Nintendo’s Mario Kart World Direct today was essentially a 15-minute showcase focused on the upcoming Switch 2 exclusive, set to launch on June 5, 2025. For the first time in the series, Mario Kart World features a vast, interconnected world where courses are linked by roads. Players can drive between tracks, especially in Grand Prix mode, where you navigate from one course to the next as part of the experience.
Shown off at Milan Design Week 2025 and limited to just 1,000 units worldwide, Audio-Technica’s Hotaru is a fancy, high-tech turntable that costs $9,999. What makes it special is its acrylic platter, which floats above the base using magnetic levitation to keep it away from vibrations, giving you clearer sound.
While fans patiently wait for a Deadpool & Wolverine sequel, Marvel Entertainment has just quietly dropped a new Fantastic Four First Steps trailer that hints at the team’s origin and teases the planet-devouring Galactus. It’s generating a lot of excitement for Marvel’s First Family, set to hit theaters on July 25, 2025.
Forget your smartphone or smartwatch and need to make a contactless payment? Well, there’s Alipay’s PL1, which lets you pay using your palm print. This device comes from Ant Group, an affiliate of Alibaba, and is part of Alipay’s push to expand biometric payment options beyond QR codes and facial recognition.
Yes, the Casio Comfy Calculator JT-200T is indeed a real device and not just a late April Fools’ Day joke. It’s basically a stylish, modern take on the classic desk calculator, released to celebrate Casio’s 60th anniversary of making these pocket number crunchers since their first model in 1965.
You heard it right—Kumori is the second character you can play as in Ninja Gaiden Ragebound, a 2D side-scrolling action game made by The Game Kitchen and put out by Dotemu. She’s a female ninja from the Black Spider Clan, and letting players use her is a big choice since it puts you in the shoes of someone from an enemy group.
The 2TB Samsung 990 EVO Plus internal PCIe SSD is one of the fastest one the market, and you can get one for $129.99 shipped, originally priced at $184.99. It delivers sequential read speeds up to 7,250 MB/s and write speeds up to 6,300 MB/s, with random read/write IOPS up to 1,000,000/1,350,000. Product page.
