2026 is set to open with the breathtaking Wolf supermoon this weekend, chased closely by a planetary parade and a good chance of viewing the Andromeda galaxy in February.
Skywatchers, prepare for the first full moon of the year that's set to reach peak illumination this Saturday (January 3) at 5:03 a.m. EST. This particular lunation is 
LG is showing off its new Gallery TV, a "lifestyle screen" that doubles as a showpiece for artwork similar to Samsung's The Frame and a spattering of other options. Announced ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) next week, LG says its Gallery TV will come in both 55-inch and 65-inch size options, both with mini LED backlighting and 
Monster Hunter Wilds started its life as one of the most anticipated titles of 2025. While the game benefited from a strong launch, various performance and visual issues led to the game seeing a sharp decline in sales. With the recent Title Update 4 finally marking a point of stability for Wilds, it appears as though Capcom are gearing up to release the game onto the Nintendo Switch 2.
As discovered by dataminers (and shared to the MonsterHunterLeaks subreddit), the recent title update 4 for Monster Hunter Wilds appears to include references to the Nintendo Switch 2, indicating that Capcom might be working on a Nintendo version of the game.
As mentioned, Monster Hunter Wilds suffered from plenty of performance issues across the board at launch, including on high-end PC hardware, and so releasing a Switch 2 version alongside all the others would have certainly been inadvisable.
That said, with the publisher continuing to optimise the experience (alongside their increased knowledge of Switch 2 development thanks to other Capcom projects), a Switch 2 version could at some point be a reality.
While the series initially started on the PS2, Monster Hunter has had a strong presence on Nintendo platforms over the years, with the OG Switch receiving its own unique entry in the form of MH Rise (though it did eventually come to all other systems).
Given their continued work on optimising the game, here’s to hoping that we’ll get another major performance patch some time in 2026 – likely around the same time that the Switch 2 version is announced/released.
KitGuru says: What do you think of title update 4? Has it fixed most of the performance issues for you? Do you have high hopes for the Switch 2 version? Let us know down below.
The post Monster Hunter Wilds update hints at upcoming Switch 2 release first appeared on KitGuru.More than a decade on from its predecessor’s release, Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time launched earlier this year to near immediate success – selling half a million copies in its first few days. In the months since, the game has continued to grow both in terms of content and player counts, with the team now revealing that Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time has officially sold over 1.5 million copies.
Making the announcement via Twitter, the CEO of LEVEL5 ‘Akihiro Hino’ confirmed that Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time has officially sold over 1.5 million copies since its launch back in May, writing (via translation):
“To all the users who purchased it, thank you so much! We will continue to create engaging, high-quality software, so we look forward to your continued support!”
As mentioned, this announcement arrives just days following the game’s biggest update yet, with patch 2.0 introducing a whole new open-world rogue-like mode alongside an additional region; quality-of-life improvements; weapons; mounts and much more.
Given that a similar rogue-like mode was added to Donkey Kong Bananza via a paid DLC, it is encouraging to see other developers offer substantial content updates for free – all the while being rewarded for it with increased sales. It will be interesting to see what else is planned for the future of Fantasy Life i in 2026 and beyond.
KitGuru says: Are you one of the 1.5 million? Have you checked out the new rogue-like mode? What do you think? Let us know down below.
The post Free rogue-like mode update helps push ‘Fantasy Life i’ past 1.5 million sales first appeared on KitGuru.For Day 30 of the KitGuru Advent Calendar, we have teamed up with Seagate to give TWO winners today a major storage upgrade. One winner today will get a Firecuda 530R 1TB SSD and a second winner will get an 8TB Seagate Game Drive Hub for Xbox!
While the Game Drive Hub for Xbox is an officially licensed Xbox product, it can also be used with PCs via a USB connection. You'll have a massive 8TB of storage to fill up, making it ideal for both games and media storage. The Firecuda 530R SSD on the other hand is intended for PCs, with PCIe Gen 4 NVMe compatibility, an M.2 form factor and read/write speeds up to 7400MB/s and 6900MB/s respectively.
To enter this giveaway, all you have to do is head over to our competition announcement post on Facebook, HERE. In the comments, leave an answer to the following question – How much storage have you already got?
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This competition is in the UK, as well as Benelux and Nordic regions.
The winner will be picked randomly shortly after 11AM GMT December 30th, and a new competition will be announced for Day 30. The chosen winner has 48 hours to respond, if we do not hear from them, a new winner will be picked.
Terms and Conditions: This competition is open UK, as well as Benelux and Nordic regions, starting at 11AM GMT on December 30th and ending at 10:59AM GMT on December 31st. Due to the busy Christmas season, prize deliveries could take longer than usual, and some prizes may not ship until January. In compliance with GDPR, we will not collect or store any personal information as part of this competition. Once the winner has been contacted and their prize received, personal details will be deleted from our email servers. Your details will not be shared, we respect your privacy.
