Ad Induced Twitch Amazon is considering making some changes to its Twitch tiers and their payout to streamers With some models not having changed in almost 10 years, pay cuts could be reduced by as much as 20% at the top tier Possibly the biggest change to come with these considerations is.. Ads!! Yes, who’s […]
Let Mom Sleep! Sega has started working on reboots of Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio In the company’s annual earnings report for the year ending March 2021, it named Jet Set Radio and Crazy Taxi as “examples of past IP” it wanted to utilize through reboots, remasters, and remakes. Other games were mentioned such […]
My Chemical Haptics Heat and cold (among other sensations) could be coming to VR sooner than we think Thanks to a team of scientists at the University of Chicago, feeling what your character feels may not be just another VR fantasy. Currently to fully immerse yourself in VR you would need to own devices such […]
Toss a coin for your imports The US has removed Tariffs on many imported goods from China Over 350 reinstated products have been added to a list of exclusions to American import tariffs that were put in place beginning in 2018 Most importantly for PC gamers, the list includes: Printed circuit assemblies for rendering images […]
ARM Amputation Even since the final “cut” was made in the Softbank/nVidia deal last month, ARM is having to make some severances Due to the $40B acquisition’s fall-through, ARM is cutting between 12-15% of its workforce to become one ARM. Yes puns, but those are their words. With a global workforce of ~6,500, most of […]
Vati Baer We’ve previously talked about the father of the video game cartridge here on SSH, but yesterday marked the would-be 100th birthday of the overall ‘vater’ of video games, Ralph Baer While we won’t go into an extensive history lesson, German born Ralph came to the US as a teenager and joined the National […]
Steam Muskchine Tesla is currently working on making the Steam library work in its vehicles’ onboard computers Tesla has been working with game studios to port games to it’s game platform called Tesla Arcade Elon Musk believes that “entertainment will be critical when cars drive themselves” and in preparation for that has been releasing more […]
To Trust or Antitrust The huge deal between Activision/Blizzard and Microsoft isn’t set to be completed for another year but the FTC might be heading up the investigation Lina Khan (Lee.Na), the FTC chair, has promised to be tougher on tech companies, most notably with Nvidia’s failed purchase of ARM The investigation could be focused […]
ARMonopoly Averted! Nvidia might be set to walk away from its deal with SoftBank’s chip manufacturer Arm (reported in news patch v11.17) Receiving opposition from almost everyone who uses the chip giants hardware, as well as investigations by the UK govt., means the deal may not close as anticipated. Nvidia claims the deal would not […]
Xbox Marks the Spot Microsoft purchases Activision Blizzard for $69 Billion This marks Microsoft’s second large purchase in under a year as they acquired Zenimax Media for $7.5 Billion in March of last year This deal is the company’s largest all cash deal on record, largest purchase in gaming history and will make them the […]