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Sega Sammy has sold off their venerable arcade business following CCPVirus related business woes. In a shareholders meeting this week, the company annoucned that they would transfer 85.1% of their shares in Sega Entertainment to rival Japanese amusement company Genda. The latter will operate Club Sega arcades in Japan, while Sega themselves will continue to…
Camping out for the launch of a new console is one of video gaming’s most time honoured traditions. Well, at least among the handful of diehards who cannot bare a nanosecond to be without the latest shiny. However Sony is telling PlayStation 5 fans not to bother this time, as none will actually be available…
Cyberpunk 2077 has been delayed yet again. This time, CD Projekt Red has pushed the hotly anticipated release back another few weeks to December 10th. This is the third time this year the game has been delayed. While the Communist Orchestrated Viral Infection Disaster has been blamed for a lot of these issues, it’s important…
The Halloween season is upon us again. Which means Treehouse of Horror is back on The Simpsons. It’s one of the few aspects of the show that remained consistently not terrible during the modern run. But instead of the new stuff, we’re of course going to dive into the classics and pick out ten of…
Streamers should be paying developers to feature their content, according to Google Stadia’s creative director Alan Hutchinson. “Streamers worried about getting their content pulled because they used music they didn’t pay for should be more worried that by the fact that they’ve played games they didn’t pay for as well,” Hutchinson said in a tweet…
PlayStation has banned chat banter that is critical of the People’s Republic of China, in a terms of service update which specifically targets the Hong Kong market. The update to the Hong Kong region terms, which was published this month, includes the following under the Community Code of Conduct section: “For users with China Mainland…
Another week and yet another skeevy games company slipping in undesirable “features” a month post-launch. This time we have 2K games adding unskippable advertisements into NBA 2K21. The game now forces players to watch something called “MyTEAM Season 2, Episode 7” prior to each match. Which amounts to little more than a 30 second commercial…
Another console generation is upon as. This time around, both Sony and Microsoft are looking to win on beefier specs rather than more cost effective hardware. How well with this play out for them? Well, take a look for yourself. Just like we did seven years ago, we’re going to take a look at each…
Sony will reportedly be allowing internet randos to record your party chats on PlayStation 5 for “safety” purposes. “We want PlayStation to be for everyone”, the company said in a message to the community. “Please be aware that voice chats may be recorded and sent to us by other users. By participating, you agree to…
Even before the PlayStation 5 was announced, many of us hoped it would finally give us backwards compatibility for the PS3. Given my love for Sony’s bizarre 7th gen console, that would have made it a guaranteed purchase for me. However, the company has confirmed that its upcoming hardware will not be playing those games…