The Elements of Gadgets and Gaming
Gaming in Japan is weird. Weird in the sense that they buck the tends of every other video game market in the world. They’re off on their own little island, literally and figuratively. Probably the best example is how arcades, while starting to decline nowadays, continued to flourish long after they disappeared from North America….
In news that shocked absolutely nobody, Google has announced they will be officially closing their Stadia game streaming service on January 18th, 2023. “A few years ago, we also launched a consumer gaming service, Stadia. And while Stadia’s approach to streaming games for consumers was built on a strong technology foundation, it hasn’t gained the…
So, you’ll probably notice that I haven’t posted much in the way of new opinion pieces or gaming news lately. I’ll go through sporadic periods where I’ll write a ton of content, followed by long lulls. This site is also a hobby. I’ve never monetized it, and its number of visitors is pretty low, so…
On the morning of July 8th, 2022, a third of Canadians woke up to discover they had no access to internet or cell service. A misconfiguration done during routine maintenance quite literally brought the entire network to its knees. One which wasn’t fixed until late in the evening. This is a huge, festering problem, largely…
It’s an open secret that Electronic Arts would rather you not play single player games. Well, now the company is getting thoroughly roasted by gamers and the industry after saying the quiet part loud. Posting on Twitter on Friday, the EA’s social media account said “They’re a 10 but they only like playing single-player games.”…
I’ve often had dreams of ditching suburbia and moving off into the woods. The fast pace of city life seems exciting at first for those of us who grew up in small towns. However, as the years tick on, and the rat race drags on, it can become overbearing. Maybe there’s something to living life…
Square Enix has sold off Tomb Raider developer Crystal-Dynamics to Embracer Group as the company shifts its focus to blockchain, AI, and the cloud. The deal, worth $300 million, Embracer will also acquire Eidos-Montreal and Square Enix Montreal, and along with then IPs such as Deus Ex, Thief, and Legacy of Kain. Embracer Group, formerly…
Sonic Mania is widely considered one of the best games in the series, if not one of the best 2D mascot platformers ever made. The game was considered a fine return to form after the Sonic franchise had wallowed in a seemingly endless sea of painfully average to outright broken releases. So naturally, this would…
Microtransactions. They may very well have replaced cheating and emulation as the most controversial topic within the gaming community. This past month alone, we’ve seen numerous releases that have gone hyper-aggressive on post-purchase monetization. Gran Turismo 7 perhaps being the most notorious of the lot, due thanks to its constant nickel and diming, despite being…
Big tech kind of sucks. It’s stupid that we have to rely on these giant corporations, who scoop up our data to their financial benefit, all while dictating what we can do with our computers. What if there was an alternative there that was freed from the shackles of “The Man’s” software? Linux seems to…