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, […]
On Friday of last week I wrote an article about the YouTube / COPPA situation and how I felt like people may have been making a bigger deal out of it than they should. As it turns out, this is a case where I was very, very wrong. Let me explain that traditionally people have […]
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 […]
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 […]
Welcome to the year 2010! Well, at least 2010 for the Nerd! Yep, this was the first episode of The Angry Video Game Nerd for 2010. Still part of Season 4, sure, but the first new episode of a new year and, depending on who you ask, a new decade. The episode opens up by […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Here we have the “Holiday” episode for 2009. Recall that Castlevaniathon went into November, meaning December 2009 had the previous episode, Little Red Hood, and this episode, Winter Games. Yeah, no Bible games this time around, just some frosty Winter gaming enjoyment. Okay more like frozen Winter crap. What we have here is a game […]
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 […]