video game consoles
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New Cloud Technology Warns You When Not To Play Kingdom Hearts
Once, long ago, buying and playing a video game was pretty easy. You bought the disc or cart, stuck it in the console, and hit play. Not so much anymore. Case in point: The not-so-great cloud-streaming-only versions of Kingdom Hearts released on Switch earlier this year recently got an update, and now feature a warning…
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Nintendo Still Silent On Workplace Allegations Despite Acknowledging Them Internally
It’s been nearly a month since a former employee filed a National Labour Relations Board complaint against Nintendo alleging surveillance, coercion, and retaliation. Outside of an initial statement denying the company engaged in union-busting, the house of Mario has remained publicly silent in the face of an increasing number of allegations of bad working conditions…
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How To Fix A PS4 That Won’t Read Discs
The PS5 might be Sony’s shiny new console, but plenty of us are still happily playing our PS4s. That is, unless the system can’t read our discs. It’s a little more than frustrating when the PS4 refuses to play the $US60 ($83) game you just popped in the disc drive. If you’re experiencing this issue,…
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Sony Bets New PS5 Stock On A Post-COVID World (Whenever That Happens)
We’re over a year into the PlayStation 5’s lifecycle and Sony still can’t make anywhere near enough of them. It hopes that could change soon. The company is promising to sell 18 million more PS5s in the next year if the current covid lockdown in China only lasts a couple of months. With the global…