Nintendo has announced a Direct "Partner Showcase" presentation scheduled to air tonight, dedicated to Switch and Switch 2 games made by third-party developers.

That means we won't see any games made by Nintendo's internal team, so don't expect any Metroid Prime 4 news. However, the Partner Showcase could reveal more information about Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment, a Zelda spin-off being made by Koei Tecmo. There's also a chance of Hades II getting a release date, following the success of Supergiant Games' original mythological dungeon crawler.

There was speculation that Nintendo was preparing for its first Direct not focused on one game since launching the Switch 2 in June. Despite concerns over tsunami warnings for Japan, everything looks to be going full-speed ahead.

Australians can tune into the 25-minute Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase tonight (31 July 2025) at 11 PM AEST via the company's YouTube channel.

Not wanting to confine itself to action cameras or handheld creator gear, Insta360 announced that it's launching its first drone under the new "Antigravity" brand.

What it hopes will separate it from existing drone heavyweights like DJI is a dual-lens that captures 360-degree footage. "...users can fly without worrying about framing the perfect shot," Insta360's blog post claims.

"Everything is recorded in full, allowing creators to focus on the moment and shape their story afterward."

It's an interesting concept, recording and then finding the composition in editing. You'd expect the quality of the footage to be good enough to support cropping without too much distortion. Further details are limited, other than Insta360's promise that the Antigravity brand will show its first drone in August.

The UK has started rolling out online age verification as part of its bid to prevent children from accessing harmful content. But it's already faced a hurdle: users have already sidestepped the age verification process thanks to the latest Death Stranding game.

Sites and online platforms like Reddit and Discord now require users in the UK to verify their age. The process involves scanning a user's face via a phone camera or uploading a form of photo ID. Rather industrious folks tried scanning the face of Death Stranding 2's protagonist to see if it would pass the age check. Long story short, it did.

The quirky video game workaround is viewed as an example of the unreliability of age verification technology. Combine that with a surge in VPN popularity in the UK, and it's clear that people will try all manner of workarounds. With Australia set to implement similar age verification techniques, expect a similar scenario to play out locally.

Have you ever wished for a bigger laptop? Do the recent 18-inch models not do it for you? Well, look no further, because this laptop might be the biggest in the world. Kind of.

Late last year, online creator Alex Corea uploaded a video to No Bitrate, showing off a functional 77-inch laptop replete with 4-inch keys and gigantic ports. It's ridiculously huge.

Reporters from The Verge recently saw the laptop up close at Open Sauce, a STEM exhibition held in San Francisco, highlighting all sorts of weird and wonderful tech creations. Corea transformed an Alienware X16 gaming laptop into a behemoth by hooking it up to an LG C3 OLED TV, while making a chassis five times bigger than the original laptop.

He's no stranger to big PC peripherals, having also made a comically large keyboard and mouse in 2023. What the "world's biggest laptop" might lack in utility, it more than makes up for it in delightful novelty.

Designed to replace 1080p recording devices, the Elgato Game Capture 4K S is the streaming accessory brand's latest capture card for consoles and mobile devices.

Demonstrated by capturing footage of Donkey Kong Bananza, the Nintendo Switch 2's latest flagship game, Elgato's new capture card focuses on recording 4K footage at 60fps. Faster frame rates are reserved for lower resolutions; 1440p supports up to 144fps, while 1080p supports up to 240fps.

It's not Elgato's most powerful capture card, however. Unlike some of the brand's other 4K capture cards, the 4K S model only records HDR10 footage in 1080p at 60fps. That's reflected in the $279 local price, while the 4K Pro costs upwards of $400 at JB Hi-Fi.

Updated to include the confirmed Australian pricing.