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No Man’s Sky creator Sean Murray seems to have disappeared off the face of the Earth since the release of the critically panned game. It has now been over a month and a half since the Hello Games team and Murray have communicated with their customers. “We’re totally focused on customer support right now. Then…
Oh boy, it’s been a fun week for Microsoft gaming news. None of it particularly good. Today, we have Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney speaking out against Redmond’s Universal Windows Platform (UWP) monopolizing and closing off the PC gaming eco-system. “With its new Universal Windows Platform initiative, Microsoft has built a closed platform-within-a-platform into Windows 10,…
Lithium batteries have completely revolutionized the way we build and use our gadgets. They’re small and light, but pack a big energy wallop. They can also spontaneously explode, like when this this poor chap’s e-cigarette set his pants on fire. What’s going on here? What are lithium batteries? Lithium is the lightest metal. It packs the highest energy…
I’ve tried a few times to write an article about YouTube’s current copyright issues and Doug “Nostalgia Critic” Walker’s #WTFU (Where’s the Fair Use) campaign. I’ll bang something out, then come across an excellent counterpoint that makes me completely re-evaluate my position. My knee jerk reaction was to be gung ho in favour of it, but the reality…
Rumour has it that Apple will be ditching the 3.5mm audio jack in favour of Lightning connected headphones in the iPhone 7. This particular rumour has been running across the web for a few years now. So far, Apple has failed to follow through. After all, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Why…
Bethesda has a long history of putting out buggy games, and it seems Fallout 4 is no exception. Gamers have taken to message boards to complain about a whole host of issues, mostly related to performance. Videos have come out showing significant stuttering on the console version. The Xbox One has been been known to drop…
A few months back, we reported that a legendary Nintendo PlayStation prototype had been discovered. At the time, we weren’t sure if this thing actually worked, or even if it was authentic. Now we can say for sure that it’s real, and it’s spectacular. Engadget met with owner Dan Diebold and his father Terry at a retro gaming expo in…
According to a recent survey conducted by Pew Research, there are more women gamers than men. Researchers asked approximately 2,000 adults about what electronics they owned. 42% of women said they had a console compared to 37% of men. Some gaming pundits were certainly seem taken aback by this result. There are still a lot of people, even…
If you’re hoping that Rocksteady and Warner Bros. will finally get around to fixing the broken PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight, don’t hold your breath. The publisher has admitted on the game’s Steam community page that some bugs in the code that are impossible to fix. “We are going to continue to address the issues that…
Every now and then, I’ll come across a thread on gaming sites ranting about pre-order culture. A lot of gamers are pushing to end the practise. Others don’t understand why people are so upset about it. So here’s a quick and dirty primer on why pre-ordering your games is dumb, and why you should stop…