The Elements of Gadgets and Gaming
Happy holiday season you yellow, no good keisters. It’s time again for the MMNTech GOTY awards, where we celebrate the best, and most mediocre, games of 2024. Compiling the list of biggest disappointments was actually quite a challenge this year. Not because there were no terrible games. Rather gamers have become conditioned now to just…
It’s fair to say that Nintendo hasn’t been garnering a lot of goodwill in the games community lately. While the rest of the industry crashes and burns, the House of Mario thought now would be a good time to go to war with their fans. Whether it’s trying to make emulation illegal, attacking game preservation,…
2024 has been a landmark year for gaming, but not in a good way. Nearly every big-budget AAA has been an abject failure, costing their studios and publishers millions in losses and leading to layoffs. We all know why this is, so there’s no use in talking about it here. Why don’t we look at…
Star Wars is not in a great place right now. Neither are its games. In the decade-plus that Disney has helmed the franchise, we’ve seen very few new releases, most of which have ranged from painfully average to outright slop. Are you bored of all this garbage? Star Wars has a rich Expanded Universe with…
Boomers are a mysterious lot. They like beige saloon cars, spending their kids inheritance, talking about how easy it is to get a job and buy a house (if you just pull up your damn socks and knock on doors!), and watching copious amounts of cable TV. One thing our senior citizen friends certainly don’t…
Things aren’t looking too good Ubisoft. The French gaming giant’s stock continues to tumble after big budget “AAAA” title Star Wars: Outlaws was poorly received by gamers. The situation has gotten so bad that at least one investor has called for the company to go private, while others are demanding founder and CEO Yves Guillemot…
After months of speculation, Sony has finally announced the PlayStation 5 Pro, and boy are gamers suffering from sticker shock. Sony threw a lot of technobabble at today’s unveiling, promising 67% more compute units than the base PS5, and 28% faster memory. They claim the console features 45% faster rendering than the base system. No…
Move over Mario, there’s a new mascot in town. Astro Bot released on PS5 this week to near universal praise. And it’s not hard to see why. It’s chock full of the kind of whimsical fun you don’t really see from non-Nintendo publishers. Which puts Sony at a critical crossroads regarding the future of PlayStation…
Sony announced today that live service Concord will be shut down only a week after release. The company also announced they will be offering full refunds to anyone who purchased it on PSN or Steam. “While many qualities of the experience resonated with players, we also recognize that other aspects of the game and our…
The face of the games industry has changed a lot since about 2008-ish. When gaming started to go mainstream, you had a lot of people flood into the industry who weren’t gamers. All of whom were either chasing the golden goose or looking to shift the culture away from its perceived dude-bro aesthetic. The latter…