The Elements of Gadgets and Gaming
Epic Games is suing Apple and Google for anti-competitive practices, over the way in-app purchases are handled in the App and Play stores. The Fortnight Developer recently released an update for the mobile version of the game, which allows players to purchase microtransactions directly through them, rather than having to go through each platforms’ respective…
It’s not often you’ll find me jumping in to defend Facebook, Microsoft, and game streaming. They’re an unholy trinity of BS in and of themselves, so you know someone must be up to some really stupid shenanigans for me to do so. Enter our good pals in Cupertino. Microsoft is due to release their Project…
On the Weekend throwback, we revisit some vintage, well aged (like fine milk) articles from the site’s history, to see how tech has evolved in the last 13 years. Today, we’re checking out our classic review of the PlayStation 3 from September 2008. Was it really a 7th generation Beast? I’ve been saving for a…
It’s been a long time since we’ve had free online multiplayer on consoles. Nintendo was the final hold out, officially moving to a premium service back in 2018. However, there’s a rather intriguing rumour going around that Microsoft, the company that invented paid online multiplayer, might actually be looking to do away with it. Could…
Halo Infinite is not a pretty game. At least not by next gen standards, with all their fancy ray tracing and more polys than you can shake a stick at. The game looks, kind of gross to be honest. Even Digital Foundry questioned why they had chosen to show that particular part of the world…
As someone who’s primarily a PC gamer, the whole concept of backwards compatibility just seems bizarre to me. I have games over 20 years old that will still contently run on a modern PC. Sure, not everything works perfectly. Sometimes you need a tweak or an emulator in the case of DOS titles, but they…
I didn’t really intend on talking about the Xbox Games Showcase. There’s certainly a few cool games here of note. Fable of course being the big one. Of course Forza looks great as always, and I have high hopes for Avowed as well. Then there’s Halo Infinite. Oh boy. If you’re showing off the flagship…
Ouya, Ouya, Ouya, schika schikaaaaaa. The year was 2012, Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” was topping the Billboard charts, preppers were eagerly awaiting the end of the world (that got delayed 8 years), and a little micro-console was causing a big splash in the video gaming landscape, only to end up as yet another…
So we’re now well into the hype phase going into a new console generation, and to be honest, I’m not seeing the excitement this time around. Either from myself or the gaming community at large. I think most people have resigned to the fact that consoles will be incremental upgrades from now on, rather than…
Apple will be ditching Intel and transitioning the Mac to ARM based processors over the next two years. I’m actually surprised it hasn’t happened before now, but here we are. The Mac lads are now full steam ahead, making their fourth major architecture change since the dawn of the platform in 1984. The move makes…