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Aaron Leong - Thu, Jun 05, 2025
For those reading the headline and hoping for 1:1 nunchucks or light saber battles in the living room with your buddies—sorry to say, Sony's new surprise "Project Defiant" reveal is anything but. Instead, it's simply the company's first...
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Ben Funk - Sat, Apr 05, 2025
All the hubbub the last couple of days has been about the Switch 2's preorder date, and how that's been delayed due to Trump's tariffs, but something else caught our ear during Nintendo Direct this past week. The company talked about...
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Tim Sweezy - Thu, Aug 29, 2024
GameStop continues to look for news ways to evolve and stay afloat as it announces it is turning select locations into retro stores. The old take on new stores will focus on retro console classics such as the Sega Dreamcast, and Xbox...
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Zak Killian - Sat, Jul 20, 2024
The ASUS ROG Ally X is due to launch on the 22nd of this month. That's this coming Monday, if you haven't been keeping up. Arriving alongside the revised version of ASUS' gaming handheld is a new version of the Armoury Crate software...
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Tim Sweezy - Mon, Feb 19, 2024
Fans of Sega’s iconic Crazy Taxi video game are fastening their seatbelts in anticipation of a return of the classic, and often chaotic, game that Sega is calling a triple-A title. Crazy Taxi first appeared in arcades in 1999, before...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Feb 06, 2024
The Nintendo Switch is just one month shy of turning 7 years old and while there have been some iterative upgrades since the original model's release in 2017, the core hardware is essentially the same. Seven years is an eternity in tech...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Jan 19, 2024
Do you know why the debate over PC versus console gaming will live on in perpetuity? One reason is because of surveys like the '2024 State of the Game Industry' that was just released by the Game Developers Conference, which adds fuel the...
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Tim Sweezy - Fri, Apr 28, 2023
Even in the midst of exploding PlayStation 5 sales, Sony casts a conservative outlook on the current fiscal year. The company warns that a global slump in spending on electronics and entertainment will impact future profits.
It wasn't...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Mar 13, 2023
Sony released its PlayStation 5 console to retail nearly two and a half years ago and it's still not as widely available as one might expect. The situation has certainly improved, but if you want to grab a standalone PS5 from Amazon...
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Tim Sweezy - Fri, Jan 13, 2023
Microsoft is rolling out an update soon to Xbox, making it the first carbon-aware console. The company is aiming at becoming carbon-negative, water positive, and zero waste by 2030.
Tech companies are constantly looking for ways to...
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Tim Sweezy - Tue, Sep 20, 2022
A new rumor suggests the PlayStation 5 could be in for a face lift. Sources are saying the new "D" chassis will also have a special feature that current consoles lack.
Currently Sony's highly popular PlayStation 5 console has two...
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Tim Sweezy - Tue, Jul 26, 2022
The time it takes your Xbox Series X/S console to boot up is about to get a bit faster. Microsoft was able to cut several seconds off the boot sequence by creating a shorter bootup animation.
Gamers can be some of the most impatient...
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Tim Sweezy - Wed, Feb 16, 2022
As gamers still struggle to get their hands on a next-gen console, Sony is giving them a chance to win a PS5. But it isn't as simple as liking a tweet. No, you will have to participate in a scavenger hunt for hidden codes to gain...
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Tim Sweezy - Tue, Nov 09, 2021
PlayStation 5 consoles have been very hard to come by since last year's launch. But Sony's PlayStation Direct has good news for those paying attention and signed up with that feature.
It seems that PlayStation Direct has sent out emails...
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Nathan Ord - Wed, May 26, 2021
Thanks to the pandemic and stay-at-home orders over the last year, gaming has seen a massive uptick. However, traditional consoles and even PC components have been hard to come by due to the global semiconductor shortage. Amidst this...
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Nathan Ord - Wed, Dec 23, 2020
While people cannot go out and about with friends to events or to catch a movie, anyone can sit inside and play some video games. According to metrics collected by SuperData, that is precisely what many people did. It turns out that in...
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Tuan Huynh - Tue, Nov 24, 2020
It is once again time for a new console generation and Microsoft has two shiny new products ready for the holiday 2020 shopping season. Continuing its tradition of sometimes fuzzy model branding, we have the new Xbox Series X and Series S, which succeed the previous-gen Xbox One X, Xbox One...
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Nathan Ord - Tue, Nov 17, 2020
The next-generation Xbox and PlayStation consoles launched last week, but it looks like Bud Light felt left out? The design team at Bud Light decided to whip up a new console that combines two of our favorite things: beer and gaming gear...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Aug 13, 2020
Remember the little yellow handheld console called PlayDate? It is an adorably sized game system with a monochrome display and unique hand crank, and it is still being developed for an eventual release. While we wait, the company behind...
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Shane McGlaun - Wed, Feb 13, 2019
Gamers who have been holing out for prices on the Xbox One X to go down before they jump into 4K gaming might want to take advantage now. Newegg has the Xbox One X bundle that includes a single controller and a copy of the maligned Fallout...
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Shane McGlaun - Sat, Jan 05, 2019
Earlier this week we talked about a new game console that the CEO of Slightly Mad Studios, Ian Bell, was teasing called the Mad Box. We came away from that teaser with a lot of questions and a promise from Bell that renders of the console...
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Shane McGlaun - Thu, Jan 03, 2019
If you are a fan of games like Project CARS 2 or Need for Speed: Shift, you are familiar with the work of Slightly Mad Studios from London. The studio was founded back in 2009 and is mostly known for racing and driving sim games along with...
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