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Switch 2: How many workers hours does it cost in your country?

June 5, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Today is the Nintendo Switch 2-Day sale as the console is now available. Checking Amazon UK, I can see it’s the #1 Best Seller in “Plug & Play Games Consoles” and costs £395.99.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: infographics, nintendo, stats, switch

PowerA celebrates Pac-Man’s 45th birthday with a Bandai Namco license

March 7, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Toru Iwatani’s Puck Man turns 45 this year, and along the way, he was renamed Pac-Man. The original name comes from the Japanese phrase paku paku taberu, which relates to greedily wolfing something down.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: Bandai Namco, switch, xbox

What if… games consoles had to render themselves?

January 26, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In focus, today is a project from ElectronicsHub titled Self-aware and wonders what consoles would look like if they had to render themselves.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: playstation, PlayStation 3, playstation 4, playstation 5, switch, wii, wii u, Xbox 360, xbox one, xbox series x

Mario Shells make clever Nintendo Switch cartridge holders

October 2, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The blue shell will hold up to 10 Switch games. The bottom is flat, so you can just put the cartridge collection down wherever you want, and the lid shell comes off.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: 3d printers, Etsy, mario bros, nintendo switch, switch

Megaton Musashi: Horrible death from the sky never looked so good

August 9, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The untold truth is … the earth has already been destroyed and 99.9% of the human race has been wiped out.

Filed Under: Anime, Console Tagged With: nintendo switch, playstation 4, switch, trailers

Are these Nintendo Switch Pro designs really that bonkers?

June 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

What if the Nintendo Switch Pro comes about as a mashup between the Switch and a classic console or game?

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: concept art, nintendo, switch

Watch the console battle unfold in this line graph race

September 16, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Watch the consoles battle each other for the top slot.

Filed Under: Console Tagged With: microsoft, nintendo, playstation, switch, xbox

Lord of the Rings: Adventure Card Game gets a trailer ahead of next week’s release

August 19, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A Lord of the Rings computer card game that blends typical deck-building battles with a storyline and even allows you to play with a friend.

Filed Under: Console, PC Tagged With: asmodee digital, card games, fantasy flight games, lord of the rings, playstation 4, Steam, switch, xbox one

Settlers of Catan come to the Switch

June 20, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Asmodee continues their digital push, making the most of their highest profile games and have brought Settlers of Catan (aka CATAN) to Nintendo’s popular Switch.

Filed Under: Console Tagged With: Asmodee, asmodee digital, nintendo, Settlers of Catan, switch

A sneak peek at Nintendo’s Breath of the Wild sequel

June 12, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Nintendo has a lot to live up to for the sequel. Do you think they’ll manage?

Filed Under: Console Tagged With: e3, nintendo, switch, zelda

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