Why didn’t smartphones kill handhelds
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…
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Can the Steam Deck mesh with Japan’s weird gaming culture?
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,…
Could Apple be developing their own game streaming platform?
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…
The iPad Pro still isn’t a computer, because iPadOS won’t let it
"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…
Stadia to close first party studios
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…
Indian workers allege Apple contractor paying slave wages
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…
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity demo impressions
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,…
US Government questions game publishers over Tencent connections
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…
Epic sues Apple, Google over in-app purchase policies
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…
Apple’s xCloud ban on iOS is utter nonsense
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…