It's not every day we see a brand new handheld video game console, much less one as funky-looking and curiosity-stoking as Playdate. Just look at this thing! It's such a cutie. And it has a functional crank that folds out from its side. And...

Enter today's contest for your chance to win a PDP Faceoff Deluxe+ Audio Wired Controller for your Switch! Big news: Today we're starting our PDP Summer of Giveaways! I know it's not summer yet, but the heat index here in VA Beach yesterday...

Sound quality has come a long way from the beeps and boops of the early generations of gaming. Epic, modern AAA games require soundtracks, sound effects, and sound mixing that rival Hollywood's best. Last year's every-award-winner God of Wa...

Every hardcore Mega Man fan knows the story behind the elusive Wily Wars. Originally released in specific regions in cart form, it served as a compiled version of the first three games, very much like the SNES Ninja Gaiden Trilogy...

To celebrate the launch of their dark stealth adventure A Plague Tale: Innocence, publisher Focus Home Interactive has teamed up with Xbox to offer this one-of-a-kind custom Xbox One console, featuring a gloomy aesthetic design based on pla...

Oculus is hustling right now. Plenty of other corporations have caught on to the fact that VR is en vogue when it comes to investors and startups, like Sony, Valve, Google, and even HP. It's far from the "HTC versus Oculus" landscape that b...

Over the past three years or so I've spoken to countless VR developers who have nearly all said the same thing: "tetherless VR will be a major factor when it comes to consumer adoption in the future." Zero Latency even figured out a way aro...

As part of the State of Play proceedings, Sony devoted around 30 seconds of the stream to announce a limited-edition Days of Play PS4 slim console styled in steel gray. It'll launch sometime in June. If, like me, you forgot what Days of Pl...

A handful of promising virtual reality titles are destined for PS4 this year, and to capitalize on that influx, Sony is planning to phase in a couple of fresh PlayStation VR hardware bundles for 2019. The first is an all-in bundle of sorts...

A few days ago, Microsoft dropped a hint on the Xbox Twitter account that it was getting involved with Game of Thrones in some capacity or another. Folks saw a burst of flames and imagery that suggested maybe, just maybe, this would amount ...

I’m kind of known for my elongated eulogies for dead systems. While others are moving on (or yelling at me to move on) after a platform is discontinued, I’m usually looking for backup Wii Us so I can play Pikmin 3 well into my 6...

We've seen some bizarre custom consoles in our time, but this officially sanctioned Godzilla-themed Xbox One might just take the kaiju cake. It looks like someone carved out a hunk of Godzilla's flesh. And, well, you can win it! As a promo ...

As a Magic: The Gathering player and an avid tabletop enthusiast, I am no stranger to storage solutions. It seems like I'm always bringing card games or consoles to a friend's house, and this four-controller Switch case (that also holds the...

"Secret patch notes" are becoming a widespread phenomenon, and a recent update for the Nintendo Switch just leapt to the head of the pack. Included in the 8.0.0 update, according to several modding communities, is the ability to allow "boos...

Forward, always forward. That Luke Cage motto is serving Sony well this generation, as they propelled themselves to 96.8 million PS4s sold worldwide as of the end of their last fiscal year (March 31, 2019). That's a monumental feat to ...

We already learned a lot about the PlayStation 5, but Sony was getting ahead of the rumor mill curve there, not preparing for an impending launch. The PS5 would not make a 2019 launch, that much was certain, but just when will it ...

Nintendo is a wild, wild company to speculate about: even mostly guesswork can end up accurate. It has a baked-in audience at any given time so rumors will always be read; even during the Wii U years, and they're such an out-there publisher...

The last time we left the Nintendo Switch, it was floating in the orbit of the Nintendo 64's 32.93 million lifetime sales: now, it has officially surpassed them thanks to a new financial report from Nintendo last night. According to the pub...

In March of 2019, Sony decreed that Vita carts and most Vita models would no longer be produced, marking the death of the system in an official capacity. While the PSP and the PS3 had their time in the sun, their number is nearly up as well...

We all got a big surprise this week when initial news regarding Sony's next console, the PlayStation 5, was revealed courtesy of Wired magazine. While we got to hear information regarding the physicality of the console, its components, and ...

Late last night in the US evening, as is customary with Nintendo, a big Switch update arrived. It's titled version "8.0.0," and brings a few welcome additions to the table. The most impactful one right out of the gate is enhanced sorting fe...

We now know what Capcom was teasing with its retro-enthused video yesterday. As murmured by many on the grapevine, it is indeed an arcade stick pre-loaded with a ton of classic Capcom arcade titles. It's also £200 and it's... well... ...

Wow, so this was completely unexpected. Well ahead of E3 and their separate official PS5 event, Sony is dropping knowledge kernels on us as to what the next generation of hardware actually entails, and the info is substantial. Fed to us by ...

In all my years of gaming, from the NES all the way through our current generation of consoles, there has been a single instance where I actually wore out a controller. It was the purple GameCube controller that came with my console. I put ...

Sega is looking to grab a slice of the highly successful (Nintendo) and not-so-successful (Sony) mini-console market with the release of the Sega Mega Drive Mini (Sega Genesis Mini in the States), which will launch globally on September 19....