screenshot: Bethesda/Kotaku The way people judge their video games is varied, and few agree on solid rules for what really adds value to playtime. But one of the most controversial is certainly the length of a game. And now, “how long to beat” is a metric Microsoft just added to its PC version of the ...
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 ...
AMD has just announced that it is changing its planned roadmap for the launch of new chips, in order to integrate a new contender in the line of mobile processors aimed at laptops, very focused on performance. Concretely, it consists of adding the new CPU codenamed ‘Dragon Range’ intended to be part of the configuration ...
Mobile entertainment continues to grow year on year and mobile manufacturers, recognizing this need, are integrating new phones with a performance profile into their product portfolio. video game which allows you to approach the games with ease. Game catalogs in app stores App store there google play grow and, such is the implication, that development ...
The wait for AMD’s Ryzen 7 5800X3D processor and its new V-Cache technology is over. Finally, this revolutionary processor has been on sale in stores for only a few days. More specifically, since April 20. However, unlike other Ryzen 5000 series processors, this particular chip shines bright in specific scenarios and dims a bit in ...
Ray tracing, have you ever heard this term? Although it’s been around for a long time in the movie industry, it’s still quite a confusing term, especially when it comes to video games. It’s basically a technique that allows light to behave realistically. The idea of ray tracing is precisely to make games more realistic ...
Sony has officially unveiled its revamped PlayStation Plus subscription service, which essentially combines the best parts of PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now into one package. It’s split into three tiers – Essential, Extra, and Premium – and each offers a slightly different experience. The question is, is that enough to compete with Microsoft’s popular Xbox ...
image: Epic Games, belt storage, Kotaku Australia Bandcamp, best known as an online music distributor and known as a hub for independent artists and labels, announced its joining on Wednesday Epic Games in a blog post by CEO Ethan Diamond. The price Epic Games paid for Bandcamp is currently unknown. the blog entry states that ...
image: Slovak design center As part of a project by the Slovak Game Developers Association, a collection of early communist-era video games received their first English translation and digital publication that offers a unique glimpse into Eastern Europe in the early 1980s. The development of video games in the early 1980s was a really exciting ...
photo: Renata Price / Kotaku This is an oversimplification, but Karl Marx argues that factory workers are alienated from the machine they are working on because they do not own it. The mass-produced tool will alienate you from your craft as well. That’s what it’s designed for. Like you, it is supposed to generate the ...
