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What The Xbox Series X/S Has (And Hasn’t) Added Over The Year
19.11.2021
When Microsoft released its next-gen consoles, the Xbox Series X and the Xbox Series S, nearly a year ago, it was tough to want for much. After all, both machines used the same interface and UI as their seven-year-old predecessor, the Xbox One. Familiarity allows little room for desire. Why change...
Someone Right-Clicked Every NFT In The Heist Of The Century
18.11.2021
Hours ago, a website appeared online with the express purpose of hosting a nearly 20TB torrent (that’s terabytes, folks, the big boys of digital data measurement) containing every NFT available through the Ethereum and Solana blockchains.Read more
What The PS5 Has (And Hasn't) Added Over The Past Year
18.11.2021
One year ago, two notable events happened in the world of video games. First, on November 12, Sony released the PlayStation 5 in certain markets—its first totally new gaming console in seven years. Then, a few days later, Kotaku assessed the new system’s features, exploring what it would take...
Microsoft Exec Praises Preservation and Emulation, But Xbox Isn't Getting More
18.11.2021
Phil Spencer, vice president of gaming at Microsoft, wants the industry to sell more of its older games through legal emulation. There are steep legal barriers to making widespread industry emulation a reality, but it would be a boon to making older games more accessible to players.Read more
Popular Twitch Software Changing Name Following Plagiarism Accusations
17.11.2021
Yesterday, the Twitter account for the livestreaming software Lightstream accused rival streaming software maker Streamlabs of stealing marketing copy from its website. After Lightstream tweeted about how Streamlabs’ website text was modeled on its own, other companies began to corroborate with...
Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Talks About 'Exploitive' NFTs
17.11.2021
NFTs, otherwise known as An Enormous Fucking Scam, are taking root everywhere that someone smells a fast buck and someone else is dumb enough to join them. Which in 2021 is, sadly, a lot of places! So it’s a slight relief, even if it’s only temporary, to see Xbox boss Phil Spencer speak publicly...
What Phil Spencer Can’t Tell You About Elder Scrolls VI Exclusivity
16.11.2021
When the hotly-anticipated open world sci-fi RPG Starfield comes out next year it won’t be coming to PS4 or PS5. That’s a fact that seemed obvious the second Microsoft announced it was buying publisher Bethesda over a year ago in a groundbreaking $7.5 billion deal, but it took the Xbox team until...
Monster Girl Encyclopedia Wiki Will Be Sacked By Host Due To ‘Fetish’ Content
16.11.2021
Fandom, the company that now hosts a solid majority of video game and other pop-culture wikis, recently updated its “community creation policy” with a new section stating that it will no longer host pages that contain “fetish” content. Thanks to this policy update, the Monster Girl Encyclopedia...
Don’t Let Halo Infinite Make You Forget About The Great New Game Pass Additions
16.11.2021
It’s hard to believe, I know, but there are other games coming to Xbox that don’t start with Halo and end with Infinite. Over the next two weeks, Microsoft will add 10 more games to Xbox Game Pass. Here’s what’s struck me: I’ve been watching these rollouts like a hawk for several years. For...
Star Fox Hack Boosts Its Notoriously Choppy Framerate
16.11.2021
Earlier today, Star Fox received a patch that allows the 1993 Super Nintendo classic to perform as if it was taking advantage of an advanced accelerator chip, boosting its framerate from the single digits to something nearing a more modern game.Read more
The Week In Games: Pokèmon Remakes
15.11.2021
This week Pokemon Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl hit the Switch following some leaks earlier this month.Read more
Three Days Later, Remastered GTA Trilogy Still Unplayable On PC Even If You Bought It
14.11.2021
Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - Definitive Edition was released on November 11 on all major platforms including the Switch. However, for folks who bought the game on PC, they’ve been unable to play the game since just shortly after it was released. Now three days later, fans are still unable...
GTA Trilogy Pulled For PC, Rockstar Launcher Broken
12.11.2021
Something has gone very, very wrong since yesterday’s launch of GTA Trilogy on PC. As of last night, all mention of a PC version has been removed from Rockstar’s own site, and the Rockstar Games Launcher app has gone completely offline. Anyone who bought it before it vanished is currently unable...
Windows 11's New HDR Shortcuts Are A Blessing
12.11.2021
HDR, or High Dynamic Range, is something that you kinda take for granted on consoles and TVs, because once you flick the switch it just happens, every time you use it, forever. On PC the technology has been a bit more complicated.Read more
PS2 Emulator Can Now Boot Every Single Title Except For One Weird Golf Game
12.11.2021
While last month the emulation scene was celebrating the fact that PS3 games were making solid progress on the PC, this month it’s the PlayStation 2's turn, with the PCSX2 team announcing that every single game on their plate can now boot at least to the menu screen. Well, almost every single...
Playdate Handheld Delayed To 2022 Over Battery Life Concerns
11.11.2021
Playdate, the cute little handheld with a crank, won’t be making its late 2021 debut, developer Panic Inc. told early buyers via email this morning.Read more
The PlayStation 3 Is Now Fifteen Years Old
11.11.2021
Can you believe it? The PlayStation 3 launched fifteen years ago today. It was an expensive console and a messy launch with hyper overload and some truly bad press conferences. But Sony didn’t give up on the PS3, and neither did gamers. Read more
Digital Foundry's YouTube Channel Hacked By Cryptobros, Gets Taken Down
9.11.2021
The YouTube channel of technical experts Digital Foundry has been taken down for violating community guidelines after it was first hacked and then began broadcasting some crypto scam bullshit earlier today.Read more
Nice Ruins You Got Here
9.11.2021
Ellie Cooper is an artist based in the UK who has done stuff for companies like Disney and Google.Read more
Hackers Appear One Step Closer To Jailbreaking The PS5
8.11.2021
The PlayStation 5 only launched a year ago this week, but already hackers appear to have made massive breakthroughs in potentially jailbreaking the latest Sony console. Both theFlow0 and Fail0verflow posted screenshots on Twitter over the weekend indicating they managed to unlock the PS5’s debug...