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As a lifelong pinballer, the only logic behind what you're experiencing is that Pinball Arcade simulates pristine flippers with factory fresh solenoids. Brand new solenoids can kick the ball around pretty wild (great for tables with ramps and rails, like most of the ones featured in Pinball Arcade) and they're harder… Read more

Zen Pinball is great and all if not-real-life pinball tables are your thing, but I will always prefer the brilliance of the amazingly simulated classics offered on Pinball Arcade. Read more

No no no, you're supposed to say "Kinect, shoot this guy!" otherwise voice recognition won't work. Read more

Yeah, I know, hence my concern about it cooking itself. It's got good space and ventilation on the sides and the back, but it does have a sliding glass door on the front that I keep closed when I'm not playing it. Read more

It's very good and while it has some room to grow/get better I agree they should have talked about it a bit more. You can launch just about anything that's a game or an app. You can't wake it up but you can shut it down or put it in standby with voice commands, and frankly, I'm glad you can't wake it up, because I… Read more

Apparently everybody reporting on this story has! Despite the lack of Goemon, that's actually a great film that has the spirit of Monkey Punch's comics and the early animated series going throughout. Read more

Damn straight Captain. So much of it is finger pointing and deriding without ever having picked up an OUYA controller and really, that's the worst kind of criticism. Read more

Instead of responding to every individual criticism of the OUYA, as an enthusiastic owner, I'll say this:

Unrelated to the BLOD but relevant, my 1.50 system software update and specifically the subsequent "The Playroom" software update somehow got mildly borked during download, installation or verification because it would crash with an error code every time I tried to start it. I booted to safe mode and ran a database… Read more

We know the game at this point. Early adopters certainly deserve to feel a modicum of frustration, but they (myself included, having participated in every hardware launch since the Atari 2600) know what they're getting into by buying on day one, there has never been a more informed core gaming audience and a louder… Read more

You believe that approximately 200.000 of the initial launch shipment of 1,000,000+ PS4s are going to have this problem out of the box? Read more

Well, you were asking for reasons why. What you want and what other people want may not always converge in agreement. Read more

Vita does not output to TV. PSP does not output to TV in 1080 HDMI. There are two reasons. Read more

They were doing it wrong or encountering difficulty that they wrote off without even attempting to fix. There are videos on YouTube of people successfully using Remote Play via an outside network with little to no issues. Read more

Fair enough. So it's not "second screen" if that's what they call the iOS/Android app. It is, from what I can gather from pre-review materials and online information "direct connection" and "other network". It looks like they're trying to use "direct connection" on an outside (other) network. Read more

It's not a "big" conclusion to jump to, it's how existing technology on PS3/PSP/Vita functions and what it is named. "Remote Play" from any wireless network, anywhere. Direct connection to the PS3 and play of select media. PS4's current FAQ indicates that remote play will function properly on a network outside of the… Read more

Even if it's all housed under the Link app on the Vita, it's not being used correctly. I'm not going to give that a pass if it's spreading misinformation via user error, accidental or not. Read more

"Second Screen" is what Jason apparently tested. That's the PS4 sending an an-hoc signal DIRECTLY to the Vita, much like a Wii-U. Obviously that's going to have a radius of functionality, just like the Wii-U. Obviously you won't be able to connect to your PS4 (or somebody elses) from work that way any more than you… Read more

THANK YOU! This is exactly what is occurring here and everybody is just accepting that "remote play" is being correctly defined. Kotaku needs to review this article, what things are being called and how the technology is actually supposed to work. Read more

For the "second screen" feature, yes, but "remote play" is on the PS3 (and I assume on the PS4) an entirely different type of connection technology than what is being described/detailed in this article. Read more