When placed alongside Hellblade, Destiny 2 or Forza Motorsport 7, Star Fox 2’s basic polygon graphics – intended for a ’90s audience, lest we forget – seem laughably crude. The Super FX chip featured prominently in the advertising for the original Star Fox. Unfriendly missiles can be intercepted mid-flight before hitting Corneria, and you have to deal with the unwanted attentions of the sinister Star Wolf team, which would later return in Star Fox 64 and Star Fox Zero. Star Fox 2 allows you to a

The SNES Classic Edition (or SNES Mini, if you prefer) launches this week after months of hype and expectation, and we dearly hope you’re reading this as one of the lucky few who actually managed to secure a pre-order, thereby avoiding the agonising process of having to sift through countless eBay listings looking for the one unit which won’t require you to remortgage the house or sell a kidney. Hypothetically speaking, let’s say you are one of those people and you’re wondering which game you sh

If you plan to buy either of the brand new phones from Apple, you should check out the plans on Sky Mobile. Deals start at only £32 a month on Sky Mobile for the new iPhone 8, plus there are lots of great benefits that no other UK network offers. Sky Mobile is also the only UK network to offer data that rolls over month after month. In fact, Sky Mobile lets your unused data pile up over time and you can use it for up to three years. The last great benefit of Sky Mobile is it lets you choose the

CCleaner has long been one of the web’s most popular PC cleanup tools, but after it was acquired by Avast and suffered a serious malware attack, many people have begun seeking alternatives. With that in mind, we’ve put a host of PC cleanup tools to the test and curated our own list of the best alternatives to CCleaner. BleachBit is a very simple CCleaner alternative, but that works to its advantage. The Disk Cleanup tool can be used to free up space, while the Tracks Erase and Temporary Files Cl

Apple has confirmed that a fix is on the way for the reports that are currently circulating on various forums that the iPhone 8 makes a crackling sound for some users during phone calls. If you’d rushed out to be one of the first to get your hands on Apple’s new flagship, and found that your handset crackles, it would be a pretty disappointing turn of events. But luckily for those affected users, it looks like the fix is a relatively simple one. In a statement issued to The Verge Apple said, “We

Some folks using Windows 8.1 have been hit by a nasty bug which apparently prevents them from logging on to their PC using a Microsoft account. The bug was reportedly caused by a recent Microsoft OS update – KB4038792 to be precise, the monthly security rollup of patches for September – and the software giant has acknowledged the problem. The Microsoft employee dealing with user queries on the support forum stated: “Our engineers are still in the process of creating a bug fix for the ‘Can’t conn

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Sony has stuck with the same design language on its phones for a long time now, but it sounds like the company is finally going to change things up, with a company executive saying as much. Speaking to The Indian Express, Sony India’s managing director Kenichiro Hibi said that “we have deployed an OmniBalance design as long as the X series continues to be available in the market. Bezel-free looks are the new “in” thing and if Sony wants to keep pace with rivals it would make sense to adopt a sim

The iPhone X isn’t hitting stores until November 3, but even then it might only be available in very limited numbers. Speaking to Nikkei Asian Review, two “executives working for iPhone suppliers” said that only tens of thousands of iPhone X units were being produced each day, and this was down to difficulties in building usable 3D sensor parts. A week ago we heard that iPhone X mass production wouldn’t begin until mid-October, and prior to that another analyst had claimed that around 40 million

Following last week’s leak of the Surface Pro LTE specs, Microsoft has revealed that this fresh spin on the hybrid, which adds cellular connectivity, will go on sale December 1. Apparently the Surface Pro with LTE will only be available with a Core i5 processor, and there’ll be no Core i7 model for those who want to push the performance boat out further – at least not initially. Two’s companyAll this is in line with the aforementioned leak from online retailer Misco, which showed two different m

Firms that made the cut include Apple, Fitbit, Samsung, Johnson & Johnson, Pear Therapeutics, Phosphorus, Alphabet’s Verily, Roche and Tidepool. If it proves successful, though, that means innovative health-focused apps could start appearing in the US sooner than they have so far. Europe has similar restrictions, but the difference is that companies like Tüv Süd handle much of the medical certification rather than governments. It became the first fertility app to earn Tüv Süd certification, prov

