Yeah, it does seem a little unfair that we’re excluding, “FTC blasted by Congress and Gamers for doing their job [in such a piss-poor manner that a federal judge, you know, that person you were trying to impress, informed you as such.]” That feels like burying the lead, or at least, the byline. 

It’s not related to this whole drama, but yes, the Sony Xperia phones aren’t very popular for a reason. Or at least, the Xperia 5 IV (wow, that’s a terrible name) isn’t. The fingerprint scanner leaves a lot to be desired, it has no face ID (not having the option is “more secure” I suppose), its Bluetooth antenna is…

I seriously doubt that’s the case (and I say this as someone who bought a Playstation 5 Ragnarok bundle on a $50 discount from Best Buy a month ago, and have only played it for 40 minutes or however long it took to get to the haptic trigger exercise in Astro’s Playroom before getting distracted by my existing game…

I for one was not familiar with the Stakhanovites, Soviet socialist workers with a focus on hard work and efficiency. Thanks, Succession: You make learning fun!

As noticed by VGC, the report reveals that PlayStation Plus subscription numbers actually fell following the much-touted relaunch, which saw the figures drop from 47.3 million to 45.4 million. Those are clearly still healthy numbers, almost double those Microsoft can boast for Game Pass, but certainly not what Sony…

Correct. Xbox Game Streaming (“Xcloud”) makes use of Series X hardware in server blades. This means there are Xbox Series exclusive games (in the sense that they’re not available on Xbox One), like Flight Simulator, on offer, but as noted, this means that there are no PC Game Pass exclusive titles available (like Retur…

You can stream from a Windows 10 or 11 PC to an Xbox console with the Wireless Display app on Xbox. You can even send Gamepad inputs from the receiving console, to the sending PC, by toggling on ‘Gaming’ mode (rather than ‘Video’ or ‘Work’). Otherwise you’re just sending mouse inputs from your gamepad.

In the grand scheme of things it doesn’t matter much, but I don’t envy Eagle Dynamics—simultaneously dealing with internet boycotts for being a Russian video game developer (they had their start with Su-27 which they published with SSI in 1995, back when we Americans were cheering on Russia’s president as he was …

I could believe it! Though it’s odd so many Americans seem to think Cowboy Bebop only got a movie because of it’s US reception--when the TV series came to an American network after the movie was already in theaters. 

Throughout the 1990s (and before that), the studio Sunrise (owned by Bandai) produced multiple TV series each year, the large majority of them original—and the majority of them never got sequels, theatrical releases, films, or OVAs. It was just what Sunrise did. 1998, the same year as Cowboy Bebop, also saw Sunrise…

It seems like you don’t like open-world driving games—or, possibly, you don’t like driving games more generally (this is an important distinction; I have always preferred Motorsport to Horizon, and I don’t expect FH5 to change my opinion, but I will play it because it is probably the best-looking automobile driving…

Dear Gods of Global Capitalism, can you hear me?

People wouldn’t still be playing it (effectively exclusive to console) if it wasn’t. 

This immediately reminded of just how fucking terrible Steam was went it first launched (and for a few years since then), to the point where people actively avoided it while that was still an option.

At the time, we were coming towards the end of a long period of “cloud feature functionality protocol normalization” (note: clearly not the real name, it’s probably less stupid sound but I don’t know what it is). For example, Xbox announced that, at least in theory, any Xbox Play Anywhere title ought to have…

And I see your article uses Falun Gong and KMT sources for the point most crucial to its argument. Hmm.

Bethesda’s role-playing games like Fallout and The Elder Scrolls have historically launched as platform-agnostic titles.

No—Xbox is making a mini fridge because of dumb internet memes. Xbox, as a division of the Microsoft Corporation, exists because of capitalism, specifically, the same global capitalism that gave us Sony’s Playstation brand (literally the product of a corporate disagreement-turned-rivalry with that third…

The Medium is not particularly scary, in the same way the more obviously-named Layers of Fear was not that scary: these are not games that endeavor to punish the player at every possible corner for forgetting to do x and being murdered for it. You can be killed, but it is uncommon, and on top of that The Medium doesn’t…

TIE Fighter, or as it was known when it came out—“Star Wars: NATO in the Yugoslav Wars.”