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How Microsoft & XBOX Ruined Gaming

20 Apr 2023 9 minute read 6 comments The Retro Perspective

In 2001 the original Xbox was released to the world and a turning point was reached for the entire gaming sphere. Competing fiercely with the previous year’s PlayStation 2 and releasing almost simultaneously with Nintendo’s Gamecube, Microsoft h...

I Didn't Think Tomb Raider Games Could Get Worse! 😂 | Tomb Raider Reloaded Review

10 Apr 2023 2 minute read 0 comments The Retro Perspective

Publisher: Square Enix LondonDeveloper: Emerald City GamesPlatforms: Mobile I've been a fan of Tomb Raider since day one in 1996, when my dad brought home the original game on PlayStation 1. I've played every single entry of the series, including th...

The State of Linux Gaming - 1 Year After the Steam Deck

9 Apr 2023 2 minute read 2 comments LateToTheParty

Co-published on Read.cash and Zirkels. Time sure flies as the Steam Deck is already over a year old. Sporting a custom Zen 2/RDNA2 APU in a small handheld form factor, the device can play thousands of games on the go while running on an Arch-based op...

Why The Yellow Paint Is A Big Deal | Resident Evil 4 Remake

5 Apr 2023 2 minute read 2 comments The Retro Perspective

The original Resident Evil 4 came at a time when "dumbing down video games" was at the forefront of the conversation and it turned out that the worst was yet to come. Resident Evil 4 went on to be a masterpiece, which let the player dictate the actio...

NFTs and Video Games

16 Mar 2023 2 minute read 2 comments Buzzbeeg

Video Games and NFTs I think NFTs have a great future in video games but there is resistance to Web3 technology. The resistance points are: Fear that NFTs will worsen the trend of video game companies milking micropayments.  Fear that crypto wallet...

Gamers used "ChatGPT" long before ChatGPT

6 Mar 2023 3 minute read 3 comments Krzamake

Artificial intelligence or AI (artificial intelligence) is the most complex and demanding part of video games. It is not easy to simulate the behavior of living beings in games because they are layered and include many potential (inter)actions. Never...

Immersys For Newbies Part 1

26 Feb 2023 1 minute read 1 comment towm8ter

So you have downloaded Immersys and connected your wallet to the game, but you do not know or have key knowledge in the game to get started. You see someone with a top hat and ask if they can bestow wisdom on the land. To which they respond by throwi...

Open-Source Games

25 Feb 2023 2 minute read 0 comments AtomicFirefly 🧩

I know I don't have the money nor manpower to make my dream games come to life, but I think that if more games were moddable or even open-source, the game industry would begin booming. By making every part of the game moddable, including the deepest...

Fair Use, Plagiarism & Everything Inbetween | Youtubers & Copyright Law

15 Feb 2023 5 minute read 1 comment The Retro Perspective

‘Fair use’ law is the backbone of the vast majority of gaming focussed channels on YouTube, so it stands to reason that there have been a whole lot of videos explaining just what fair use is...but unfortunately, sometimes it’s really not fair use. A...

WILL ALL XBOX GAMES WORK ON XBOX X?

7 Feb 2023 2 minute read 0 comments MRyan

While shopping for a birthday gift for my husband I was curious.  I thought to myself, “Will all X-Box one games work on his Xbox X?”  If so this will open my options because there were many games on clearance.  I could buy several instead of just on...