Month: February 2021
Musicians are making funky remixes of the Wii’s Mii Channel song, and they slap
While the Nintendo Wii might be most famous for ushering in an era of motion-based controls for console games, one of its most lasting legacies is the fantastic music in some of its system apps. Remember the Wii Shop Channel song? It’s still so good. And over the past day,…
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Qualcomm’s new partnership aims to improve haptic feedback on Android devices
Haptic feedback on Android phones running the Snapdragon 888 chipset might get noticeably better starting in the second half of 2021. Qualcomm recently announced (via 9to5Google) that it’s working independently with a company called Lofelt to enhance haptics through software, not hardware. That initially read as a puzzling decision, since…
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Xbox Series X could give Xbox 360 and original Xbox games a renaissance Xbox 360
Microsoft’s new FPS Boost feature on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S has the potential to quadruple the framerate of older games without any input from developers – and it could be used to improve Xbox 360 and original Xbox games. Xbox director of program management Jason Ronald revealed…
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Days Gone is coming to PC, and more PlayStation exclusives are on the way Deacon St. John on a motorbike
Even more PlayStation exclusive games are reportedly coming to PC starting with Days Gone sometime in early 2021. PlayStation President and CEO Jim Ryan shared the announcement as part of an interview with GQ, where he also revealed that a new PSVR headset is on the way. Ryan’s announcement was…
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Join us for a live event about tech regulation
The most powerful companies on the internet have never been less popular in Washington, and industry-wide regulation has never seemed to close. So on March 1st at 2PM ET. The Verge is hosting a event about regulating the internet — from antitrust to privacy to the many proposals for changing…
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Area 120 is beginning to use Google’s massive reach to scale HTML5 GameSnacks platform
Hundreds of millions of users, especially in developing markets, don’t own high-end smartphones and can’t afford fast data plans to enjoy much of anything on the web. Google has been exploring multiple ways to better serve this segment of the user base. It has tried partnerships to make the internet…
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