VentureBeat has released some more data about how the video gaming industry did on televisions in the United States during January of 2021. This time, they’re taking a look at the top 5 gaming brands, ranked by estimated national television ad spending. Playstation, Nordeus, GameFly and Jackbox Games make up the top 4. At #5…
Dragon Age: Origins took some big swings when it came to letting players, as the future Hero of Ferelden, make such a big mark on the world, changing the fates of individuals and nations. And BioWare felt free to give players this kind of agency, this ability to shape the story, because it didn’t expect…
Technologically speaking, America has been quite afraid of Chinese development for, well, ever, but there’s been a significant resurgence of this thought since the boom of AI in the last few years. After much deliberation and argumentation, Nvidia was finally cleared from US scrutiny to import its H20 chips into China recently, and this came…
“They wouldn’t release it under the Seibu Kaihatsu name”. Those of you who followed the Japanese launch of Sony’s PlayStation back in 1994 will be aware that Seibu Kaihatsu’s Raiden Project was a very early release for the console. A two-game collection featuring Raiden (1990) and Raiden II (1993), it launched at the start of…
Intel’s new CEO Lip-Bu Tan conducted his very first earnings call with the usual roll call of investors and banking bigwigs yesterday. Along with promising to bash the company into shape, including “flattening” the management structure and requiring everyone to turn up to the office four days a week, Tan tantalisingly revealed his aspiration for…
Launching early June. Nintendo has announced a new ‘Choose Your Game’ console bundle for the Switch 2, launching at participating retailers in North America in early June for $499.99. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Brendan Iribe Just a few blocks away from the Hollywood Bowl at the Dolby Theater (the same theater that hosted the 2014 Academy Awards) in Hollywood, California, developers and journalists poured into their seats for a keynote address hosted by Oculus CEO Bredan Iribe. Most of the first half of the keynote was dedicated to…
New languages and 90% faster folder game loading. The PSP SNES emulator Snes9xTYL is being resurrected, it has been revealed. The last official release on GitHub was in 2018, but @SrLinguicaVIVE has reported that esmjanus’s emulator has been forked by a developer called OniMock. Read the full article on timeextension.com New languages and 90% faster…
The playtest was extended to Switch 2 in July. Another patent has been published for the Switch Online Playtest Program, which was extended to Switch 2 users in July. According to Nintendo Patents Watch on Bluesky, the patent was originally filed in Japan in April last year and in the US in April 2025. The…
You’ll know this frustration if you’ve ever been part of the community around a game that has both singleplayer and multiplayer modes. People who prefer one to the other are always convinced the other cohort doesn’t exist. “Nobody plays this game in a different way to me and my friends, and anyone who says they…