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Reddit CEO Says Blackout Hasn’t Really Cost Them Money Yet And ‘Will Pass’
13.6.2023
The last couple of weeks have not gone well for Reddit, the news aggregator and community platform popular with gamers. Following drastic changes to the site’s functionality and a massive blackout organized in protest, CEO Steve Huffman is now saying that everything Reddit is going through will...
Reddit Goes Down As Communities Protest Wildly Unpopular Changes [UPDATE]
12.6.2023
As we reported earlier in the month, Reddit, one of the most popular forums for gaming communities, is planning to make some changes under the hood that will essentially kill off every third-party app. Given the state of the official app and its heavy reliance on huge ads, it’s a deeply unpopular...
Gamers Anxiously Check Heads After Twitch Streamer Shows Headphone Dent
8.6.2023
For today’s edition of “Things You Might Want To Worry About,” we bring you the story of a streamer who discovered his many hours of wearing a gaming audio headset has left an indent on his scalp. Subsequent discussion revealed that many other gamers have experienced the same. Go ahead and have...
Twitch Abandons Bad Ad Changes After Streamer Freak Out
8.6.2023
Earlier this week, Twitch set the streaming world ablaze with what appeared to be new guidelines that heavily impacted how streamers could monetize their channels. The rules appeared to dictate things like how much space logos could take up on the screen, and whether or not these sponsorships could...
Reddit Users Are 'Going Dark' To Protest Wildly Unpopular Site Changes
7.6.2023
As we reported last week, Reddit is planning to make some changes under the hood that will essentially kill off every third-party app that readers use to engage with the site’s communities. Given the state of the official app and its heavy reliance on huge ads, it’s a deeply unpopular move,...
Twitch's New Ad Rules Are Very Bad For Streamers
6.6.2023
On June 6, popular streaming service Twitch rolled out a set of new advertisement rules that spell trouble for streamers large and small. The rules are directly related to branded content streamers add into their streams, which are a crucial source of revenue for creators, and the new set of rules...
A Showcase Of Some Of The Best Games You Have Probably Never Heard Of
6.6.2023
It’s June 2023 and there are too many video games. Not the big ones—those are rare and increasingly so—but every tier under that is absolutely stacked with new releases, so many that it’s almost impossible to keep tabs on them all.Read more
Apple Announces Very Fancy 'Vision Pro' Headset
5.6.2023
All the rumors were true. Apple has a fancy headset it wants to sell you. The tech giant revealed its new mixed reality / virtual reality headset during its June 5 WWDC digital event, confirming the details of previous leaks. Read more
The Brilliant Scholar Who’s Challenging Racism In Game Design
2.6.2023
During her keynote speech at last year’s ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in New Orleans, Dr. Kishonna Gray shared a story about the game Pokémon Go.Read more
Board Game YouTuber's $7500 Video Request Opens Can Of Worms
23.5.2023
Over the weekend a small controversy erupted in board game circles when rumours began circulating that Quackalope, one of the scene’s more popular YouTube review channels, had supposedly ‘blackmailed’ the publisher of a game they had been covering over a series of videos.Read more
Welcome To Famicase 2023, My Favorite Time Of The Year
12.5.2023
Every year, around about now, indie Japanese games retailer/shopfront Meteor holds an exhibition called Famicase. The goal? Showcase the design and illustration of cartridge art for games that do not exist. Artists from all over the world take part, sending in their submissions, and every year...
PC Gamers Are Getting Angry At All The Wrong People
5.5.2023
If you’ve been even remotely connected to PC gaming over the last year or two, you’d have felt some heat radiating off the community. A rising sense of frustration, that things are bad and just keep getting worse. Many PC gamers feel like they’re reaching a breaking point, and it’s hard not...
Big-Name Twitch Streamer Amouranth Got Banned Again For Some Reason
4.5.2023
Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa, one of Twitch’s top-performing and most popular female streamers, has been yeeted off the platform. She was hit with what appears to be a temporary ban on May 4, though the reason is unknown.Read more
Runescape Bet Results In Redditor Pouring Hot Coffee On His Butthole
3.5.2023
Folks: Never make a bet that you’re prepared to lose. Just ask this Old School Runescape community member who thought that his rival wouldn’t be able to get a coveted pet with a 1-in-9,779 drop rate and was so confident he bet against it. Unfortunately, his rival did the statistically improbable...
Stop. Closing. Forums. For. Discords.
2.5.2023
As technology advances, and online communities shift to adapt, we take it as a kind of default proposition that new sites and platforms should be better than old ones. Reality, of course, has different plans.Read more
RIP To Waypoint, A Good Website About Video Games
28.4.2023
In 2016 Vice launched a website called Waypoint, which the company hoped would be an “immersive dive into the culture, passion and politics of gaming”. It did that, and then some, and then kicked even more ass, and in June 2023 it will be gone.Read more
Metacritic Will Improve Moderation After Horizon Review Bombing
25.4.2023
Following the recent review bombing of Horizon Forbidden West’s latest story DLC Burning Shores, review aggregator Metacritic has confirmed in a statement to Eurogamer that the site is “evolving [its] processes” to introduce tools that will create stricter moderation for abusive and disrespectful...
Epic's Billionaire CEO Jumps On Twitter To Complain About Elites
24.4.2023
If you had not already been made aware of the news—and I admire and respect everyone whose life choices means they are not—Twitter owner and exploding vehicle connoisseur Elon Musk spent the weekend further ruining his $44 billion purchase by messing around with the remains of the platform’s...
Police Bodycam Game Explodes, But Not Without Doubt And Controversy
20.4.2023
When developer Alexandre Spindler revealed footage of a “body cam style game” he was working on last fall, it exploded across the internet as people marveled at its eerie ambiance and photorealistic look. “This is awesome,” wrote District 9 director Neill Blomkamp. Now the game has been announced...
Frostpunk: The Board Game: The Kotaku Review
12.4.2023
I’ve reviewed a lot of board game adaptations of video games on this website, and with good reason: it’s the most intimate intersection of our board game and video game coverage. In nearly every case, the key consideration has been how does the board game feel compared to the original. What kind...