Spotify’s Car Thing, due for bricking, is getting an open source second life
Spotify has lost all enthusiasm for the little music devices it sold for just half a year. Firmware hackers, as usually happens, have a lot more interest and have stepped in to save, and upgrade, a potentially useful gadget. Spotify’s…
Amazon’s Mass Effect TV series is actually going to be made
Confirming previous rumors, Variety reports that Amazon will be moving ahead with producing a TV series based on the popular Mass Effect video game franchise. The writing and production staff involved might not inspire confidence from fans, though. The series’…
Sega is delisting 60 classic games from Steam, so now’s the time to grab them
Sega has put dozens of its Master System, Genesis, Saturn, and other console titles onto modern game stores over the years. But, like that Dreamcast controller stashed in your childhood garage, they’re about to disappear—and getting them back will cost…
The PS5 Pro’s biggest problem is that the PS5 is already very good
In many ways, the timing of Sony’s 2016 launch of the PS4 Pro couldn’t have been better. The slightly upgraded version of 2013’s PlayStation 4 came at a time when a wave of 4K TVs was just beginning to crest…
Nintendo confirms Switch 2 will play original Switch games
As US states were busy counting votes to confirm who would be the next president Tuesday night, Nintendo’s Japanese Twitter account was busy confirming a key backward-compatibility feature for the upcoming “Nintendo Switch successor,” which is still only pre-announced, officially….
Metal Slug Tactics gives turn-based strategy a hyper-stylized shot of adrenaline
Metal Slug Tactics pushes hard on the boundaries of the vaunted run-and-gun arcade series. You can run when it’s your character’s turn, but it’s a certain number of tiles. You can gun, but not rapidly, and only after considering the…
Dystopika is a beautiful cyberpunk city builder without the ugly details
Hooray! I’ve unlocked the headquarters for a megacorp with a very ominous name! (Please appreciate my efforts at public transit.) Credit: Kevin Purdy You do get to pick out “Props,” like roads and trams and giant billboards and hologram objects…
iPod fans evade Apple’s DRM to preserve 54 lost clickwheel-era games
Even the bad clickwheel iPod games—like Sega’s nearly impossible-to-control Sonic the Hedgehog port—might find their own quirky audience among gaming subcommunities, Olsro argued. “One [person] beat Dark Souls using DK bongos, so I would not be surprised if the speedrun…