Reddit has shut down the most prominent Nintendo Switch emulation and piracy subreddit after its member count balloned over the last six weeks. As reported by PC Gamer, the 69,800 member subreddit was a leading forum to discuss the modding (and therefore pirating) of Nintendo Switch games. Perhaps due to …
Read More »Reddit CEO Plans to Pursue Changes to Company's Moderator Removal Policy
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman recently told NBC News he plans to update the company's moderator removal policy. Huffman explained the new changes would allow ordinary Redditors to easily vote out moderators if they make unpopular decisions in a subreddit. Under Reddit's current policy, there are four ways for a moderator …
Read More »Google Pixel 7a Review
Google’s Pixel smartphone family has always found ways to impress, and that’s perhaps never been more true than last year with the Pixel 7 line, which ranks among the best smartphones. It took what the Pixel 6 started and refined it in some crucial ways. However, with the Pixel 7 …
Read More »Sony Testing Cloud Streaming for 'Supported PS5 Games'
Sony announced today that it has begun testing cloud streaming for "supported PS5 games". In a new PlayStation Blog post, Nixk Maguire, VP of Global Services, Global Sales, and Business Ops at SIE, said the end goal for PlayStation is to make this "an additional benefit" to those subscribed to …
Read More »Phil Spencer Doesn't 'Feel an Imperative' to Release an Xbox with Major Upgrades Mid-Cycle
Xbox head Phil Spencer has said he "doesn't feel an imperative" to release a mid-cycle Xbox console upgrade, three years after the release of the Xbox Series X/S consoles. In an interview with Bloomberg, Spencer said of mid-cycle upgrades in the Xbox Series lineup of game consoles: "That's not the …
Read More »Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo, and Other Major Subreddits Go Dark
Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo, Star Wars, Cyberpunk 2077, and other major subreddits are going dark in protest against Reddit's API price changes affecting third-party apps. While visiting these subreddits previously would allow users to peruse all the usual conversations surrounding new reveals, highly contested topics, and so on, the Xbox, Nintendo, …
Read More »Certain PC Game Pass Games Will Soon be Playable on GeForce Now
Update 06/11/2023: An Xbox Wire post has clarified Sarah Bond's earlier comments, noting that "select" games will be available via GeForce Now rather than the entire catalog. "Today we shared that Game Pass members will soon be able to stream select PC games from the library through Nvidia GeForce Now," …
Read More »The Best Time to Buy a New TV at a Decent Price in 2023
TVs may be an investment, but they are one of the most used gadgets in your home. You don’t want to get some cheap screen with lackluster picture quality and a short lifespan just to save a few bucks. Instead, you should look for ways to spend less on the …
Read More »Logitech Axing the Blue Microphone Brand
Logitech is retiring the Blue Microphone brand and will continue to sell the microphones like the Yeti X under its Logitech G brand. 👋 gamers and creators! We have an update on our upcoming brand merger between Logitech G, @ASTROGaming, @BlueMicrophones and @logitechc! pic.twitter.com/qPPT36sJr6 — Logitech G (@LogitechG) June 8, …
Read More »Popular Reddit App Apollo Is Shutting Down on June 30
Update 06/09: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman kicked off his AMA today. Despite apps like Apollo shutting down, the company does not seem to be having a change odf heart on updating its API pricing policies. Apollo, one of the most popular third-party Reddit apps for iOS, will shut down at …
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