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Fortnite Boss Slams Billionaire Tax He Doesn't Seem To Fully Understand
28.10.2021
Surprise, surprise, Epic Games founder, Tim Sweeney, is not a fan of the new billionaire tax being proposed in Congress at the moment. The CEO of the company, which prints money thanks to Fortnite, said the tax would possibly “end founder control” of Epic Games, calling into question whether...
Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack Would Be A Terrible Deal, Even If It Worked Properly
26.10.2021
As Nintendo’s roll-out of the upgraded Nintendo Switch Online goes so very poorly, there’s a bigger question hovering over it all: even if it had launched with working controllers, functioning control schemes, and no input lag, would it be worth the price? And the answer is, from pretty much...
Intel Says CPU And GPU Shortages May Last Until 2023
24.10.2021
Bad news to folks out there trying to get a new console like the PS5 or a fancy, more powerful graphics card for their aging PC. According to Intel, the ongoing semiconductor shortage will continue to make it hard to find and buy new electronics well into 2023. Read more
The Week In Games: Time To Buy Resident Evil 4 (Again)
18.10.2021
One day, I’ll no longer walk this planet. I’ll be dust in history. But until then, I’ll be buying Resident Evil 4 over and over and over... Well, you get the idea. And now with a VR version of the classic game hitting Oculus Quest later this week, I’ll be buying it again.Read more
Bitcoin Is Now World’s 8th Most Valuable Asset — BTC Now Targets Silver’s $1.31T Market Cap
15.10.2021
The price of bitcoin had crossed the $60K zone at 1:30 a.m. (EST) early Friday morning. The leading crypto asset’s latest price jump has made it so bitcoin’s overall market valuation of $1.119 trillion has surpassed Facebook’s market capitalization. The digital asset is also...
Here's Why Twitch's Giant Internal Leak Is Inundated With The Word 'Pizza'
14.10.2021
Last week Twitch suffered a massive hack. Roughly 125GB of data was leaked online, including source code and top streamer earnings, as well as a bunch of files with bizarre references to pizza. Why? Twitch suffered another major hack back in 2014 and code-named the response to it “Urgent...
Apparently Walmart Is Now The Most Annoying Place To Buy A PS5
14.10.2021
Recently, Kotaku’s emails have been inundated with tips from fans claiming Walmart is an egregiously horrible place to buy a PlayStation 5. And when we looked closer, it seemed like the wider internet beyond our inboxes agreed Walmart is a bad experience for next-gen consoles. Read more
New World Server Transfers Delayed, Previously Promised Cross-Realm Moves ‘Not Possible’
11.10.2021
During the mad rush to play Amazon’s massively multiplayer RPG New World during launch week, its developers told players not to worry about which of the game’s crowded servers they chose to play on, as free transfers were on the way. Not only have those free server transfers been delayed,...
Jeff Bezos Gets Plastered All Over Twitch Post Leak
9.10.2021
Just days after Twitch suffered a giant security breach leaking over 125GB of data, the face of Amazon founder and chairman, Jeff Bezos, was seen trolling several of the streaming platform’s game directory pages. How it got there, or why, remains a mystery.Read more
Twitch Says 'Malicious Third Party' Was Behind Hack
7.10.2021
Twitch has just issued an update after yesterday’s major attack on the service, which resulted in the theft and then public posting of, among other things, the platform’s source code. According to their ongoing investigation, a “a malicious third party” is responsible.Read more
Only Three Percent of Twitch’s Top-Earning Streamers Are Women, Apparently
6.10.2021
The Twitch leak from 4chan confirmed what a lot of people already know: The majority of the platform’s most successful content creators are men. But what’s shocking is the disparity. Out of the top 100 creators, only three of them are women. Only one of them is a woman of color.Read more
Report: Twitch Is Hacked And Its Source Code Is In The Wild
6.10.2021
According to a report by VGC, an anonymous hacker has posted a 125GB torrent link containing, well, all of Twitch, including its source code and commit history going back to the start. The leak also contains streamers’ incomes since 2019, and information that suggests the Amazon-owned streaming...
Over Populated New World Servers No Longer Allowing New Characters
3.10.2021
It’s a good thing when hundreds of thousands of people are trying to play your game. However, as with most things in life, too much of a good thing is well... bad.Read more
New World Still Bricking Expensive Graphics Cards, Say Players
1.10.2021
Amazon’s colonialist resource extraction MMO, New World, is currently the hottest new game on Steam, quite literally in some instances. More than a few players are reporting loud fans and high graphics card temperatures while running the game, and occasionally even just while queueing for it....
Amazon Is Selling Used Xbox Series Xs At Scalper Markup Prices
30.9.2021
Almost a year after the PS5 and Xbox Series X came out they’re still incredibly hard to find, and expensive, including at Amazon where the monopolistic retailer appears to be selling at least a few Microsoft consoles for roughly $1,000, or twice what they’re actually supposed to cost.Read more
Amazon Prime’s Free Games For October Are Shockingly Good
30.9.2021
I have a boring ritual. Every few weeks, I make sure to check out the Prime Gaming Rewards page to see what free games are available. Most of the time it’s nothing too exciting, maybe a few good, smaller games along with some totally forgettable things I’ll never play. But October is different....
Amazon’s New World MMO Won’t Let You Name Yourself Jeff Bezos
29.9.2021
No, you cannot name yourself Jeff Bezos or any variant thereof in Amazon’s recently released and incredibly messy Massively Multiplayer Online Colonization Simulator, The New World. This is unsurprising given the extremely fragile egos of the most powerful men on earth.Read more
New World Players Face Massive Queues, Wait Times On Overloaded Servers
28.9.2021
Amazon’s new massively multiplayer online role-playing game New World opened its doors earlier today, reaching a peak of over 700,000 players. That said, not even Jeff Bezos’ piggy bank has kept the MMO’s grand debut from being plagued with the usual launch day woes, including ridiculous wait times...
Amazon MMO New World, As Told By Steam Reviews
28.9.2021
It’s a new world, if not exactly a brave one. New World, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game published by Amazon, is officially out today for PC, marking the first legitimately successful game release for the planet’s most valuable company. (Pour one out for the super-face-planted...
Twitch And Music Industry Strike A Deal, But It's Not Great
22.9.2021
Last year a music industry crackdown on streaming site Twitch resulted in copyright strikes and a mass deletion of videos, as the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) sought to cut down on streamers playing licensed music. Twitch has now made a deal with the NMPA, but for streamers it’s...