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Reviews Featuring ‘Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku’, Plus New Releases, Sales, and Good-Byes – TouchArcade
Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for September 6th, 2024. Well, this is the last one. You’ll see one more special from me next week with a few reviews that have specific embargo dates, but this is the final regular SwitchArcade Round-Up for TouchArcade by yours truly. We’ve been at this for…
WEP 982 III Precision Soldering Station Review: Putting the heat where you need it
Finding the best soldering iron or soldering station is subjective. I can tell you what I like, point you in the direction of a good choice, but ultimately it is how it feels in your hand that matters. I started soldering professionally with an Antex XS25. This simple soldering iron had no temperature control. but…
Anker Eufy E20 review: A robot vacuum that transforms to do more
Convenience has always been the big promise of robot vacuums. Don’t clean your house yourself — instead, push a button and have a little robot putter around your home, sucking up all the dirt and debris in its path. Indeed, they are convenient, but they haven’t fully replaced a manually operated cordless vacuum. Chances are,…
Glorious GMMK 3 Review: Customized mainstream gaming
Glorious is trying something new with its GMMK 3 gaming keyboard lineup — a custom keyboard builder that lets you build your ideal gaming keyboard, from the size, layout, and switch plate to the keycaps, top and bottom cases, and rotary knob color. It’s not cheap — far from it, in fact — but the…
‘The Monkey’ review: Osgood Perkins’ take on Stephen King is a hell of a good time
You might think you know Osgood Perkins, but The Monkey is about to prove you wrong. The horror helmer has built a reputation for atmospheric spookiness and psychological tension with twisted thrillers like Longlegs, The Blackcoat’s Daughter, and I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House. Yet his adaptation of a Stephen King…
Citizen Sleeper 2: The Kotaku Review
Bodies tear, break, grow, shrink, endure, decay. I occasionally think of myself as a sack of skin transporting around a pure, permanent, irreducible self protected from oblivion by its mortal shell but also transcending it. But as I get older, weaker, more tired, the act of self deception, for better and for worse, becomes harder…
‘Cactus Pears’ review: An assured debut feature that subverts queer tropes
Cactus Pears (Sabar Bonda), Rohan Parashuram Kanawade’s semi-autobiographical debut feature about a queer romance experienced amid mourning is the only movie from India competing at the Sundance Film Festival. The story of love and grief in a rural setting came to Kanawade while coping with his own father’s death, as he wondered how different processing…
ViewSonic VX1655-4K-OLED portable monitor review: 4K OLED goodness in a slim package
Over the years, desktop monitor users have taken 4K resolution for granted, and it is the high watermark for gaming. Typically, we see 4K panels in monitors ranging from 27 to 32 inches. But who’s to say that consumers in the market for the best portable monitors can’t enjoy the same high-resolution goodness afforded to…
Samsung Galaxy S25 review: More powerful, but more of the same
Over a year since it dipped into generative artificial intelligence, Samsung’s Galaxy S-series phones are now the vanguard for its gen-AI features. This year, we’re getting even deeper hooks into Google’s Gemini AI assistant and more built-in software tricks than ever before. At the same time, however, the Galaxy S25 arrives with marginal hardware upgrades…
Intel Iris Xe Graphics | A Review on Graphic Technology
Intel Iris Xe graphics technology integrated into some Intel processors. This graphic technology is integrated within Intel Core CPUs from the 11th generation. The Iris Xe Graphics is not a standalone graphic card but a graphics technology integrated into multiple processors across the generations. The Iris Xe Graphics is available in intel GPUs from the…