Talking Point

The year 2018 is looking to feel like the early 80’s and 90’s all over again! With Sega Genesis looking to drop another mini retro console this year. Atari announcing their comeback console in 2017 and the second round of the Nes mini coming back in the summer of 2018. …

Here at Hackinformer we strive to get in on the ground floor of companies and people with great ideas. One such idea is what Super Rare Games is executing on. They’re working to release indie and lower budget eShop titles as physical content for the Switch. Some companies rerelease boxed …

Since the successful launch of PS1 and the PS2, I longed for the time that Sony would release a handheld gaming system. My dreams were finally answered in 2005. Sony jumped on the bandwagon and released their handheld, the PSP! I remember it like it was yesterday, it was love …

The movie theater business has surely been heating up as of late, with Marvel studios leading the pack with blockbuster movies such as the Black Panther and the upcoming Avengers Infinity war. The movie theater business has been more popular than ever, then again it certainly been a challenge for …

Every console scene has it’s fair share of troublemakers and fake posts that don’t help anyone. Most of the time they claim to have something that they don’t or make up total fake guides/tutorials on how to do something with fake download links. By now most of us are very …

Every year Naka-Kon takes place in the Midwest and is known far and wide as the go-to Japanese and Anime convention. People come from all over the place to meet up, see panels, participate in the cosplay competition, see live music, all in the name of Japanese culture. This year, naturally, …

The Nintendo Switch is getting a new FW update to 5.0.0 and its already getting pushed out, even their US & Japan website has been updated with FW 5.0.0 info. Now the push hasn’t hit the Switch just yet even though their site and the update bots, are seeing one. Sysupdate detected for …

PS4 FW5.50 just got released this week and a few weeks before its official release we got a new Public Webkit exploit that worked on FW5.xx and even the beta FW of 5.50, but it wasn’t the easier to get working every time like FW5.01 or 5.05. With the official release of …

A few days ago we talked about a project dubbed Atmosphere-NX on Github for the Nintendo Switch, which it’s basically the start of CFW for the Nintendo Switch. Now developer SciresM, is the one mainly focusing on this project for the Switch and many other talented devs are helping him along the way. Since …

Recently, if you remember, I made an article about RetroGamingArts and their site being a good place to buy modchips in 2018. Well, I thought I would do it again, this time with flash carts. Stone Age Gamer sent me a set of BitBox cases, a Powerbase miniFM, and an …

Pixel Girl is a streamer across the pond in the UK who, every year has a 24 hour streaming marathon of gaming. 2018 will be no different for her as she does this for charity to help out others. We’re putting up this article to raise awareness for her great …

Every year Planet Comicon is touted as the premier nerdy convention of the center of the US. You might think that that’s not a big deal, but they get big names every year and it generally is a good time! Was this year any worse or better? Did it feel …