KitGuru Says: Good luck to all who enter, we'll be back tomorrow morning to announce a winner and turn the calendar over to Day 31!
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GOG has just been acquired by its original co-founder, Michał Kiciński, and in an industry where acquisitions usually signal disruption, consolidation, or slow erosion of consumer-friendly policies, the most notable thing about this one is just how little is expected to change about the GOG user experience. To be clear, that's not a complaint; 
Samsung has been working to add apps and experiences that it hopes will win over users, including a partnership with Microsoft to bring Copilot AI to its TV sets. Now, the company is partnering with Google to integrate Google Photos into its Tizen OS as well, which should make it easier than ever to revisit special moments with friends and 
Dell 16 Plus 2-In-1: $1,449 As Configured (On Sale For $1,199) Intel's latest mobile platform and a large 16-inch display that rotates a full 360-degrees make the Dell 16 Plus an interesting 2-in-1 with powerful compute resources under its hood. Vibrant Mini-LED display Flexible 2-in-1 design Reliable performance Sturdy build and solid chassis... 
Check out this memory kit from Nemix: 4096 TB of DDR5-6400 memory across sixteen 256GB sticks. The voltage is JEDEC-standard 1.1v, and the registered RAM supports multi-byte ECC, too. It's only $76,999, which comes out to an eye-watering $18.80 per gigabyte, or $4,812 per module.
Nevermind that there currently aren't any systems with 16-channel 
2.3 million user records from the WIRED database have leaked and the hackers who did it claim that millions of other records from other Condé Nast-owned publications (like The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and more) will also be released soon. Analysis of the leak from Infostealers seems to verify that the records are legitimate and worse yet, 
For multiple generations, Samsung has used a mix of Qualcomm Snapdragon and its own Exynos SoCs in its Galaxy devices, depending on the region or price/performance target, but rumors are swirling that suggest Samsung plans to shift completely to in-house silicon by 2028.
Samsung keeps adding in-house silicon blocks. Makes it even harder 
Ayaneo Pocket Vert is here, and if you hop on the bandwagon soon enough, you can get it for as low as $269 USD for the 8GB RAM + 128GB storage configuration, or $349 for the top-end 12GB RAM + 256GB storage config (or $369 if you want it in red). The vertical retro handheld market has been heating up in the past few years, but the Pocket Vert Asus ROG is preparing for a high-impact presence at CES 2026, with teasers suggesting it will introduce its own RGB-stripe OLED monitors designed with improved text clarity. Alongside these displays, Asus is set to refresh its AM5 motherboard lineup with a new “Neo” series.
The most significant ROG display teaser centres on “zero fringing” technology. The language aligns perfectly with recent announcements from LG Display, which recently unveiled a 27-inch 4K OLED panel featuring an RGB stripe subpixel layout that promises to solve that same problem. Unlike current WOLED or QD-OLED panels, a standard RGB stripe matches how Windows and macOS render fonts, virtually eliminating the colour bleeding and blurring that have plagued OLED productivity. The upcoming Asus monitor is expected to utilise this exact panel technology. As such, one can expect 4K resolution, a 240 Hz refresh rate, and a dual mode with an alternative 1080p at 480 Hz preset.
Another teaser also shows Asus is also refreshing its motherboard stack with the “Neo” branding, covering ROG Strix, ROG Crosshair, TUF Gaming, and ProArt series. These woin't feature entirely new chipsets but rather a feature refresh of the X870E and B850 platforms. It's unclear what these new features are, but based on past mid-cycle motherboard refreshes, we assume these motherboards will bring improved connectivity, CPU support, and memory compatibility.
KitGuru says: Of the two products teased, which one are you the most interested in?
The post Asus gears up for CES 2026 with new ROG OLEDs and “Neo” series motherboards first appeared on KitGuru.First released back in 2021 for PlayStation and PC, Guilty Gear Strive is the latest entry in the long-running and much loved 2.5D fighting series from Arc System Works. While the studio continues to work on the upcoming Marvel Tokon, Strive is still seeing plenty of support – with the previously-announced 2.0 update now being officially detailed.
Releasing a blogpost discussing the game’s next major update, Arc System Works producer Ken Miyauchi revealed just how transformative patch 2.0 should be, writing:
“With Version 2.0 and beyond, our goal is not simply to adjust characters or add new content, but to prepare updates that offer a refreshed overall experience—one that feels engaging, almost like picking up a new game.”
2.0 specifically is being labelled as “a milestone: an opportunity to review and refine what we have built so far, and to take the next step forward for Guilty Gear -Strive-.”
