This rumor has been circulation for quite a few months now, but it really got into gear this past weekend when an article was published on comicbook.com (yes, a comic book website… what they are doing covering games is beyond me) saying that, based on speculation from some guy called “HipHopGamer” (someone I’ve never heard […]
With the Christmas holiday behind us I thought I’d do something nice for the community at large, for what its worth, and share some simple tips on taking care of the console you, or a friend, may have gotten (new or used, it’s all the same here), all from the perspective of someone who’s been […]
Yesterday, as a part of “The Game Awards 2019,” Microsoft revealed their next console in quite the theatrical video. Quite the work of art, the video showcased a monolithic, tower like machine drastically different from previous designs in the Xbox family, The Controller is, incidentally, quite familiar and mostly traditional — save for the “Sega […]
I don’t care what you want to call it — discussion, debate, discourse, arguing, whatever it is — any kind of “deep” discussion on Twitter between two parties is, in practice, virtually impossible. This is for two key reasons — the nature of the site itself, and the culture surrounding its used. These two aspects […]
A little while back I wrote about the Late Life and Future of the Xbox 360 and the fact that the console was still getting updates even in late 2019. This, of course, leads you to wonder, just how much longer does the console actually have? In the way of software support via Xbox Live, […]
The past weekend has been quite an interesting one for the gaming community, as this past week the new cloud gaming service (and console) from Google, known as Stadia, launched. Much anticipated by many, it’s safe to say it was met with mixed regard once it was in the hands of players and media outlets […]
With the release of Google Stadia cloud gaming is once again a hot subject. The concept is pretty straightforward — have remote servers handle the brunt work of processing game activity and rendering the video, taking signals from the players controller remotely and sending the resulting audio and video of the game in action back […]
EDIT: 11/25/2019 – This entire situation is, apparently, far worse than I originally thought –See this follow up: https://www.xadara.com/2019/11/i-think-i-misjudged-the-youtube-coppa-situation/ A couple of weeks ago, right on the heels of the paranoia surrounding fear that YouTube was going to terminate accounts that aren’t profitable (something many people still think is the case) came another thing for […]
Google’s hot new amazing super awesome streaming gaming platform, known as Stadia, launched yesterday. Stadia is a cloud based gaming system that, in effect, simply streams the games to the device — your commands are sent over the internet to Google’s servers which actually run and process the game data, then stream the audio and […]
They may be sparse, and they may be minor, but the Xbox 360 is indeed still getting the occasional update! The most recent of these was just a few days ago, on November 12th, with prior updates happening on August 21st, 2019 and lastly the “first update in two years” happening on May 22nd of […]
Last week I mentioned I had procured a ratty old Dell PowerEdge R310 server from work. It’s beat up, missing most of the hard drive carrier sleds (I still don’t know where those went) but it worked and was mine to do with what I saw fit. Over the past weekend I’ve devoted quite a […]
The great thing about working in a privately owned shop which has a long history of procuring and selling all kinds of surplus electronics (alongside the mainstay of video games and the like) is that, sometimes, you get to take home the most wild of things. I’ve previously mentioned a few 2007 iMac’s I got […]
Almost 5 years ago I bought a used Xbox 360 from a local game store. It was an original model, made in 2008, and was sold half jokingly with me reminded it could die on me at any moment. The console has not died on me, and indeed still works a treat. It’s been given […]
Earlier today I published an article on a social media mishap which happened last week. The article went through quite a few permutations during creation, including a few name changes. I didn’t like the original title I had given the article and, after a few tweaks, had found something that fit what I was going […]
Columbus Day was October 14th this year. It’s a holiday that has quite the controversy surrounding it. While it’s modern form here in the states partially originates as an Italian-American heritage day, the timing and spirit of the day is still based on the historic event of Christopher Columbus “discovering” the “new world” for Europe. […]