Items tagged with console gaming
Epic Games' recent lay offs of over 1,000 employees has been decried by gamers and industry professionals alike, most prominently by Chet Faliszek, former Valve writer best known for his work on the Portal, Half-Life, and Left 4...
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Fortnite has been declining in popularity, to the point that not only are several game modes going offline this year, but over 1000 employees are being laid off from Epic Games. Fortnite's past success, constant tie-in promotions with a...
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This morning, a huge Nintendo story hit the headlines: per Bloomberg, Nintendo is allegedly reducing Switch 2 manufacturing goals from 6 million units this quarter to 4 million units due to sales figures trailing expectations for the 2025...
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After 8BitDo collaborated with Analogue on the final (delayed) release of the Analogue 3D with its 8BitDo 64 Bluetooth wireless controller, 8BitDo is following up with the release of two new products: a Bluetooth 8BitDo Retro Receiver for...
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AI has seen both fervent praise and vicious criticism across the gaming industry as of late, and Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two Interactive, has come out swinging against the technology stating that "The notion that AI can make GTA is...
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Mario Kart World is getting a set of two officially-licensed racing wheels from Hori, nine months after the game's June 2025 release. This set of racing wheels (Pro Deluxe and Pro Mini) are similar to the original Hori Racing Wheels...
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Roblox isn't just a game, it's a game development platform in every sense of the term. A recent Bloomberg story helped expose just how profitable that platform can be for its contributors, with developers like Nate Colley, developer of the...
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Xbox emulation is now available on Android, albeit in a limited and somewhat controversial form. The app is called X1 Box and it is available in Google's Play Store for $7.99, as of this writing. Eagle-eyed users, however, have noticed...
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A modder has successfully shown off Grand Theft Auto V: Enhanced Edition running smoothly on the PlayStation 5 under Ubuntu Linux, with the CPU and GPU clocked up to 3.2GHz and 2GHz, respectively. Compared to the default CPU and GPU boost...
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Amidst credible speculation that PlayStation may be stepping back from porting its single-player catalog to PC, former Blizzard boss Mike Ybarra has attributed the move to Valve's explosive Steam Machine announcement. With Valve formally...
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Call of Duty: Warzone is introducing a new Black Ops Royale mode with some very familiar elements reminiscent of both Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 and last year's Black Ops 7. From Black Ops 7, we have a port of the large-scale Endgame mode...
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Amidst drastic shifts from Xbox and the wider (PC) hardware market, Sony is reportedly considering a pivot away from its more recent strategy of eventually porting its single-player catalog to PC.
As-is, Sony first-party exclusives...
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Arc Raiders, one of the biggest hits of 2026, has been fighting cheats and exploits since day one. Recently, however, a particular item duplication exploit was popularized by streamer TheBurntPeanut, whose videos on the matter received...
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Over on X/Twitter, the developers of the cross-platform PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 have touted a key compatibility milestone, with 98% of PS3 titles playable on the emulator in some form and an impressive 73% playable to completion. Of...
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Sony's PlayStation State of Play conference has several highlights, but one that particularly sticks out to us is the confirmation of a new John Wick AAA game targeted at PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. John Wick has previously...
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Black Myth: Wukong drew high critical acclaim for its top-notch production values and well-adapted Souls-like gameplay, and now its sequel Black Myth: Zhong Kui is being shown off ahead of its eventual release. The new Black Myth: Zhong...
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Dispatch, an episodic adventure game from an indie studio with a star-studded voice lineup including Aaron Paul, has earned critical acclaim since its release, but the recent arrival of a port to the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 has caused...
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AAA publisher and developer Ubisoft has released some unfortunate news. In the process of its development restructuring into six Creative Houses, Ubisoft also had to kill six games and delay seven more, with the most prominent loss being...
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Amidst rising AI discontent, some tech CEOs have formed somewhat of a united front insisting that critics of AI are somehow incorrect. In an interview on Decoder with Nilay Patel (a podcast produced by The Verge), Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan...
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To the surprise of few, leaked footage from the upcoming Grand Theft Auto 6 has incited a moral panic, but not from the usual Stateside suspects like disbarred attorney Jack Thompson. Instead, it is coming from Russia, with a recent...
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Fans of the infamous "trash can" Mac Pro from 2013 may remember its unconventional triangular cooler design. Well, that innovative design was the inspiration for the chassis of a new composite console mod dubbed "Ningtendo PXBOX 5", which combines a Nintendo Switch 2 (and its dock) with a...
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PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 is one of the scene's crown jewels, and the development team achieved several milestones in 2025, including 70.55% game compatibility, major performance improvements (including better utilization of AVX-512...
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