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Valve Hopes To Avoid Thumbstick Drift On The Steam Deck
17.7.2021
Thumbstick drift is a nasty and frustrating problem that seems to have become more common on some consoles and devices. Valve is aware of these issues and says it has done a bunch of tests and picked high-quality and reliable parts to avoid the “risk” of stick drift becoming a problem with Steam...
The Steam Deck Isn't Competing With The Nintendo Switch
16.7.2021
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before. A game gets announced, say maybe an indie game. It’s exclusive to PC, and it looks promising. Then, out of nowhere, the eternal question: When is it coming out on Switch?Read more
Nintendo Switch Fans Say They're Fixing Joy-Con Drift With Tiny Cardboard
16.7.2021
Earlier this week, a video by YouTuber VK’s Channel purported to finally have the fix for the pernicious Joy-Con drift plaguing countless Nintendo Switch fans. It is the latest in a wide-ranging number of home remedies attempted by desperate people who don’t want to see 70-80 dollars go down...
Xbox Boss Wants To Preserve Games While Threatening Game Preservation
16.7.2021
In a recent interview with Kinda Funny, Xbox boss Phil Spencer spoke about game preservation, and how “I really wish as an industry we’d come together and help preserve the history of what gaming is about, so we don’t lose the ability to go back.”Read more
Everything You Need To Know About Steam Deck
16.7.2021
Two hours before preorders opened up for this fall’s Nintendo Switch OLED model, Valve took a break from not announcing Half-Life 3 to unveil a handheld of its own. The Steam Deck, named after Valve’s everyone-uses-it digital games storefront, allows you to play your entire Steam library on...
Nintendo's Switch Testing Program Just Got Uglier
14.7.2021
When a Nintendo Switch rolls off the proverbial factory conveyor belt, the systems don’t just get stuffed into boxes for sale. Nintendo tests all hardware to make sure that it runs correctly, of course. And as of the latest (and handy) Switch firmware update, the tool it uses to put the system...
Sony Japan Recommends Two-Step Sign-in After PSN Account Takeovers
14.7.2021
While two-factor authentictaion is not new to the PlayStation Network, today the official Ask PlayStation Japanese Twitter account recommended the verification progress be used for logging in. As website Game Impress Watch reports, there have been “many reports” from users of accounts being taken...
Hero Erects Entire Switch Game Wiki After Finding Little Online
13.7.2021
The internet is so big and vast and great and terrible that whenever I can’t find something, I just assume I must not be looking in the right place. In actuality, there’s just a lot of stuff that doesn’t exist because it got deleted or nobody wrote in the first place. That’s what one fan discovered...
Bethesda’s PS5-Exclusive Ghostwire: Tokyo Delayed To 2022
13.7.2021
The great season of delays continues unabated. Ghostwire: Tokyo, the forthcoming PlayStation 5 action adventure game from Tango Gameworks, has been delayed to early 2022, the studio announced in a tweet today.Read more
Fan Throws Away Cardboard PS5 After Finally Buying A Real One
13.7.2021
Have you gotten your hands on a PlayStation 5 yet? Not everyone has! One Twitter user, for example, made do with a home-made cardboard mock-up. “I’ve wanted a PlayStation 5 since early May,” Twitter user Yada tells Kotaku. “The reason why is that Guilty Gear: Strive was going on sale.”Read more
Your Future PC Might Have A PS5 Chip Inside
12.7.2021
This is the AMD 4700S Desktop Kit, a small piece of hardware that combines a CPU, cooler, and memory on a tiny motherboard. It’s basically a mostly self-contained computer system that will soon be appearing in more than 80 different machines from AMD’s system integration partners. It’s also...
Kojima: Death Stranding Director’s Cut Isn’t A Director’s Cut
12.7.2021
Cross-genre game Death Stranding will receive an enhanced and expanded version on PlayStation 5 this fall with Death Stranding Director’s Cut. But Hideo Kojima, the game’s famously enigmatic director, doesn’t think it qualifies as a bona fide director’s cut.Read more
Microsoft Calls For An End To 'Git Gud'
12.7.2021
Before the weekend, Microsoft’s Xbox Twitter account sent a surprisingly important tweet: “Beating the game on the lowest difficulty is still beating the game.” This was then followed up by Double Fine who added that completing Psychonauts 2 with the “invincibility toggle on” still counts...
The Week In Games: Skyward Sword (NOW IN HD)
12.7.2021
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD is out this Friday on Nintendo Switch and is one of the biggest games releasing this week. Read more
Cyberpunk 2077 Was The Most Downloaded Game On PS4 In June
11.7.2021
PlayStation has revealed the most downloaded PS4, PS5, and PSVR games during the month of June, and unsurprisingly, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart was the most popular PS5 title. More surprising is that Cyberpunk 2077, even after its messy launch and removal from the PSN store, was the most...
Ukraine Uncovers Country’s Largest Illegal Mining Farm to Date
10.7.2021
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has located a massive coin minting facility that was illegally connected to the power grid in Vinnytsia. Law enforcement officials claim it’s the largest underground crypto mining farm they have found so far. Ukraine Seizes Thousands of Video Game...
Man Arrested For Selling Modded Zelda Save Files
10.7.2021
A 27-year old man in Japan was arrested after he was caught attempting to sell modified Zelda: Breath of The Wild save files. Read more
Sony Will Lose Another Big PS5 Exclusive In September 2022
9.7.2021
Deathloop is one of the few, big PlayStation 5 exclusives releasing this year, but it was never going to remain only on Sony’s next-gen console. Now we know exactly when its exclusivity period ends: September 14, 2022. Read more
Nintendo Switch Hallway Guy, What Are You Doing
9.7.2021
Nintendo announced an upgraded Switch with a larger, OLED screen earlier this week the same way it’s announced most Switch-related things. We’ve got someone playing Metroid Dread in his living room, a nice poolside session with the Breath of the Wild sequel, and a guy…wait, why is he playing...
Everything Sony Showed At The Latest Big PlayStation Event
9.7.2021
Sony aired its latest State of Play today focusing on smaller indie games and once again showing off its timed-PlayStation 5 console exclusive Deathloop. The company promised there wouldn’t be any big news at the event, but even so, it was bit of a snooze-fest.Read more