Category Archives: Metal Jesus Likes

HDMI Switch, Splitter and Extractor Reviews & Shootout

Here’s a shootout of a bunch of HDMI splitters, switches and audio extractors I’ve been using. They’re all zero-lag devices (even in downscaling modes!) and appear to work well with retro gaming devices, including the OSSC. The first “reviews” are the longest, as they explain everything you need to know about these devices, then the rest reference those.

The Ouya is still alive…in 2022 | MVG

 

The Ouya released in 2013 and was hyped as a disrupter to the video game industry. After a successful Kickstarter campaign, it famously was discontinued by 2015 due to lack of sales and an underwhelming catalog of good games. It was labelled as a failure and with it, its Ouya storefront was shutdown in 2019 reducing the micro console to a mere paperweight. But a community of passionate Ouya fans have kept the console alive thanks to a homebrew Ouya API replacement. In this episode we dust on my old Ouya from 2013 and bring it back to life once again in 2022!

Breaking and Making Assassins Creed Valhalla | Walking the Walk | Long Review Series Part 1 of 4

Walking the Walk Assassins Creed Valhalla is Karak’s way of walking through a game and finding elements that help make the world and what in that world is done well.

Make it or break it, the AC games are huge open worlds so this is Part 1 critique Making and Breaking Assassins Creed Valhalla – Walking the Walk Critique Series will walk through valhalla with ACG and discuss what makes good games, the art, the design, the technical elements, the open world design, color use, and more.