A daily dose of what’s up in the tech world

Daily tech news & jokes to have a good start for 09/10/2022

Quote of the day:

Start doing things to make you happy. Reyna Biddy

Jokes of the day:

What do you call two barracuda fish? A Pairacuda!

If Bill Gates had a dime for every time Windows crashed … Oh wait, he does.

Top 10 news of the day:

System Shock Remake is (hopefully) coming in March 2023

It looks like the long-awaited System Shock remake will finally release on Steam in March 2023. Though not formally con…

It looks like the long-awaited System Shock remake will finally release on Steam in March 2023. Though not formally confirmed by the developer Nightdive Studios, Steam has updated the game’s store listing to reveal a March 2023 release date and pre-o… [1690 chars]

Persona 3 Portable and Persona Golden 4 are coming to “modern” platforms in January 2023

Persona 3 Portable and Persona Golden 4 are coming to “modern” platforms next year. Although we already knew that the p…

Persona 3 Portable and Persona Golden 4 are coming to “modern” platforms next year. Although we already knew that the ports were on the way, we finally have a firm release date; in a tweet posted to Twitter earlier today, publisher Atlus revealed tha… [1360 chars]

Persona 3 Portable & Persona 4 Golden Arrive On Nintendo Switch January 2023

Will follow Persona 5 Royal — Ahead of the launch of Persona 5 Royal later this month on the Nintendo Switch, Atlus has an…

Ahead of the launch of Persona 5 Royal later this month on the Nintendo Switch, Atlus has announced it will be bringing the third and fourth game to the Nintendo Switch and multiple other platforms early next year. Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Go… [550 chars]

Gotham Knights’ PS5 Platinum Will Keep You Busy

More than a long weekend — Gotham Knights’ Trophy list has emerged ahead of the game’s release later in the month, and…

Gotham Knights’ Trophy list has emerged ahead of the game’s release later in the month, and while it looks achievable — well, expect to be spending a lot of time on the titular city’s drizzly streets. You’ll unlock a chunk of gongs simply for playing… [705 chars]

Google is keeping some of Android’s best features behind a Pixel paywall

The Pixel 7 event was a list of features that should have been part of Android 13

Google is a strange company. It’s not really a hardware manufacturer, and it’s not a simple software company, either. Sometimes it seems like a testing center for machine learning algorithms. Really though, it’s an odd mixture of all of the above. It… [5429 chars]

Professor Layton And The Lost Franchise: Where Did The Beloved Puzzle Series Go?

This reminds me of a puzzle… — From the late 2000s to the mid-2010s, my gaming experience was all about learning to beco…

From the late 2000s to the mid-2010s, my gaming experience was all about learning to become a gentleman. This was a central topic which ran throughout the Professor Layton series. If Professor Hershel Layton wore a trench coat, I wore a trench coat; … [8903 chars]

Are expensive Pro controllers like the Xbox Elite Series 2 really worth it?

You may have been tempted to buy a ‘Pro’ controller like the Xbox Elite Series 2, but who are they really for?

Since the success of the original Xbox Elite controller, we’ve seen no shortage of first and third-party manufacturers try their hand at crafting the perfect ‘Pro’ pad. The Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 is a few years old but is still broad… [5302 chars]

Google Pixel Watch

The Pixel Watch features a 294 mAh battery that’s rated for 24 hours, with Google using a number of software features to save battery life…

The Pixel Watch has a 294 mAh (typical) battery that’s officially rated for “up to 24 hours,” with Google employing a number of software features to save battery life. To protect and “extend battery life,” the Pixel Watch will pause charging if the W… [2186 chars]

Steam Deck promotional video removed after it accidentally showed off a Switch emulator

Valve has deleted a Steam Deck promotional video — which, at the time of writing, can still be viewed embedded in this …

Valve has deleted a Steam Deck promotional video — which, at the time of writing, can still be viewed embedded in this story — after eagle-eyed viewers spotted a Nintendo Switch emulator lurking in the library. Yuzu is open-source and, crucially, leg… [1515 chars]

Silent Hill movie director confirms Bloober’s Silent Hill 2 Remake and “several” other games

Another day, another Silent Hill story: this one purports, yet again, that there are “several teams” working on “severa…

Another day, another Silent Hill story: this one purports, yet again, that there are “several teams” working on “several games”, including “the Silent Team” who were around when the first Silent Hill film was made in 2006. Christophe Gans, the direct… [3959 chars]