The Elements of Gadgets and Gaming
Months after it was pulled from stores, the PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight is back on Steam. The good news? It’s not as badly broken. The bad news? It’s still broken. Gamers took to Reddit to complain that the game still had numerous performance issues. Notably high memory usage, frame rate stutters, and lag…
There’s been a lot of speculation lately over Nintendo’s new NX console. At least in the forums I frequent. The latest news out of the rumour mill is that Big N plans to ship 20 million units within the first year. That’s some Atari level crazy right there. The industry has changed a great deal since…
A rare prototype of the elusive Nintendo PlayStation may have been uncovered. The console was originally part of a partnership between Sony and Nintendo to develop a CD based addon for the SNES. When the deal fell apart, Ken Kutaragi continued to work on the system which eventually became the PlayStation 1. Now never before seeing…
To say the launch of Arkham Knight on the PC was a disaster would be an understatement. Fans of the Batman were met with terrible performance even on high performance systems. Another day, another sloppy port of a console game. Except this time was different. Gamers got upset, and both Warner Bros. and Rocksteady actually…
Did you know that the Original Xbox began its life as a Dell laptop, or that at one point it was going to be an internet device that could play games? How about that Bill Gates had a falling out with Sony? The Original Xbox may not have been a huge success, but it was the…
Valve has announced they will be pulling paid mods from the Steam Workshop, and that gamers will be refunded their money. In a message to members, company representative Alden Kroll admitted that they did not know what they were getting themselves into. “We’ve been shipping many features over the years aimed at allowing community creators to…
Valve caught everybody by surprise when paid mods for Skyrim started going up on Steam last week. Of course gamers are up in arms about it. They liken the paid mods to micro-transactions. Saying it’s unfair to make people pay for something that used to be free. This might be one of the most poorly…
If you needed another reason not to buy the new 2015 MacBook Slow, here’s one. It’s darned near impossible to repair. The folks at iFixit have once again taken the covers off Apple’s latest creation, and what they found is none too impressive. Proprietary screws, lots of glue, and not a single user replaceable part….
A popular YouTube reviewer just uploaded his play session of EA’s newest game, Battlefield Hardline. However, the company does not want anybody monetizing their game footage, and has slapped a copyright strike against this person. The reviewer makes a living doing this, and are now out a ton of cash. How does that make you feel?…
Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata is refuting claims that the company is working with Netflix to produce a Zelda TV series. The Wall Street Journal had reported last month that the streaming giant was developing a live-action show based on the longtime game franchise. Speaking with TIME, Iwata dismissed the story as inaccurate. “As of now, I have nothing…