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Ouya, Ouya, Ouya, schika schikaaaaaa. The year was 2012, Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” was topping the Billboard charts, preppers were eagerly awaiting the end of the world (that got delayed 8 years), and a little micro-console was causing a big splash in the video gaming landscape, only to end up as yet another…
A few weeks back, I wrote about how the iPhone SE 2 is not the mid-range killer the media are making it out to be. Which is certainly true from a features perspective. Aside from raw performance, you’re getting something that falls short of a lot of mid-range Android phones from five years ago. That…
We now know how much Google Stadia will cost, and what it will feature, ahead of its official E3 presentation. The service will initially release with a single Pro tier, which will cost $10 a month. This will give you access to games in up to 4K at 60fps, with HDR colour and 5.1 surround…
PlayStation Mobile will be shutting down in July, with in-app purchases and re-downloads being discontinued come September. Sony confirmed the announcement on the PlayStation Support Forum Wednesday morning. The service provides bite sized games for the Vita and Android smartphones. Gamers will still be able to play their games after the cutoff date, but they…
It’s no secret that 2014 was not the best of years for Sega. The company is now beginning to explore options to streamline its business operations, including reducing its workforce. In a message to shareholders, its board of directors announced that about 300 Japanese employees have been asked to voluntarily take early retirement. The company…
Streaming games is the next big thing, apparently. So much so that a lot of hardware companies are doubling down on the technology. NVidia has been at the game for awhile with their Shield, a handheld Android console that can play PC games over LAN. A little while ago, we heard rumours that they were…
To say that the Ouya was disappointing is a bit of an understatement. When it stormed onto the scene a couple years ago, it made a lot of promises. Ouya was going to change gaming by giving us the world’s first open console. People were excited, very excited. It became one of the fastest funded Kickstarter…
Can you handle this much power in your hands? That’s what he said, as he whipped out some benchmarks for the NVidia Shield 2. Surely to excite all 10 owners of NVidia’s PC streaming handheld, the system is about to get a pretty beefy update. At least that’s according to rumours that popped up on benchmarking site…
Bad news if you were hoping to get your mitts on the nVidia Shield tomorrow. The Tegra 4 powered handheld has been pushed back to July. The company cites quality issues with a third party component. They apologized to those who pre-ordered the system and promised they’d have a definitive launch date soon. Full release…
After kicking off the most successful Kickstarter campaign in gaming history, Ouya finally went up for sale yesterday. The plucky little Android console quickly sold out at retailers nation wide. Reviewers are so far having mixed reactions to the device. Some like it’s open customization and low cost, others…