The Elements of Gadgets and Gaming
2018 has brought us a lot of negative news from the gaming industry. Whether it be toxic developers, greedy publishers, the hyper-politicization of the medium, or the usual sloppy releases, it’s easy to forget the good. And man, when 2018 brought on the good, it brought on the good. Since I’ve mostly been playing older…
People have been talking about the next big video game crash for, oh… at least since I’ve been running this site. It seems gamers are eager engage in a little schadenfreude after all the idiotic stunts the industry has pulled over the years. The thing is, the crash might not be just over the horizon…
Epic Games announced they would be opening up a new storefront on PC to compete with the likes of Steam. I haven’t really been following it too closely, being busy with the holidays, but the response among the gaming community has certainly been interesting. Epic’s main selling point is a generous revenue sharing agreement with…
We don’t bother with bad games here at MMNTech Game of the Year Awards HQ. There are just way too many to chose from. Instead of bad, we go with the sad. The ones that left us feeling let down and empty inside. Like that Alanis Morissette song, playing at your grandma’s funeral, while Rian Johnson…
Nintendo has announced they will be officially ending the Creators Program for user generated video content at the end of December 2018. In a press release issued on their site, the company stated that they are “ending the Nintendo Creators Program (NCP) to make it easier for content creators to make and monetize videos that…
Fallout 76’s release has not gone as smoothly as anyone would have liked, which may be the understatement of the year. According to players, the game is a godawful mess. It’s perhaps the buggiest release Bethesda has put out so far, which is saying something for a studio with a long track record of buggy…
Microsoft is planning to release a bargain priced Xbox One model without an optical drive, according to reports. The new console will supposedly feature the same hardware as the already cost effective Xbox One S, all be it without the shiny coaster spinner, and will retail for around $200 US dollars. Hardware revisions targeting budget…
Nintendo recently won a $12.2 million lawsuit against a married couple who ran LoveROMs, a site for downloading vintage console games. Over the past year, the company has hit many ROM sites hard, with many opting to just shut down over fears of similar suits. The whole subject of ROMs and emulation is probably the…
Bethesda’s latest entry into the Fallout series has, no surprises, a few technical issues. Ones that allegedly will have a serious impact the game’s multiplayer, which is a big problem considering it’s an exclusively multiplayer game. According to a post on the official subreddit, Fallout 76 has no server checks to verify file integrity, and it…
Over the past two decades, China has become an economic power house thanks to its rising middle class. For western companies, this has meant a fresh, new, and lucrative, market for mass media entertainment. Video games are of course no exception, and it seems that catering to the Chinese is having a profound impact on…