The Elements of Gadgets and Gaming
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….
So we’ve talked a lot over the past few years about this huge cultural shift happening in the American entertainment industry. More of a culture war as many folks, including myself, have defined it. There’s roughly two factions out there battling it out over the future of popular media. One side wishes to redefine it…
It’s been a pretty busy week in gaming news. Unfortunately, I haven’t had much time to tackle all these stories individually, and there’s certainly a lot of big ones to cover. Here’s all the big things that happened in gaming this week. Pokemon Company releases remakes of Diamond and Pearl, teases open world game The…
So Nintendo finally had their first full fat Direct since… crikey, 2019? Has it really been that long? In fairness, they don’t really market their games in the same way that Sony or Microsoft do. No pomp and circumstance here. Big releases tend to get dropped out of nowhere, while their presentations tend to focus…
The iPod may possibly be Apple’s greatest product of all time. It perfectly embodied their philosophy of taking something that already exists, and refining it down into an artform. Minimalistic, easy to use, yet surprisingly powerful. Of course personal stereos, and indeed MP3 players, had been around a while by the time the first iPod…
CD Projekt Red keeps proving to be the gift that keeps on giving. The company’s hard fall from grace has been well documented following the rather disastrous release of Cyberpunk 2077. A game which ran poorly on 8th gen consoles despite promises to the contrary, which angered fans and and provoked investigation by the Polish…
I was browsing Newegg the other day, as ya do. Listed under their “Hot Deals” section was an AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT. A mid-range video card from 2019 that normally retails for about $500 Canadian kopeks, is now selling for an absolutely butt puckering $1,345. At nearly triple its MSRP, this makes it as…