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VR Developer Direct – June 2025 June 10, 2025

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We are nearly wrapped up with all the major gaming preview shows for the season with today’s VR Developer Direct! Today, a massive preview of upcoming VR titles including Thief VR is coming up in just a matter of a few minutes! If you’re a VR gamer like me, or are interested in what games are coming to the platform over the next few months, you should totally give this video a watch!

WWDC 2025 Starts Today June 9, 2025

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The summer seminar season moves on! Today, Apple broadcasted this year’s WWDC! In it they showcased the new features coming to all of the devices they support, including iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro, and Mac!

If you want a closer look at everything that you can expect to come to your Apple Device…including some new gaming features for Mac. So, make sure to give the video below a watch!

Xbox Games Showcase 2025 June 8, 2025

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The next major first-party event to continue in a line of this year’s summer game showcase has just concluded streaming. Today, Microsoft has held their highly-anticipated Xbox Games Showcase and we’re going to see for ourselves what games they will be offering to us on their (currently) last place platform.

If you missed the event or just want to rewatch it, you can check out the official 4K 60 frame feed below!

Women Led Games Showcase June 8, 2025

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The summer game season continues and yesterday an exclusive gaming preview event took place focused on upcoming games by women-driven studios. If you missed it you can watch the whole official stream below!

There are some really cool looking independent titles showcased for multiple platforms including PC, and some of the games showcased have full demos you can download right now through Steam!

Summer Game Fest 2025 June 7, 2025

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Last night, Summer Games Fest 2025 was broadcasted in glorious 4K at 60 frames. Since the fall of E3, this event has stepped up to be the definitive summer showcase of new game previews! In it, we got a closer look at all of this year’s upcoming games from independent developers and publishers.

There were some major announcements, as well as new previews of anticipated games. If you happened to miss the event, or just want to rewatch it, you can check out the official 4K feed below! Enjoy!

Nintendo Switch 2 Launched Today June 5, 2025

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Nintendo fans of all walks of life, hear me! The next generation Nintendo console has just been released!

For a price of $449US, Nintendo Switch 2 is capable of playing selected Switch titles at improved graphics and performance, on top of its own exclusive games and titles, the most anticipated of which is Mario Kart World.

Lifeline 2 Updated With New Engine/Improved Apple Watch Integration June 5, 2025

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If you own an Apple Watch and an iPhone I want you to close this browser window right now, open the App Store and immediately purchase a game called Lifeline. It is a wonderful combination of a choose your own adventure game and an alternate reality game, where you try to help someone through a supernatural situation.

The thing I appreciated most of all about the games was its seamless progress integration between my Watch and my iPhone. So if I had to wait for an event to transpire, my Watch could notify me of the event, and present me the chance to respond to it on the spot, as opposed to having to bring up my phone every time I wanted to respond. However, I later discovered this integration was not completely seamless on all the sequel and spin-off games of the Lifeline franchise! At the time of my ownership of an Apple Watch, only the original Lifeline had this functionality, but support for it was later added for Lifeline: Silent Night.

Late yesterday, the App Store released an update for Lifeline 2, where they announced they have ported the game to their improved engine, bringing with it the improved integration features that made the first game so incredible.

Lifeline 2 is out now for iOS and Apple Watch.

PlayStation State of Play 6-4-2025 June 4, 2025

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Rejoice! The summer game announcement season is upon us! To kick off one of the most packed announcement events I’ve ever seen, Sony has just streamed their highly-anticipated State of Play, where we can catch some important reveals for upcoming PS5 games! If you missed it, you can give it a watch below:

All games previewed will be coming to the PS5.

Gaming History You Should Know – What Happened to the World’s Biggest CRT TV May 26, 2025

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It’s Sunday and you know what that means? Time for a new Gaming History You Should Know, where we highlight some of the best independently-produced documentaries from across the web. Today, we’re going to be talking about an obsolete technology that was a major component of all gamer’s lives….up until the mid-to-late 2000s, the CRT television.

Growing up, a CRT was all we had to view any kind of video content, whether it was television, video games, or movies. I have to admit, with the exception of using them for PC monitors, I HATED them. They were HEAVY, and there was no way to minimize its weight if you had a larger model. In all likelihood once you had a CRT placed in your space, it would stay there for the entire lifespan of your home. Nobody wanted to move these things. However, there were a lot of good about CRTs. They had a nearly perfect response rate that would make even the lowest latency flat-panel monitor blush. Game developers of its time also took its interlacing functions into account, which is why many older games look better on them than they do on newer non-interlaced HDTVs.

When I was growing up, we didn’t have a BIG CRT because they just didn’t exist. Most televisions that advertised themselves as “BIG” were actually rear projection, which while they were indeed big, suffered from a poorer image quality than CRT and also posed the constant risk of image burn. However, for a very long time, there has been a mythical Holy Grail of CRTs, a BIG CRT capable of EDTV input over composite made by Sony. However, only one picture of the BIG TV existed in the wild, and nobody was totally sure if it was legit.

Was this CRT real, and if it was, does it still exist? Well, the guys over at the YouTube Channel Shank Mods did a fantastic documentary about this mythical CRT, and their attempt to recover it. Let’s find out how they did!

VR Game PROJECT MIX Kickstarter Launched May 22, 2025

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A promising Virtual Reality game which offers you the chance to play a bartender in a cyberpunk-inspired future has just entered its kickstarter, and I wanted to tell everyone about it!

PROJECT MIX is a virtual-reality story-based interactive visual novel, where you play as a bartender in a cyberpunk future. Your job is not just to make your customers happy, but your bosses and peers as well. Everyone seems to have their own agendas. The game has just offered a request for funding on Kickstarter, and if you want to give the game a closer look, you can check out their Kickstarter right here.

As of the time of this article being posted, the game has already met its funding goal and exceeded one of its promised stretch goals. Many more stretch goals still have yet to be funded, but (if reached) they promise it can bring new features to the game such as additional original music tracks, a flat version of the game that does not require VR, or a scene set at the beach!

Project Mix currently has a demo out for PCVR on Steam if you want to check it out now. The developers said they will also be targeting a Quest 3 release.