photo: SOPA Images / LightRocket (Getty Images) TikTok has already conquered the world. Millions of people (including me…) spend far too many hours on the popular video sharing app, watching thousands of bite-sized, often very funny, clips created by other users. And now, seemingly to suck away the few remaining hours of your day, the ...
picture: Sony/Bend Studio/Kotaku Starting next month, Sony will launch its somewhat confusing tier-based PlayStation Plus service. For those who pay for the top tier, PS Plus Premium, you get access to some older PS1 games. And at least at siphon filter, You can now earn trophies while playing this 22 year old classic. I probably ...
photo: Luke Plunkett Microsoft has applied for a patent, but it’s not a perfect solution for every hassle you have with modern consoles and digital propertycan still a big step forward for anyone who has a catalog of games on disc but has bought (or is considering buying) a digital-only console. The patent, first discovered ...
photo: Scott Olson (Getty Images) Amazon-owned streaming platform Twitch said it had removed a live stream from a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York over the weekend within two minutes of it going live. However, this response time was not enough to prevent recordings of the footage from being shared on other online platforms such ...
picture: EA Tolkien’s influence on video games goes back decades. Fans have played games based on Lord of the Rings (and The Hobbit) for almost as long as video games have existed, and for every misguided flop there has been a game that was surprisingly good for a licensed product. And in some cases much ...
valve portalreleased in 2007 (!), is one of the last games you’d expect the humble little N64 to pull off, and yet here we are in 2022 and seeing it pull off quite well. Programmer James Lambert has been working on one portal demake for Nintendo’s system for a while, but in his latest development ...
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A long time ago it was pretty easy to buy and play a video game. You bought the disc or cart, put it in the console and pressed play. Not so much anymore. Case study: The not-so-great cloud-streaming-only versions of Kingdom Hearts Released for Switch earlier this year has recently received an update and now ...
screenshot: Rockstar Games When Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – Definitive Edition launched last year, it was a disaster. Three of the most popular video games of all time have been officially re-released on modern hardware, and not only did they look crap, but that’s how it went. things were so Bad indeed, this rock ...
photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) Pour one out for every kid who strapped on a backpack in middle school as they are probably grieving today. With Apple’s discontinuation of the iPod Touch 7th announced yesterdayIt’s official: the iPod is dead. Supposedly, the iPod was a music device designed to digitize song libraries and take listeners ...
