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I Played That Racing Game Where Cars Have Legs And Jetpacks
5.5.2023
When I had an Apple Arcade subscription, I played endless amounts of What the Golf? on my phone. It was such a chaotic, joyful puzzle game that it actually annoyed me that Nathan Grayson robbed me of the opportunity to write about it. So I was excited to demo studio Triband’s next game: A racing...
Washington Post Shutting Down Gaming Section Amid Wider Layoffs
24.1.2023
The Washington Post imposed more layoffs on Tuesday just a week after owner Jeff Bezos visited its Washington D.C. office. Among the ritual sacrifices will be Launcher, the newspaper’s burgeoning gaming section, which routinely broke important news stories, landed big interviews, and asked...
2022 Gave Us Elon Musk Drama Every Month
7.12.2022
Whether you like it or not, Tesla/SpaceX/The Boring Company/Twitter/Neuralink CEO Elon Musk is inherently influential as the planet’s wealthiest person, and his influence covers a lot of ground—including that which is currently going on in the video game world. Not exclusively, since Musk’s year...
Amazon's MMO Forces Players To Pay Higher Tax Rate Than Jeff Bezos IRL
16.11.2022
Last week, New World’s patch notes indicated that taxes on Trade Post transactions would increase from 2.5 percent to a whopping 5 percent. What’s funny about this situation is that the MMO is published by Amazon Games, which is owned by Jeff Bezos. Last year, ProPublica reported that Jeff Bezos...
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Firing 11,000 After Company Spends $15bn On Metaverse
9.11.2022
Rumors have swirled this week, and now it’s confirmed: Meta, the owner of Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Oculus VR, is sacking 13 percent of its workforce, a total of around 11,000 employees out of work. This comes in the wake of the company having spent an extraordinary $15 billion on...
You Could Be Paying The Same Prices As Your Neighbor For Slower Internet
19.10.2022
It’s not just your imagination: Depending on where you live in America, major internet providers could be charging you the same price as your neighbors for fewer megabits per second. The discrepancy in service is reportedly the most severe in low-income and less white neighborhoods.Read more
GameStop Will Start Paying Some Employees With Meme Stock
25.8.2022
GameStop, a very coherent and logical company that sells physical video games but also fluffy toys, worthless NFTs and the promise of a get-rich-quick scheme, just announced an “improved compensation” scheme for the most senior employees of its bricks-and-mortar video game stores.Read more