Items tagged with console gaming
Sony is poised to launch its previously-teased and highly-anticipated PlayStation Gaming Monitor, complete with a built-in DualSense charging hook, alongside the FlexStrike Wireless Fight Stick in August. But what actually sets these...
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IO Interactive's 007 First Light has already proven to be among the most successful Bond games of all time, launching to critical acclaim and 1.5 million day-1 sales. The only better launch this year was the long-anticipated Crimson...
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It has been confirmed that the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 will be the first of the series to land on a Nintendo console since Ghosts (2013) hit the Wii U, and it's dropping support for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One as well...
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OmniDrive is custom firmware for select Blu-Ray drives powered by the MediaTek MT1959 chipset that allows for numerous proprietary game disc formats to be read or ripped for backups and emulation. One of the more sought after uses for...
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DriftGuard has received quite a few significant updates as of late, with a recent breakthrough allowing for firmware-level calibration of analog sticks on some game controllers. Unlike software-bound calibration through something like...
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Unprecedented hardware market conditions are making a continuous impact on the gaming console space, and the latest service to feel that impact is PlayStation Plus. Fortunately, it's something of a minor change: PlayStation Plus'...
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Past rumors of Sony pivoting away from single-player PlayStation Studios-published games releasing on PC have reportedly been confirmed outright: per noted industry insider Jason Schreier, posting on BlueSky, PlayStation Studios CEO Hermen...
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Last week, an e-mail went out to Best Buy Creators promising that Grand Theft Auto VI pre-orders would open today, May 18th. While the legitimacy of the Best Buy email leak has been repeatedly confirmed by various insiders, the big day has...
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It's a great time for fans of premium controllers: not only did the new Steam Controller just release to high sales and critical acclaim, but now leaked photos confirm the existence of an Xbox Elite Series 3 controller.
The first Elite...
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PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 has earned much praise thanks to its rapid pace in emulating the complex Cell CPU architecture since its initial release in 2011, but the open source nature of the project means that virtually anybody can...
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In a PDF on Personnel Changes quietly attached to Nintendo's latest fiscal report, the retirement of one of its most prestigious directors, Takashi Tezuka, was announced. Takashi Tezuka is best known for his involvement in the Super Mario...
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An unexpected feature buried within free Nintendo Switch 2 game Super Animal Royale caught the Internet's attention this week. Specifically, some web pages viewable within the game and Nintendo Switch 2's system-level browser contain...
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In an offhanded comment on the official X account for Call of Duty, developers confirmed that the next entry in the series will be exclusive to current-gen consoles and PC. The responses range from players declaring they weren't interested...
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Mega Man 2 is a beloved classic in Capcom's Mega Man series that is now playable on a watch. My Play Watch, a brand specializing in gaming oriented, like its Space Invaders watch, has partnered with Capcom to create a Mega Man: My Play...
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Early last month, we showcased modder Andy Nguyen (@theflow0 on X) successfully playing Grand Theft Auto V: Enhanced Edition running under Ubuntu Linux on his own PlayStation 5. At the time, this was a private project, but Andy has since...
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It's been an interesting week for PlayStation players, but among conflicting reports of a 30-day DRM policy applied for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, GameStop has stepped into the spotlight thanks to a "Play really has no limits at...
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Arc Raiders' promised Riven Tides update and map—the last of four Escalation updates promised for the season—has arrived, and reactions are mixed thus far. On a positive note, a brand-new Riven Tides map with several detailed locations...
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ZSNES, known and beloved as one of the greatest SNES emulators of all time, launched in October 1997 for DOS and survived on modern platforms with continuous updates until January of 2007. After 19 years of inactivity, the original...
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In a statement originally made to GameSpot, Xbox Chief Content Officer Matt Booty has confirmed that Project Helix is a direct collaboration between Xbox's hardware and software teams, stating that "We're there every step of the way as...
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Former GTA 6 dev David O'Reilly has spoken out about how footage in the trailers might wind up being more detailed than what's in the final game. Specifically, he states that "When you make a trailer, they look at where the camera's going to be, and everything in that view is getting madly...
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In the lead up to Grand Theft Auto 6's release, any statement from former Rockstar Games developers become veritable wildfires in the press. The latest example is from former Rockstar Games audio engineer Rob Carr. An interview with Carr...
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After an Arbitrary Code Execution (ACE) was found in the Japanese-only Lost Levels sequel, an ACE exploit has been found in the original Super Mario Bros. 40 years after its original release. Both glitches are only possible on the original...
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