The Elements of Gadgets and Gaming
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 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 initial launch didn’t land…
The face of the games industry has changed a lot since about 2008-ish. When gaming started to go mainstream, a lot of people flooded 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 of whom…
Runescape pushed an update this week which removed male and female from the character creation screen, replacing them with “Body Type A” and “Body Type B”. This has conservative gamers in an uproar, as they believe it to be more woke mind virus infecting the industry. Which it most certainly is. However, when taken in…
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 purchased an Xbox Series S. There was much to like about Microsoft’s diminutive entry-level system. It provided a good level of performance for an accessible price, when next-gen consoles were getting very pricey. So how have I been enjoying my Series S? Well, it’s not even hooked up….
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…