QUOTE | “It was just good to talk about in 2013/2014. It is less relevant now. We have VR to talk about now, for example.” - Sony’s global head of sales and marketing Jim Ryan explains why the company’s E3 press conference lacked the indie presence the company had previously made a selling point of the PS4.
Once you start carrying your beverages in vacuum-insulated stainless steel, you’ll never want to go back. Today only on Amazon, you can save big on Alpha Armur double-walled steel bottles in a variety of sizes and colors, all of which will keep drinks hot or cold all day long.
One of the best-preserved streets in Kyoto is Ninen-zaka. A Starbucks just opened in the area, but you could walk by and not even know it.
This is Masao Gunji. For the past 35 years, he has been collecting Hello Kitty stuff. He has amused the largest collection of its kind.
Japanese wedding magazine Zexy is including a Pikachu-themed marriage form for people to fill out. They can then take it to City Hall and get hitched.
The market is littered with beautiful, minimal laptop stands from accessory design shops, but no matter how much you love yours, there’s no guarantee that your next laptop will fit properly. That’s where the iQunix Edin comes in.
If you thought Paradox’s grand strategy game Stellaris sounded very Star Trekky with its big alien alliances and deep space exploration, you are not alone.
Attendees walking in with badges obscured. Security declining to approach an injured show-goer. Robberies, one allegedly carried out by security guards. No metal detectors, no bag checks. E3 2017, by many accounts, had significant issues with crowd control and security.
Ubisoft’s Skull & Bones looked good at E3, but boy, this concept art for the game is looking real good.
Amazon’s jerky sample box, Schlage door knobs, and a 3TB external drive lead off Friday’s best deals from around the web.
The weekend is for Luke Plunkett reminding you that you can finish the story in The Witcher 3 but still have more Witcher to play, so you should just do that already.
A-Kon, a convention in Texas that attracts over 30,000 fans, was held between June 8-11 at the Fort Worth Convention Centre. Here’s some of the best cosplay in attendance.
Our beautiful, splashy fish son can now occasionally be found as a boss fight in Pokémon Go.
Primal battles in Final Fantasy XIV are massive spectacles that pit a group of players against powerful creatures that usually show up in the series as summons. Stormblood’s first primal, Susano, gets more massive than most, but a well-coordinated group can take him down pretty easy.
Evader is a twin stick arcade game full of bursty voxel explosions and a trippy techno beat. There aren’t any bullets to fire—instead, players blow up baddies with two dots connected by a laser beam. It’s challenging and a lot of fun, which makes it a perfect Indie Pick.
When you’re not playing games, the Xbox One is also a pretty great set-top streaming box. The only problem? The gamepad takes a few seconds to wake up, which can be really annoying when you just want to pause a movie.
Pokémon Go’s big gym overhaul hasn’t been live for very long, but many players already dislike some of the new mechanics.
Last year, Activision included a remastered version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare with every high-end copy of Infinite Warfare. But lots of people wanted to buy Modern Warfare separately, and now that’s finally an option—for forty bucks.
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