Navigating Nostalgia: Why Old Games Matter in a Rapidly Evolving Tech Landscape

PC World reported last week that nVidia’s newest GPUs are having a problem playing games from the early 2000s that use the PhysX API. While I agree with the author’s main takeaway, that this is not the ELE that many YouTubers proclaim it to be, it did make me reminisce about how much I playContinue reading “Navigating Nostalgia: Why Old Games Matter in a Rapidly Evolving Tech Landscape”

“Anticipation and Uncertainty: The Countdown to the Nintendo Switch 2 Launch”

The excitement for a new console. There isn’t much anything quite like it. I’ve only nabbed a few precious machines on actual launch day in my almost 50+ years of gaming. I stood in line for the Nintendo Wii and walked away with one in my proud hands on launch day. It was at aContinue reading ““Anticipation and Uncertainty: The Countdown to the Nintendo Switch 2 Launch””

The Smartphone Market is all the Proof You Need that Consolidation Stifles Innovation

On Friday, Extreme Tech reported that “Someone Found Essential’s Super-Skinny Canceled Android Phone on eBay”, and it reminded me of a conversation we had just had on the most recent episode of the Basement Radio Arcade Podcast. We were discussing market consolidation, and the difficulties in the notion of taking mainstream gaming…FPS’s, RTS’, JRPGs….and movingContinue reading “The Smartphone Market is all the Proof You Need that Consolidation Stifles Innovation”