The Elements of Gadgets and Gaming
Never go full shill When I die, my last thoughts will be about how much time I spent not having ray tracing in my life. At least that’s according to Tom’s Hardware editor Avram Piltch. On August 24th, 2018, Piltch penned a rather baffling article regarding Nvidia’s new Turing GPUs, titled “Just Buy It: Why…
Facebook, in order to combat “fake news”, is implementing a trustworthiness rating. No, it’s not for ranking articles, but rather to rank you. Well, there’s your taste of Orwell for the day. According to the Washington Post, users will be ranked on their trustworthiness on a scale from zero to one. The advertising giant has…
Well known games critic John “Total Biscuit” Bain passed away this week after a long battle with cancer. The gaming community plunged into mourning at the news. Well, everyone except BioWare’s David Cooks, who took the opportunity to mock Bain’s passing. Shortly after Total Biscuit’s death was announced by his wife, Cooks took to Twitter stating that “the…
Should games journalists be good at games? The recent release of Cuphead has reignited an age old debate over the legitimacy of video games media, or rather some of the people working in that particular field. GamesBeat writer Dean Takahashi gained internet infamy when he famously could not beat Cuphead’s tutorial level while attempting to demo…
I’ve tried a few times to write an article about YouTube’s current copyright issues and Doug “Nostalgia Critic” Walker’s #WTFU (Where’s the Fair Use) campaign. I’ll bang something out, then come across an excellent counterpoint that makes me completely re-evaluate my position. My knee jerk reaction was to be gung ho in favour of it, but the reality…