Xbox Live Gold Annual Is No More

Xbox Series X Boot Animation

Reading Time: 2 minutesIts been a good run, but it looks like big changes could be coming to Microsoft Xbox’s various subscription services. The first victim? The Xbox Live Gold program. The first sacrifice made to the digital services gods? The 12-month Xbox Live Gold Annual membership. We learned initially vie a tweet by @gamespot today that it …

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Madden NFL 21 to Remove Redskins Name and Logo

EA to release day one patch to remove Washington Redskins name and logo

Reading Time: < 1 minuteFollowing pressure from corporate sponsors, the NFL team, the Washington Redskins have announced that they are in search of a new name and logo, according to the NY Times, due to its racist connotations. This has been brought up over the years many times but it finally came to a head this past Monday. Madden …

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Paper Mario: The Origami King First Impressions

Reading Time: 2 minutesPaper Mario: The Origami King is now available for the Nintendo Switch. You can read our announcement that includes some screenshots and the trailer here. After spending quite a few hours playing, I got a decent feel for the game. While I am in no way ready to give a full review of the title, …

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Microsoft Flight Simulator Coming on 10 Disc Box Set

Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you are among the older readers in the crowd, then you, no doubt, have fond memories of acquiring (ehem, “buying”) new games or programs to use or play on a home PC/Mac. Legitimately obtained (or not), you brought that game home, (like Flight Simulator) and then had to engage in the time-consuming task of …

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Project xCloud Coming September

E3 2019 Announced Project xCloud

Reading Time: < 1 minuteProject xCloud has been in beta for quite some time, and appears to be ready for the main-stream this September. If you’re not familiar with Project xCloud, this is Microsoft’s game streaming service that enables players to play Xbox games anywhere you go, and across a variety of devices. Today, Microsoft finally announced pricing for …

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Survive the Zombie Apocalypse in Dead Age 2

Reading Time: 2 minutesSurvive the zombie apocalypse. That’s Dead Age 2, the second installment in this turn-based zombie apocalypse survival series, which launched July 16th for the PC, Mac and Linux. Dead Age 2, from game publisher Headup Games and the developers at Silent Dreams, puts players in control of a band of survivors who are fleeing from …

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NES Repair – Replacing ZIF Connector – Did it work?

Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter many years, I finally got my hands on a Nintendo Entertainment System but alas it does not work. Sadly, this console is more brick like than the official LEGO Nintendo Entertainment System. This NES, being 35 years old, has been plagued with the blinking red light error. This error are a multitude of reasons …

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Marvel’s Avengers Beta Coming In August

Reading Time: 2 minutesSquare Enix announced today it will be holding its second Avenger’s War Table digital stream on July 29th, where it will be giving an in-depth look at the upcoming Marvel’s Avengers Beta coming in August. The fist War Table event, which was held in June, gave an detailed look at the story line and features …

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Nintendo Switch NES Controllers “Review” (Updated)

Reading Time: 3 minutesMany of us remember opening the Nintendo Entertainment System, loading Super Mario Bros and hearing that iconic theme song for the very first time. Little did we know, this would be the beginning for of an age for gamers. Fortunately there are many different ways to play these old school school games, some officially sanctioned; …

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Stadia Connect Event Talks New Titles, Instant Play

Google Stadia

Reading Time: 3 minutesStadia held its Stadia Connect event today, revealing some of the latest titles to be brought to the Stadia Pro gaming service, adding to its growing collection of “free” games. Stadia, a gaming subscription service from Google, brings dozens of popular gaming titles to members for a $9.99 / month service fee. In addition to …

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