No one is suggesting that Microsoft should stop making video game hardware. What we’ve been considering, here in the dark and twisted Engadget Slack channels, is whether Microsoft should keep making generationally distinct consoles in the traditional …
Continue reading "Let’s talk about Xbox | This week’s gaming news"The little console that could, Playdate, is getting a developer’s showcase on February 28 at 12PM ET. Manufacturer Panic promises a 14-minute presentation chock full of new games that may or may not make use of the console’s weird little crank.
We only…
It's been a big few months for fighting games between the likes of Mortal Kombat 1, Street Fighter 6 and Tekken 8 all popping up. There's another would-be major player sitting in the wings though, as Riot is preparing to enter the fray. The pub…
Continue reading "Riot’s Project L fighting game is officially titled 2XKO"Sony is looking to make its latest PlayStation virtual reality headset more useful by allowing folks to run PC games on it. The company said that it’s “currently testing the ability for PS VR2 players to access additional games on PC to offer even more…
Continue reading "Sony is working on official PC support for the PS VR2"NVIDIA is testing out a new unified app that lets users adjust GPU settings, install software and fine-tune gameplay, all from the same place. Currently, you have to access the dated Control Panel app and do some heavy menu diving to do stuff like conf…
Continue reading "NVIDIA is testing an app that unifies GeForce Experience and Control Panel"I’m not sure if there’s a good way to name the second part of a trilogy of games based on an original title that’s the seventh in a series of games. But this one is called Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.
Rebirth takes the characters and world reintroduced wit…
Gaming laptops are the true Transformers of the PC world: They’re powerful enough to play your favorite titles, but you can also harness their speed for media creation or extreme multitasking, like streaming high-resolution gameplay to Twitch. These da…
Continue reading "The best gaming laptops for 2024"One of the worst-kept secrets in gaming is now official. Former Xbox exclusive Hi-Fi Rush is coming to PS5 on March 19. Many expected the announcement to come during Wednesday’s Nintendo Direct, which focused on third-party games, but Bethesda confirme…
Continue reading "Xbox’s Hi-Fi Rush is coming to PS5 on March 19"Thanks to today’s Nintendo Direct focused on third-party games, we now know the identity of two of the four Xbox titles that Microsoft pledged to release on “the other consoles.” One of them is Pentiment, which is coming to Nintendo Switch, PS4 and PS5…
Continue reading "Former Xbox exclusive Pentiment is coming to Switch on February 22"Nintendo's about to kick off its first event of the year with the Direct Partner Showcase focused on upcoming third-party games for Switch. We could see the first news about Xbox titles like Pentiment coming to other platforms and maybe, hopefully …
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