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More Than 400 People Now Working On The Witcher 4, CDPR Confirms
29.3.2024
Production on the upcoming RPG The Witcher 4 has picked up significantly since we last heard about it. CD Projekt Red confirmed as part of its earnings report that the the team behind the game, codenamed Polaris, has grown to 403 staffers, or about two-thirds of the studio. It’s now the single...
Halo Season Two Sticks The Landing—I Told You So
21.3.2024
The season two finale of the Halo TV series does everything a video game adaptation should do and then some, proving a point I’ve been making for well over a year: This show is good.Read more
House Financial Services Committee Advances Bill to Repeal SEC Bulletin Preventing Banks From Offering Crypto Custody Services
2.3.2024
The House Financial Services Committee of the U.S. Congress has advanced a resolution that seeks to disavow SEC SAB 121, a bulletin that leaves banks and financial institutions out of the cryptocurrency custody provider market. However, the resolution, advanced with bipartisan support, is unlikely...
The Halo TV Series Just Killed Off An Iconic Character
23.2.2024
The latest episode of the Paramount+ Halo series is an action-packed throat punch from the moment it starts. That punch to your windpipe will sting a little more if you’re a big fan of a certain character from the games, who bit the proverbial dust this week. Read more
All The Major Changes Coming To Halo Infinite This Year
22.1.2024
Halo Infinite is killing its seasonal model in 2024. Three years after its initial launch, the live-service multiplayer shooter is shifting toward more bite-sized, 20-level battle passes arriving every four to six weeks. Developer 343 industries announced the content change in its January update...
Halo Season 2: 7 Cool Things Spotted In The First Trailer
4.12.2023
Season two of Halo’s TV adaptation is set to premiere on Paramount+ February 8, and we all got our first look over the weekend. It was packed with intense scenes forecasting the destruction of a world, lots of death, and lots of fighting. There were also a couple of neat little tidbits we spotted...
You Should Buy The OG Halo Instead Of The Pricey Infinite Skin
8.11.2023
Though Halo Infinite might be drawing folks back with its expanding map diversity and new customization options, the in-game cosmetics shop is still rubbing fans the wrong way. A recent skin intended to be a tribute to the very first Halo game, 2001’s Halo: Combat Evolved, is drawing a bit...
15 Years Ago, Halo 3 Changed My Entire Life
25.9.2023
I was 17 years old on September 25, 2007, the day Halo 3 launched for the Xbox 360. And on that day, I made a choice that forever altered the trajectory of my life.Read more
Halo's Master Chief Collection Is Getting Another Great Update Nine Years In
11.7.2023
In an era when it seems games are killed off all the time, it’s impressive to see Microsoft and 343 Industries continuing to support and update Halo: The Master Chief Collection nearly a decade after its initial release. And its next update, out July 12, is huge, adding a ton of new content to...
Halo Infinite Finally Adding Fan-Favorite Zombies Mode
15.6.2023
Since the old days of Halo 2 on the original Xbox, many players (myself included) have been enjoying zombie-inspired competitive modes in these games. And now, finally, Halo Infinite, the latest, somewhat beleaguered entry in the franchise, is adding its own version of this popular game mode in...
Prometheum Testimony Raises Doubts: Crypto Community Questions Credibility Amid Regulatory Clarity Hearing
15.6.2023
The crypto community is abuzz with discussions on social media about the recent United States House Committee hearing held on June 13, 2023, which delved into regulatory clarity within the crypto industry. Notably, the co-CEO of an obscure cryptocurrency broker named Prometheum expressed support...
We Rounded Up The Worst Parts Of The Very Best Games
24.5.2023
It echoes around the globe, ringing out from self-help books, elementary school bulletin boards, and proclaimed by Hannah Montana herself: “Nobody’s perfect,” not even your most favorite video games. Read more
A ‘Tremendous Variety of Possible Transaction Types’ — A Look at the Conversation Between Nakamoto and Andresen
11.5.2023
The Bitcoin mempool, otherwise known as the network’s transaction backlog, is still clogged with over 390,000 transactions waiting to be processed by miners. To clear the mempool, more than 190 blocks need to be mined. As the scaling issues continue to plague the network, a conversation between...
Republican U.S. Congressmen Demand Answers on the Biden Administration’s Crypto Stance
3.5.2023
U.S. Congressional Republican lawmakers demanded answers from the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers about the council’s “rationale” on issues ranging from legislation to central bank digital currencies.
Reps. Warren Davidson of Ohio and Mike Flood of Nebraska wrote a letter to...
Someone Recreated The Entire Halo 1 Warthog Finale In Halo Infinite
10.1.2023
The fantastic and famous final level of the original Xbox classic Halo: Combat Evolved features the Master Chief driving a Warthog as he tries to escape the Pillar of Autumn spaceship before it explodes. And now this iconic ending has been fully recreated by one player in Halo Infinite Forge.Read...
In 2022 Halo Infinite Struggled, While The Master Chief Collection Thrived
15.12.2022
The story of Halo in 2022 is a tale of two cities: Halo Infinite’s struggling modern live-service title with a potentially promising future, available in parallel with a thriving, active history of its best years in the form of The Master Chief Collection. A year in with Halo Infinite and it’s...
Consent And Compassion: How Devs Are Reshaping The Conversation Around Content Warnings
6.6.2022
It should be no surprise to anyone that the very mention of “trigger/content warnings” is likely to spark politically driven, reactionary rejections that whine about “snowflakes” and spoiled experiences. Years of poisoning the well in this area have made the terms frustratingly charged. But if...
The Halo Show’s First Season Closes With Uncertainty And Promise
20.5.2022
With “Transcendence,” the ninth and final episode of the Halo show’s premiere season, a lot is uncertain. This show has been a giant experiment of taking a “spaghettified” collection of Halo games, books, comics, and other related media and funneling that into an on-screen adaptation firmly rooted...
Halo Infinite Community Goes Nuts Over Leaked Forge Mode
16.2.2022
Halo Infinite’s creation mode, Forge, isn’t supposed to come out until way later this year, but apparently leaked early footage has started making the rounds this week. It looks amazing.Read more
Halo Infinite's Xbox Numbers Slip Behind Roblox
8.2.2022
Halo Infinite is slipping. As first reported by Forbes, 343 Industries’ popular shooter—the marquee Xbox game of this generation—has dropped out of the top five most-played games on Xbox, down from once upon a time holding fast in the top position.Read more