I certainly wouldn’t have any complaints if Epic was actually serious about providing a competitive storefront with a decent launcher...

You can even do a big bunny hop, which I don’t remember being in Crazy Taxi, but is a cool and useful move.

Most of it didn’t make sense for most gamers.
And that’s what Google didn’t get.

Very cool. People will be able to store one Call of Duty game on the internal HDD, AND get space for at least another CoD game.

Have an LG G8X phone and I can literally hook a USB-C to HDMI adapter and plug it into a monitor. It then acts as a standalone second screen and I can hook a mouse and keyboard to it too. Never tried but I think storage drives would work too, through a USB-C multi-adapter (I should test this, I have one) Not that I’d…

Game sizes like these are a big part of why many games turn me completely off. Maybe if I’d be the type of person who play only one game at a time and play it to death all the time, maybe this wouldn’t be so much of an issue, but I’d like to think that I’m like the majority out there, who like to have some choice…

I know. I thought it was a good idea too. I’m a big fan of “modular” anything. And about stores not wanting to carry outdated modules, I don’t see that as different than having to carry outdated phones (provided the tech catch on, of course - which is where this could fail). The only problem I would anticipate from…

Thing is, Nintendo already had a positive reputation back then so third parties weren’t afraid of supporting the product, given that all of the big N previous portables were successes (unless you count the Virtual Boy as a “portable” but that’s for another debate, lol!). Still, that sucked, no doubt, as I remember…

The key thing is “on terms they find favorable”. I’m not to say I know how every business works, but any decision a business make always involve more than the number you get at the end.

What I think we’ll see in the future may be Google selling its Stadia tech to developers who want to have their own streaming system for a specific game (like Control is getting a “streamable” edition on the Switch). That sort of thing.

I just hope they at least try to fix Stadia as a whole

“What? Stadia has started its descent into an unsupported, anti-consumer mess of a shit show? Who would’ve thought?”

Everything we buy these days has jerks and assholes that are profiting from it somewhere in the chain. So sure, we want to avoid giving money to these people, but then, most of the time, we do because we just don’t know about it.

I never played The Lost Vikings that much, but both Rock’n’Roll racing and Blackthorne are titles I played to death back in the days. And both are still eminently enjoyable. Although the song renditions in RNR racing do feel dated. The SNES edition sounds like .mod renditions of famous songs (anyone remember those…

A lot of decently built headphones have a “sidetone” feature that also pass the sound from your environment through the headphone. My PC headphone set (Logitech) has this feature that works quite well. My son has a Corsair one that also have this feature. And my main music-listening one (Pioneer) has a button that…

In fact, all they’re doing is artificially creating demand by removing perfectly functional supply. Even without their markup, they are making things LESS convenient for shoppers, not more.

Yep, pretty much. I’ll add that while many people against the EGS are puerile fanboys, I think, like in many other things, that they’re not necessarily the majority but definitely the most vocal about it.

The big problem right now, is that it is often more profitable to keep the locations vacant than to offer them at a lower rental cost. Why? Because the owner of those spaces can deduct the “loss of revenue” from his income tax bill. At least in some places in Canada, they can. What used to be known commercial streets…

This is also one of my big thing against them. No, it’s opened, it is thus NOT NEW. Then they go on about them telling me they were never played, so they’re new, but then I always tell them that all my games at home are also “never played” you know, because you can’t f-ing tell just by looking at them. Those “new”…

...but still, my hope is that when these giants collapse, it creates maybe a little bit of space for specialist mom ‘n’ pop shops to exist again