The Elements of Gadgets and Gaming
Runescape pushed an update this week which removed male and female from the character creation screen, instead replacing them with “Body Type A” and “Body Type B”. This has conservative leaning gamers in an uproar, as they believe it to be more woke mind virus infecting the industry. Which it most certainly is. However, when…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock lately, you might have noticed that handheld gaming has become extremely popular. The Switch is now the third best selling video game system of all time. The Steam Deck meanwhile has garnered a loyal cult fanbase, with numerous clones popping up seemingly every other week. Yet if you…
It’s been about three years since I purchases an Xbox Series S. I think there was certainly a lot to like about Microsoft’s diminutive entry-level system. It provided a good level of performance for an accessible price, at a time when next-gen consoles were getting very pricey indeed. So how have I been enjoying my…
It’s a terrible day to be a blob. First your homeworld is destroyed, then you flee to some disgusting backwards planet, where a local scientist has captured you and your friends to run experiments on. How rude. The only solution is to escape, save your fellow blobs, then extract a little revenge by absorbing the…
Half of PS4 owners have not upgraded to the PlayStation 5. Games journalists are perplexed by this, as they are about a great many things. Why aren’t people getting excited to consume next product? Well, as cited by IGN, Mat Piscatella, Executive Director at Circana, noted the most popular games right now are all available…
Powerful demons are wreaking havoc across Tokyo! Who better to protect the populace than… the local theatre troop? Problem is they’re just as bad at fighting as they are at acting. Now it’s up to Seijuro Kamiyama to whip them into shape, somehow. Through the power of love, and some big mechs, maybe they can…
I’ve been dabbling with Linux for nearly two decades now. While I’ve been bearish about it in the past, the penguins have come a long way in the last few years. So much so that it’s become my primary operating system. There’s a lot of advantages here. Particularly its light weight nature and ability to…
Gaming in 2024 is just the pits. It seems like every day we’re bombarded with more negative news. Whether it’s layoffs, yet another broken release, low review scores, dead multiplayer titles, woke developers and journalists abusing gamers, predatory monetization, even more price hikes, mergers, frivolous lawsuits, the complete lack of customer service. The list just…
Sony is going to be releasing a PS5 Pro at some point this year, according to fresh rumours. Speaking to CNBC, Kantan Games CEO Serkan Toto said that “There seems to be a broad consensus in the game industry that Sony is indeed preparing a launch of a PS5 Pro in the second half of…
It’s been one heck of a wild week for Xbox. Fans got their jimmies thoroughly rustled following rumours that Microsoft is looking to make their games multiplatform. Yes, that includes previously exclusive titles like Hi-Fi Rush and even Starfield (or maybe not Starfield depending on whom you ask). This caused quite a number of the…