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Nvidia has announced the RTX 3060, which they’re billing as a successor to one of their best selling video cards ever, the legendary GTX 1060. We don’t know much about the exact specs yet. Only that it will feature 13 TFLOPs of shader performance. This should make it just a hair slower than the 3060…
Sony is beginning to wind down availability of the PS4 in Japan by discontinuing all but one model. Only the PS4 Slim will remain available for sale, while all other models have been discontinued as of January 5th of this year. Despite being a stellar success globally, the console has not fared as well in…
The PlayStation brand is not doing so hot in it’s native Japan, and that has analysts worried. According to sales data compiled by Famitsu, the PS5 only sold 240,000 units during its first six weeks on the marker. The worst launch of any PlayStation console in the region. Ace Economic Research Institute analyst Hideki Yasuda…
Nintendo has de-listed 250 games from the North American DSiWare shop, without warning customers first. Games that received the axe include Shantae: Risky’s Revenge, Zenonia, Mr. Driller, and Dr. Mario Express. Several games seem to have been removed from the Japanese eShop as well, though it appears that Europe has been spared for the time…
I’m not a huge fan of those pod coffee makers. A couple years ago, I wrote about how the Keurig may possibly be the dumbest high-tech kitchen gadget ever created. Leave it to the good folks at Nestle to up the ante and create something that makes even less sense. So, over the holidays, a…
I have a lot of fond memories of the Sega Genesis. It was my first console, and sparked my love of video games that continues to this day. However, I only ended up getting one fairly late in its lifespan. By the Christmas of 1993, it had already been on the market for five years….
Top Hat Games is fighting back after social justice activists demanded that Sense: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story be censored over its suggestive themes. The game itself has been characterized as a mix of Cantonese folklore set against a cyberpunk background. A young woman, Mei-Lin Mak, is dragged into a supernatural horror, and begins to question…
Epic Games has responded to concerns over high CPU usage by its Epic Games Store app. Director of Publishing Strategy Sergey Galyonkin was notified of the issue and has since clarified that it’s a bug with the current version of the software. “We’ve identified the issue and [are] currently testing the fix,” Galyonkin said in…
Update: Hidalgo has since issued an apology, stating that his words were meant to be self-deprecating. Though this seems to have done little to ease tensions between LucasFilm and the Star Wars community. LucasFilm has once again come under fire for their treatment of fans following a Twitter fracas between popular Canadian YouTuber Star Wars…
The Gambling Health Alliance in the United Kingdom recently did a study on loot boxes and children, and the results… aren’t great. The survey looked at 611 young people from England, Scotland, and Wales, There’s a lot of interesting information to pick apart here. The UK Gambling Commission found that 23% of gamers aged 11…