The Elements of Gadgets and Gaming
When you’ve been gaming for as long as I have, you’ve had the pleasure to see a lot of fads come and go from the hobby. And one of the most overhyped fads in that time just might be virtual reality. Consumer VR has been with us for about a decade now. This past year,…
AMD has a big problem with their GPU division. The company just released their new top end RDNA3 cards a few weeks back to rather tepid reviews. Now, if you’ve been following Radeon for a while now, this should be unsurprising. It’s been a very long time since their high end offerings were able to…
Ho, ho, ho. Merry Christmas ya filthy animals. 2022 has been a wild ride for gaming. W finally saw a light at the end of the tunnel, and while we certainly had plenty of disappointing titles this year, we got some absolute bangers as well. Hopefully you were lucky enough to find some of our…
Video games have flirted with controversy since their earliest days. Yet despite the medium being a mainstream pass time for over a decade now, the hobby continues to elicit side eyed glances. There’s one concern I’ve been seeing coming up a lot lately in both the mainstream and independent press. That’s whether video games are…
You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout, I’m telling you why. Because Santa Claus might bring you some of these terribly disappointing games. We’re making a list, and checking it twice, to warn all those clueless grandparents out there which games to stay away from during their holiday shopping. So…
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….
In news that shocked absolutely nobody, Google has announced they will be officially closing their Stadia game streaming service on January 18th, 2023. “A few years ago, we also launched a consumer gaming service, Stadia. And while Stadia’s approach to streaming games for consumers was built on a strong technology foundation, it hasn’t gained the…
So, you’ll probably notice that I haven’t posted much in the way of new opinion pieces or gaming news lately. I’ll go through sporadic periods where I’ll write a ton of content, followed by long lulls. This site is also a hobby. I’ve never monetized it, and its number of visitors is pretty low, so…
On the morning of July 8th, 2022, a third of Canadians woke up to discover they had no access to internet or cell service. A misconfiguration done during routine maintenance quite literally brought the entire network to its knees. One which wasn’t fixed until late in the evening. This is a huge, festering problem, largely…
It’s an open secret that Electronic Arts would rather you not play single player games. Well, now the company is getting thoroughly roasted by gamers and the industry after saying the quiet part loud. Posting on Twitter on Friday, the EA’s social media account said “They’re a 10 but they only like playing single-player games.”…