Half-Life 2 Will Soon Be Playable In VR
11.8.2022
After years in development, and loads of ups and downs along the way, the developers of a virtual reality mod for the original Half-Life 2 have announced a public beta that’ll be kicking off next month.Read more
Very Bad Forspoken Ad Gets Absolutely Roasted
11.8.2022
Earlier this week the marketing team behind Square Enix’s upcoming action game Forspoken posted a Tweet with a few sales bullet points and a short gameplay video. It should have been a very normal and forgettable exercise in video game promotion, but readers, I am here to tell you that this video...
Podávat žaloby je dobrý byznys, tvrdí autoři populární videohry
11.8.2022
Společnost Bungie, která provozuje střílečku Destiny 2, v posledních měsících podala sérii žalob, v nichž požaduje mnohamilionová odškodnění. Právní poradce společnosti Don McGowan v rozhovoru pro magazín Axios bez okolků přiznal, že se jim tento nekompromisní způsob boje proti nechtěným členům...
$30 Humble Bundle Bags You A Shitton Of Resident Evil Games
10.8.2022
Sometimes Humble Bundle just comes along with virtually an entire franchise of games for the cost of less than one, making it hard to avoid the siren’s song of that “purchase” link. Today, with Humble’s “Decades of Horror” bundle, that franchise is Capcom’s Resident Evil. How would you like to...
Is your game built for 'main'-ing, trending, or sampling?
10.8.2022
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Now You Can Play Stray From The Cat's Purr-Spective
10.8.2022
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Activision Pulls Cute But Stolen Call Of Duty Skin, Apologizes For ‘Misstep’
10.8.2022
Call of Duty, the first-person shooter once based on historical events, is pulling a very ahistorical skin after a concept artist accused the game’s publisher of plagiarizing a design of theirs. Hilarious and cute, the new skin featured an anthropomorphized samoyed doggo, armed and ready to murder...
Nintendo Faces A Second Labor Complaint Amid Worker Frustrations
10.8.2022
A new labor complaint has been filed with the National Labor Relations Board against Nintendo and contract hiring agency Aston Carter. The second complaint this year, it accuses the Mario publisher of interfering with “concerted activities” of workers, including possible retaliation and coercion....
Piccolo Is Black: A Memoir of Race, Religion, And Pop Culture Effortlessly Shines A Light On Black Nerd Experience
10.8.2022
When I was a child, I excitedly anticipated the commute my mom and I took every Sunday to our humble Black Lutheran church in Cabrini Green. But what excited me wasn’t hearing the children’s sermons from our youth pastor or the potluck lunches that followed morning service. My excitement came from...
Only A Computer Could Do This Super Mario Bros. Trick—Until Now
10.8.2022
The Super Mario Bros. speedrunning community is constantly looking for new ways to push the state of the art, and one player just achieved what was previously thought of as an impossible feat…at least for a human.Read more
Popular Trans Twitch Streamer Keffals Arrested After 'Traumatizing' Swatting Incident
10.8.2022
Clara “Keffals” Sorrenti, a trans streamer and political commentator, was arrested by Canadian police last week after a swatting incident. Keffals was left rattled, saying in a YouTube video recounting the event that the police terrorized her and locked her out of her accounts because she’s “still...
The PS Plus Library Keeps Getting Bigger—And Keeps Forgetting The Classics
10.8.2022
Following a ballyhooed June relaunch, Sony’s PS Plus membership now comes with access to a games-on-demand library (well, if you pay for either of the two pricier tiers). Like Microsoft’s competing Xbox Game Pass service, PS Plus is starting to see a regular addition of several games on a monthly...