The Elements of Gadgets and Gaming
It’s been a long time since we’ve had free online multiplayer on consoles. Nintendo was the final hold out, officially moving to a premium service back in 2018. However, there’s a rather intriguing rumour going around that Microsoft, the company that invented paid online multiplayer, might actually be looking to do away with it. Could…
Halo Infinite is not a pretty game. At least not by next gen standards, with all their fancy ray tracing and more polys than you can shake a stick at. The game looks, kind of gross to be honest. Even Digital Foundry questioned why they had chosen to show that particular part of the world…
As someone who’s primarily a PC gamer, the whole concept of backwards compatibility just seems bizarre to me. I have games over 20 years old that will still contently run on a modern PC. Sure, not everything works perfectly. Sometimes you need a tweak or an emulator in the case of DOS titles, but they…
I didn’t really intend on talking about the Xbox Games Showcase. There’s certainly a few cool games here of note. Fable of course being the big one. Of course Forza looks great as always, and I have high hopes for Avowed as well. Then there’s Halo Infinite. Oh boy. If you’re showing off the flagship…
Ouya, Ouya, Ouya, schika schikaaaaaa. The year was 2012, Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” was topping the Billboard charts, preppers were eagerly awaiting the end of the world (that got delayed 8 years), and a little micro-console was causing a big splash in the video gaming landscape, only to end up as yet another…
So we’re now well into the hype phase going into a new console generation, and to be honest, I’m not seeing the excitement this time around. Either from myself or the gaming community at large. I think most people have resigned to the fact that consoles will be incremental upgrades from now on, rather than…