Hydlide. Just say that. Hydlide. It sounds terrible and, based on this Angry Video Game Nerd episode, plays just as bad as it sounds. It’s a role playing game which was popular on various computer systems in Japan and was ported to the NES. It’s similar to the Legend of Zelda in appearance, but doesn’t […]
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 […]
If you’ve at all been on Twitter and seen my pal Prince Watercress share an image of Knuckles the Echidna (from the Sonic the Hedgehog series) but in a blue color and wondered what that’s about, well, wonder no more — here’s the story of just what the hell that’s about. Let’s go back, way […]
In the latest case of “people who can’t even begin to read legalese properly,” quite a bit of a stink was made over a phrase in the most recent YouTube Terms of Service update, which is effective on December 10th 2019. The text in question reads as follows: YouTube may terminate your access, or your […]
Back about 6 months ago the first trailer for the Sonic The Hedgehog movie was released and to say it was met with poor reaction would be an understatement. I, for one, wasn’t surprised by how poor it was — look at the history of films related to gaming and the like, they have rarely […]
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 […]
Coming hot off the heels of IGN’s terrible “Top 100 Games of All Time” list Polygon, another top notch dumpster fire gaming “journalism” site decided to publish their own top 100 list, this time on the “Best games of the Decade” spanning 2010 to 2019. I’ll spare the criticism that a decade really starts at […]
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 […]
James reviews the unlicensed NES game Little Red Hood, highlighting its bizarre cartridge design, random gameplay mechanics, ugly graphics, and frustrating difficulty, resulting in high Nerd rage.
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 […]
I know, I’m a little late getting at this one (as I am with virtually everything) but I couldn’t let this one happen without sharing my thoughts on it. When the list was first brought to my attention the main focus many had was how there were no Sega games, for example, on it, and […]
A new month means a new update on just what I’ve got planned for the next 4 weeks or so here. Not the most interesting content, unless you’re a particular type of person who really likes this kind of “what the person is thinking” content but hell, it wouldn’t feel right starting the month without […]
In the third part of the “Castlevaniathon,” James reviews Super Castlevania IV on SNES and Castlevania on the Nintendo 64. He loves the former for its control and graphics but criticizes the latter’s awkward gameplay and camera issues.