While people aren’t shy about withholding their thoughts on Chris Pratt’s role as Mario, we should no longer tolerate the bullying behavior of people who do not agree with things assume…

"Nintendo’s strength is in creating new video game experiences"

Hell is June-bound for Diablo 4, quite possibly.

Polygon spoke with Shigeru Miyamoto and Shinya Takahashi about bringing the park to life

Popular Minecraft YouTuber Dream revealed his face behind the mask, prompting mixed reactions.

Put that on a list of things not to do, ever.

A few bright spots can't illuminate what was a pretty grey year overall for Xbox.

Happy Thursday.

According to Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer, Microsoft is selling Xbox Series X|S consoles at a hefty loss of up to $200, though that loss could be reduced next year.

Modder ‘XilaMonstrr’ has released a new 4K AI-enhanced Texture Pack for Cyberpunk 2077. According to its description, this pack will overhaul the body skin of all male and female characters (including NPCs). Do note that this pack does not overhaul the textures of clothes or armor. As the title implies, it only improves the quality of the textures for bodies. In other words, you can appreciate these new textures in naked characters.

Meta's push to put computing into a headset will end in tears

The next project by Naughty Dog and Neil Druckmann continues to be shrouded in mystery, which according to the latest rumors may not be so surprising: according to a reliable insider, The Last of Us Part III is in fact currently already in the works. Check out the complete details below.

The metaverse is predicted to be $5 trillion in value by 2030 as per leading analysts McKinsey & Co.’s new research. These figures show that the metaverse may be just too big to ignore. Experts agree that the metaverse will influence the business ecosystem and leave imprints on all sectors.

No dice.

Google is shutting down its video game streaming service, Stadia, on January 18th, 2023, the company announced today. All purchases will be refunded and the technology will still be used for YouTube and other parts of its business, but the consumer-facing app and storefront will be shuttered for good less than five years after it launched, joining the graveyard of other projects Google has abandoned.

In November 2021, Facebook announced it would delete face recognition data extracted from images of more than 1 billion people and stop offering to automatically tag people in photos and videos. Luke Stark, an assistant professor at Western University, in Canada, told WIRED at the time that he considered the policy change a PR tactic because the company’s VR push would likely lead to the expanded collection of physiological data and raise new privacy concerns.

Reportedly, NVIDIA was developing an even more powerful version of the GeForce RTX 4090. Billed as the Titan Ada or the RTX 4090 Ti, the graphics card is thought to be a whopping four slots thick and requires twin 16-pin power connectors. Supposedly, NVIDIA has ceased development though, with multiple reasons spelling the end of the Titan Ada for now.

Nvidia is pausing the launch of its upcoming 12GB RTX 4080 graphics card. After originally unveiling the 12GB RTX 4080 last month alongside a much more powerful 16GB model, Nvidia now admits it messed up with the naming. “The RTX 4080 12GB is a fantastic graphics card, but it’s not named right,” says Nvidia in a blog post. “Having two GPUs with the 4080 designation is confusing.”

Plus: How Mark Zuckerberg fell in love with VR, the fake future of documentaries, and Armageddon.