Atari made headlines today when it announced the first real details about the Ataribox, its first home console in over two decades. The idea, Atari stated in a press release, is to create a console that goes beyond gaming. Atari has yet to launch its IndieGoGo crowdfunding campaign for the Ataribox, and we’re at least six months away from the hardware’s Spring 2018 launch window. Because, look, if Atari doesn’t do that, the Ataribox is doomed to fail. What makes Atari think the Ataribox is going

The character limit has been a major sticking point for Twitter and its users, but today, that changes. Twitter has announced that it’s running a small test in which the character limit of tweets will expand from 140 to 280. That’s double the characters users have up until now been afforded to play with. Most tweets in Japanese are 15 characters long, Twitter said, while in English, tweets average 34 characters. But if longer tweets don’t do it, Twitter may have to consider the change everyone r

In a new blog post , BMW just reminded us beyond all doubt that we’re living in the future by announcing a gigantic wireless charging pad for its electric cars. If you’ve got a BMW to go along with it, you can pick it up sometime in 2018. Specifically, you’ll need to have a BMW 530e iPerformance as it’s the only car that’ll support it at first. After that, BMW will extend support for other iPerformance models that support the optional wireless charging kit, such as the 330e, the 740e, and the X5

The continued success of Nintendo’s hybrid console-and-handheld Switch device has taken almost everyone by surprise. Speaking with Bloomberg (via IGN ), House effectively killed any hopes that Sony might release a new version of its portable PlayStation Vita gaming device to compete with the Nintendo Switch. Nintendo Switch in handheld modeThe Switch’s popularity seems to counter that, you might say, but House doesn’t think so. “The Nintendo device is a hybrid device and that’s a different appro

Update: And just like that, the Apple TV 4K listing appears to have been pulled. Today, an Apple TV 4K listing appeared on Amazon, marking the first time the online retailer has shown an Apple set-top box in two years. We only spotted an Apple TV 4K listing on Amazon US; no such listing appeared on Amazon UK. Amazon, as you probably know, has its own TV hardware, namely the Amazon Fire TV and Amazon Fire TV Stick . The Apple TV 4K went on sale this past Friday with a price of $179 / £179 / AU$24

AMD has confirmed that its new Radeon RX Vega graphics cards won’t support any more than two cards in a multi-GPU (previously known as CrossFire) configuration, ruling out the possibility of three- or four-way setups when it comes to gaming. You will, however, still be able to link up the power of three or four cards when it comes to general computing usage. This move brings AMD in line with Nvidia, which also only officially supports two-way SLI with its most recent Pascal-based (10-series) gra

It’s Friday afternoon, and everyone’s trying to make an early getaway from work and get out of the city, which means we’re now in a stop-start hell of a traffic jam. Black magicThat’s because the new 2018 A8 comes equipped with technology which Audi calls Traffic Jam Pilot, and, following a change in German road traffic laws, it’s perfectly legal too. Our Audi engineer, Simon Ulbrich, was so proud of the system that once the traffic began to clear he asked if we wanted to find another jam. The A

Although the new iPhone X is physically smaller in dimensions than the iPhone Plus, it has a larger screen. And other than the lack of Touch ID, the iPhone X is arguably a superior product than the iPhone 8 Plus. Clearly, the iPhone X is a better phone that the iPhone 8 Plus but let’s shift gear to iPhone 8 vs the iPhone 8 Plus. For comparison, the iPhone X weighs 174 grams and the iPhone 8 weighs 148 grams (the iPhone 7 was 138 grams.) Either save yourself a few dollars and go for the iPhone 8

Mozilla has launched the beta and developer versions of Firefox Quantum – the latest edition of the web browser, which comes with a new engine that uses multi-core processing to optimize speed. Quantum, also known as Firefox 57, is a serious step up from the previous version, and Mozilla claims you’ll notice the difference immediately when browsing your favorite sites. Firefox Quantum also prioritizes the tab you’re currently using, so it downloads and runs before those in the background, cuttin