Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus and occasional Bond villain, has taken a break from getting trapped in his own car elevators to lead a collective of tech billionaires in founding a new crypto bank called Erebor. First thing’s first: this is not a bank for the likes of you and I. Erebor is all…
Despite being an intense team game with a ranked mode—typically a breeding ground for toxicity—I’ve had a blessedly chill time in Rematch. It might just be because I’ve been wearing out my d-pad spamming “We got this!” to keep everyone calm, but I can count the amount of actual game-ruining griefers on one hand. I…
His appointment “could lead to an interesting future”. Shigeru Miyamoto has spoken about the appointment of Nintendo’s newest outside director Kazuhiko Hachiya, director of the Japanese doll company PetWORKS. Speaking at the 85th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders Q&A, Miyamoto addressed a question on the increased number of outside directors “with diverse backgrounds”, including Illumination…
Earlier this week, Peak developers Landcrab had to cycle back on a patch that was released to help improve stability. All the fixes worked, the only problem was that it somehow stopped a bunch of players from accessing the game. But now the devs have come back with the same patch with all of the…
Resistance is futile, the change is already upon us. OLED is taking over the gaming monitor market, and for good reason. OLED technology is so much faster than any LCD-based display. It also offers perfect per-pixel lighting that blows away even the best local-dimming systems in LCD monitors. OLED is not, of course, perfect. Apart…
1.21 gigabytes!? Switch 2 brought with it something we’d dreamt about on the original Switch: GameCube games on NSO. With the new GC controller giving Wind Waker, F-Zero GX, and SoulCalibur II that authentic feeling (while also adding wireless without a WaveBird and sneaking in some gyro and other neat features, too), we’ve been having…
Cathedral: Crow’s Curse announced for PC and consoles. Decemberborn Interactive, the indie developer behind the NES-inspired metroidvania Cathedral, announced earlier this week that it is working on a prequel that will be coming to PC (Steam) and consoles (Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4). Cathedral, in case you’ve never heard of it, was an action-adventure game released…
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes—every so often, in times of deep economic equality, someone with a thick paycheck or accumulated wealth will waltz up and say something so mind-bogglingly disconnected from good sense and empathy that it becomes enshrined as an example of what not to say. The latest entrant to the…
10 Chuck’s Arcade locations are now up & running. The legendary arcade and family entertainment brand Chuck E. Cheese has just announced that it has launched a new set of arcades across the US geared specifically towards adults. According to the press release (as spotted by CNN and USA Today), these locations, called “Chuck’s Arcades“,…
“Without a fan, you can’t play for long”. With the addition of a fan in the Switch 2’s dock, we all knew that Nintendo’s new console would probably kick out a bit more heat than its predecessor in order to manage the more technically demanding games. According to some folks in Japan, however (thanks, Nintendo…