revealed the release dates of several products it had previously revealed. First up,…

Sega’s Streets Of Rage Film Adaptation Will Be Written By The Duo Behind The Sonic The Hedgehog Movies

We learned that Sega’s long-running beat ’em up series, Streets of Rage, was getting the film-adaptation treatment back in 2022 via Lionsgate, around the same time Paramount Pictures acquired the movie franchise rights to Sonic the Hedgehog. Now, three movies later (with a fourth in production), Lionsgate has tapped Pat Casey and Josh Miller, the…

Star Wars Mandalorian And Grogu Suffers 69% Box Office Collapse

What’s next for Star Wars after Grogu interest plummets? Can a Streets of Rage movie be as funny as Sonic’s live-action debut? Will a Baldur’s Gate 2 remake give the classic CRPG a Baldur’s Gate 3–style makeover? It’s a belated edition of Kotaku Checkpoint for June 1, 2026, where we are getting prepared like everyone else…

Zack Snyder’s Escape from New York remake is happening

Two decades after remaking George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, Zack Snyder is tackling another director’s seminal work. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Snyder is attached to write and direct a reimagining of John Carpenter’s Escape from New York, the 1981 action movie that introduced the world to Snake Plissken. Unlike Snyder’s recent straight-to-streaming…

Former World of Warcraft Lead Combat Designer has joined Riot’s League of Legends MMO

News on Riot’s upcoming League of Legends MMO has been thin on the ground, but things are definitely moving behind the scenes at the company, as former Lead Combat Designer for World of Warcraft Brian ‘Swolinka’ Holinka has joined up to become the Principal Game Designer of the project. It’s been over five years since…