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Former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé has stepped down from Gamestop’s board of directors. Reggie had only joined the company last March, however, he is part of a group of eight directors planning to leave the Funko Pop retailer after its annual shareholders meeting in June. Kathy Vrabeck, formerly of Acticision, also plans to…
If there’s been one consistant thing that’s managed to ground us in this turbulent time, it’s Switch Pro rumours. Yep, every six months like clockwork, we get a brand new batch to tickle the pickle of Nintendo faithful. There’s been a whole bunch this time though, coming from various different news outlets. Such so that…
Sony is reportedly shutting down the PlayStation Store on the PS3, PSP, and Vita this summer, according to a report from The Gamer. The shops on the PSP and PS3 will shut their doors on July 2nd, while the Vita’s will be shuttered on August 27th. Customers will no longer be able to purchase digital…
Sega’s tumultuous history throughout the 90’s was made up of a lot of hardware firsts. Well, firsts that ended up working better on paper than they did in practice. One such instance was the hybrid console. While the Nintendo Switch is ruling the roost today, it certainly didn’t invent the concept. Though they arguably did…
A lot of people fail to differentiate between a something that’s a commercial failure, and one that doesn’t meet expectations. In the case of the latter, the product can still sell well, and even be profitable. However, it didn’t end up performing as well as the manufacturer had hoped. Failing to capture market share despite…
So, I’m old enough to remember a time before cell phones became ubiquitous. When they were mainly limited to a select few business users. It was the late 80’s, maybe early 90’s when my dad’s company bought him a car phone. He’s a civil engineer who frequently travelled to remote job sites, so this was…
In November 2007, Amazon put out their very first Kindle eReader. Its ludicrously chunky by modern standards. It also wasn’t it the first of its kind. However, the Kindle was the first to establish a convenient ecosystem surrounding eBooks. It was to digital reading what the iPod was to digital music. At the time, many…
Microsoft has finalized the deal to buyout Bethesda’s parent company ZeniMax Media for $7.5 billion USD. “This is the next step in building an industry-leading first party studios team, a commitment we have to our Xbox community,” Xbox head Phil Spencer said in a press release. “With the addition of the Bethesda creative teams, gamers…
AMD announced the newest member of its RDNA2 lineup of graphics cards today, finally bring the “mid-range” to Team Red aficionados. The 6700 XT will feature 40 compute units, or 2560 stream processors, running at 2424 MHz, boosting to 2581 MHz should thermals allow. This will give it a maximum theoretical performance of 12.4 TFLOPS….