Category: video games

  • PC Gaming Show 2019 Notes

    PC Gamer’s “The PC Gaming Show” is back again for 2019. This time it’s sponsored by Epic. Sean Plott and Frankie Ward hosted. Here’s everything they announced: Rebellion’s Evil Genius 2: World Domination is the sequel to a well-regarded base-building game in line with your Theme Hospital or maybe a little closer to Dungeon Keeper.…

  • Microsoft Shitcans Xbox Backwards Compatibility for Xbox One in Favor of Project Scarlett

    One of the problems with putting backwards compatibility in the hands of publishers and developers to pick and choose which games get brought forward is that they go out of business and can’t make a decision, make bad choices based on financial decisions, or in this case Microsoft has decided that they’ve done enough and…

  • Bethesda Softworks E3 Event 2019 Notes

    Bethesda held their E3 event last night, here’s everything they announced. Pete Hines’ Soapbox Pete Hines opened the event after a short video about the people making their games. Todd Howard Todd Howard followed Hines by talking about the “well-deserved criticism” Bethesda received for the not-so-great Fallout 76. He went on to praise the players…

  • Xbox E3 Event 2019 Notes

    Microsoft’s annual E3-adjacent event for their Xbox sub-brand was today. Here’s what they announced: Obsidian’s The Outer Worlds was annonced for October 25th, 2019, it’ll be an exclusive to Microsoft platforms since Obsidian was bought out by Microsoft. This is a sci-fi, Borderlands-aesthetic, faux anti-corporate, first-person, single-player, RPG. It’s about a new person shaking up…

  • The Steam Link App is Finally Out for iOS & tvOS

    The Steam Link app is finally available on iOS (and tvOS) after being available on Android, and then the Raspberry Pi sbc, for a year. The Steam Link app acts like the now-discontinued Steam Link box and streams your Steam library (and more) to your phone, tablet, or TV. The iOS & Apple TV tvOS app…