The Elements of Gadgets and Gaming
Unless you’ve been living under a rock lately, you might have noticed that handheld gaming has become extremely popular. The Switch is now the third best selling video game system of all time. The Steam Deck meanwhile has garnered a loyal cult fanbase, with numerous clones popping up seemingly every other week. Yet if you…
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….
The Xbox team issued a major update for xCloud streaming this week, stating that the service would be coming to all Game Pass Ultimate subscribers in 22 countries. The service is being powered by custom Series X hardware, and will now be made available on all Windows 10 and iOS/iPadOS devices, but only via a…
“Your next computer, isn’t a computer,” Apple boldly claimed in an ad for the iPad Pro a couple years ago. Though you’ll notice that slogan has conspicuously disappeared from their marketing. And for good reason, because it’s all too true. The 2021 iPad Pro is certainly an absolute banger of a tablet. It features the…
We’ve talked a lot about Stadia and how it seems to be perpetually “on the ropes.” Now, we have yet another piece of bad news from the streaming service, as Google has announced they will be closing down their first party studio. “Given our focus on building on the proven technology of Stadia as well…
A riot broke out last Saturday at a Bangalore, India factory owned by Taiwanese tech firm Wistron. The company has been contracted out by Apple to manufacture the iPhone in India. Shortly after the night shift ended, the majority of the plant’s 2,000 employees went on a rampage, causing several million dollars worth of damage…
It’s fair to say that Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity is probably the most anticipated Switch game this Fall. Who doesn’t want more Zelda? Well, a demo dropped this week, so we finally have a taste of what to expect come late November. Really, there’s a lot to love here for both Zelda fans and…
American video game companies are being put under the microscope of the US Treasury department over their ties to Chinese megacorp Tencent. Bloomberg cited an unnamed source stating the Committee on Foreign Investments has sent a letter to Epic Games, Riot, and others requesting they divulge information regarding security protocols. Namely how they handle Americans’…
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…