The Elements of Gadgets and Gaming
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…
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…