Even so, the update looks to be pretty substantial, with Arc confirming that the launch of 2.0 will arrive alongside a new playable character – with many other pre-existing characters said to be seeing “changes that go beyond standard tuning, including potential reworks.”
Finally, the team offered a few specifics on some characters which are set to receive changes, including new moves for Sol Badguy, Ky Kiske, Nagoriyuki, and Leo Whitefang.
Guilty Gear Strive is easily one of Arc System Works’ most successful titles, with the game having sold over 3.5 million copies so far. With update 2.0 scheduled to arrive some time next year, it will be interesting to see just how long the game winds up receiving updates on this level – and whether they will officially move on once Tokon releases. The full blogpost can be found HERE.
KitGuru says: What do you think of Guilty Gear Strive? Are you looking forward to the 2.0 update? Let us know down below.
The post Guilty Gear Strive update 2.0 officially detailed first appeared on KitGuru.HKC has announced its presence for CES 2026, bringing a suite of world-first display technologies under its various sub-brands. The company is set to challenge the current OLED dominance with its new “RGB MiniLED” technology and push the boundaries of esports performance with a monitor capable of a staggering 1,080 Hz refresh rate.
In this lineup, HKC is highlighting the HKC M10 Ultra, which the company touts as the world's first monitor to feature RGB MiniLED backlighting. Unlike traditional MiniLED displays that use white LEDs filtered through a layer of quantum dots or colour filters, RGB MiniLED uses separate red, green, and blue diodes at the backlight level. This enables what HKC calls “true light-and-colour co-control”. The M10 Ultra features a 32-inch 4K panel with 1,596 physical dimming zones, which translates to 4,788 individual RGB colour control zones. Specifications are aimed at professional creators and high-end gamers, boasting 1,600 nits of peak brightness and near-total coverage of various colour gamuts: 99.9% DCI-P3, 99.9% Adobe RGB, and 98% BT.2020. It also supports a dual-mode refresh rate, switching between 4K at 165 Hz and FHD at 330 Hz.
For the competitive esports market, HKC's sub-brand AntGamer is set to steal the headlines with the ANT275PQ Max. After announcing the 750 Hz display earlier this year, the new model is being introduced as the world's highest refresh-rate QHD LCD. While it runs natively at 1440p, it features an “AI-powered” mode that allows it to reach 1,080 Hz at 1080p. To support this level of throughput, the monitor is expected to use the full DisplayPort 2.1 UHBR20 standard.
The lineup also includes the HKC M9 Pro, described as the world's first 5K AI esports monitor, which pairs a 5K resolution with 2,304 dimming zones and an 180 Hz refresh rate. Meanwhile, the Koorui brand will cater to the simulation and racing crowd with the S4941XO, a 49-inch OLED ultrawide offering a 5120 x 1440 resolution at 240 Hz.
KitGuru says: HKC is clearly not content with being a behind-the-scenes panel supplier. The M10 Ultra's RGB MiniLED tech is a fascinating technical pivot that could offer OLED-level contrast without the burn-in concerns. At the same time, the 1,080 Hz AntGamer display is a clear statement in the ultra-competitive FPS market.
The post HKC to showcase world’s first 1080Hz monitor at CES first appeared on KitGuru.One of Nintendo’s main strategies for the Switch 2 so far has focused on its Nintendo Switch 2 Edition upgrades – which are essentially ports of Switch 1 titles with a resolution and framerate boost alongside a couple hours worth of additional content. Following the likes of Breath of the Wild; Kirby and the Forgotten Land; Mario Party Jamboree and others, it appears as though Pikmin 3 Deluxe is the next game to receive a Switch 2 Edition.
As discovered by the publication Gematsu, the Pan European Game Information (PEGI) ratings board have posted a listing for Pikmin 3 Deluxe coming to the Nintendo Switch 2.
For context, Pikmin 3 Deluxe was released back in 2020 for the Nintendo Switch. That said, the game’s non-deluxe version originally launched well over a decade ago in 2013 for the Wii U.
This will mark the second Switch 2 Edition of what was ostensibly a Wii U title, with the aforementioned Breath of the Wild being a Switch 1 launch title as well as the Wii U’s swansong.
Given that it has yet to be officially announced, no details have been shared. That said, expect the upgrade to cost you around $20 while offering higher resolutions and potentially smoother framerates. Unfortunately, many of Nintendo’s Switch 2 editions have so far been rather underwhelming, and so it will be interesting to see what exactly is planned for Pikmin 3 Deluxe.
KitGuru says: What do you think of Nintendo’s Switch 2 Editions so far? Have they been worth it? Are you surprised to see Pikmin 3 getting upgraded before 4? Let us know down below.
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