picture: Interactive entertainment from Sony As the new PlayStation Plus service Launches around the world, people have reportedly discovered a major downside to subscription classic games: Many of them use versions released in PAL regions rather than the NTSC versions that many of us are familiar with. The news first surfaced this afternoon thanks to ...
picture: Nintendo Nintendo patents new technology to catch cheaters in games like this best selling forever Mario Kart 8 and turn 2. While video game companies across the industry are trying to crack down on cheat software and other hacks that give players an unfair advantage with off-the-shelf solutions, Nintendo appears to be working on ...
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 ...
A few days ago I saw some people posting online about the latest used GameFly game sale and decided to check it out over lunch. Well I haven’t thought much about GameFly for a long time so my curiosity about how GameFly is these days got the better of me and I decided to explore ...
picture: Warner Bros. We are now 18 months in the Lifespan of PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. The PS4 and Xbox One are officially last-gen, a fact that’s becoming increasingly clear to anyone who’s tried to play elden ring on an old console whose fan sounds like a wind tunnel. Developers are taking notice, too, ...
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 ...
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 ...
screenshot: Nintendo Following late yesterday from redfall and starfield, Microsoft’s two big blockbusters for the year, the release list for the second half of 2022 seems particularly sparse. Pop Quiz: Have you paid attention to the Switch? Continue reading: So much for video game release dates As my colleague Ethan Gach already pointed out in ...
screenshot: TT Games / Lucasfilm / Kotaku Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga did something very few games have done in recent years: it topped the NPD Switch sales chart in April, becoming the first non-Nintendo released game in over a year. and Skywalker saga not only topped the Switch sales charts last month, but ...
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 ...
