The Elements of Gadgets and Gaming
The Halloween season is upon us again. Which means Treehouse of Horror is back on The Simpsons. It’s one of the few aspects of the show that remained consistently not terrible during the modern run. But instead of the new stuff, we’re of course going to dive into the classics and pick out ten of…
It’s fair to say that Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity is probably the most anticipated Switch game this Fall. Who doesn’t want more Zelda? Well, a demo dropped this week, so we finally have a taste of what to expect come late November. Really, there’s a lot to love here for both Zelda fans and…
AMD has finally taken the curtains off their upcoming RDNA2 series GPUs, which for the first time in ages, are poised to be a serious threat against Nvidia. Their new flagship card, dubbed the RX 6900 XT, features a total of 80 compute units running at a base clock speed of 2015 MHz, and will…
Whenever you go to buy a PC game, there’s almost always a list of system requirements on the store page. These are typically broken down into the minimum and recommended specs your computer should have in order to run it. What do these really mean though? The short answer to that is nobody really knows,…
Whenever games journalists review a game, it’s commonplace to tack a score on the end. The traditional ten point scale gives readers a measure of quality in an easy to digest format. Yet, at the same time, those scores are utterly meaningless and it’s about time we got rid of them. I got to thinking…
Streamers should be paying developers to feature their content, according to Google Stadia’s creative director Alan Hutchinson. “Streamers worried about getting their content pulled because they used music they didn’t pay for should be more worried that by the fact that they’ve played games they didn’t pay for as well,” Hutchinson said in a tweet…
PlayStation has banned chat banter that is critical of the People’s Republic of China, in a terms of service update which specifically targets the Hong Kong market. The update to the Hong Kong region terms, which was published this month, includes the following under the Community Code of Conduct section: “For users with China Mainland…
Another week and yet another skeevy games company slipping in undesirable “features” a month post-launch. This time we have 2K games adding unskippable advertisements into NBA 2K21. The game now forces players to watch something called “MyTEAM Season 2, Episode 7” prior to each match. Which amounts to little more than a 30 second commercial…
AMD is issuing guidelines to retailers in order to prevent scalping of their new Ryzen 5000 CPUs and RX 6000 GPUs, according to a report obtained by RedGamingTech. According to the document, the company is telling shops that “some purchasers may initially try to buy large quantities of our new graphics and processors cards and…
AMD’s new Zen 3 processors are on their way in just a few short weeks. While we don’t have any official benchmarks, early leaks indicate that these are going to be some mighty powerful CPUs, regardless of whether you’re gaming or doing productivity. They also come with a bit of a price hike over previous…