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Roblox Boss: We Aren't Exploiting Child Labor, We're Giving Kids In ‘The Slum’ A Job
4.4.2024
Roblox is one of the biggest games in the world, letting people (who are mostly under 16 years old) create and play their own custom creations and share them with others. Roblox has also been at the center of controversy, as some believe the game exploits child labor and doesn’t do enough...
60 Percent Of Playtime In 2023 Went To 6-Year-Old Or Older Games, New Data Shows
2.4.2024
A newly released game industry report by market researcher Newzoo shows that while the PC and console market grew 2.6 percent in 2023, overall playtime decreased as gamers spent more and more time in a smaller list of old games like Fortnite and League of Legends. Read more
The Among Us Animated Show’s Cast Is Stacked
15.3.2024
If you didn’t know or, like me, completely jettisoned the information from your brain, popular social deduction game Among Us is getting an animated series by way of CBS Studios. Today, Variety reported the series’ cast, and it’s absolutely stacked with talent, including actors from some...
New Jaws Game Is-OH GOD THE FACES
27.2.2024
I was ready to be excited when I heard we were getting a new Jaws game. Past video games based on the classic ‘70s shark attack film have been great. Even that short-lived mobile Jaws game. Even if this new game is just in Roblox—a free-to-play online game built out of user-created maps...
[BREAKING] E3 Is Officially Dead, Press 'F' To Pay Respects
12.12.2023
E3, the video game conference that’s taken place annually in Los Angeles since 1995, is officially dead. After several years of struggles and rumors of its demise, its end was confirmed in The Washington Post’s exclusive interview with president and CEO of the Entertainment Software Association...
The Intellivision Amico Console Is Somehow Still Not Dead
23.11.2023
We bet you’d forgotten about sort-of-Intellivision’s disastrous attempted console, the Amico. Revealed in 2020 as this super-cheap, super-exclusive, family-friendly gaming machine, replete with exclusive $8 games, the following years saw the business go through clusterfuck after clusterfuck....
Roblox Players Say Pro-Palestinian Games Are Being Taken Down
6.11.2023
Two weeks ago, hundreds of Roblox players jumped into a custom game that let them take part in a pro-Palestine march. The game, which appeared to have been organized by Malaysian Roblox players, was made in response to the escalating violence in the Middle East. On October 7, the Islamic political...
Kids Are Attending Pro-Palestinian Protests In This Popular Game
24.10.2023
In the midst of the ongoing escalation between Israel and Palestine, gamers who can’t attend protests in real life are turning to digital spaces to show their support for those suffering as a result of the conflict. The latest venue? The ultra-popular tween hit Roblox.Read more
E3 More Dead Than Ever As Organizers Work On 'Complete Reinvention' Of The Gaming Showcase
7.9.2023
The Entertainment Software Association (ESA), which controls E3, and ReedPop, which organizes events like PAX, announced they’re no longer working together after failing to put on the biggest gaming showcase of the year back in June. The once-annual, once-dominant trade event hasn’t been held...
Popular Online Game Accused Of Profiting Off Of Child Gambling
18.8.2023
Roblox has long been accused of not doing enough to make sure its massively popular gaming platform is free of toxicity and exploitation. Now parents are joining together in a class-action lawsuit to take the $17 billion company to court over allegations that it gets children into online gambling...
Roblox Will Soon Start To Interview Some Job Seekers In-Game
11.8.2023
Interviewing for a job isn’t fun. Today, so many companies make candidates jump through numerous hoops and several interviews just to get a chance to work for them. And now, the company behind the free-to-play online game Roblox is preparing to take the next, horrible step: interviewing people...
Roblox Leak Reveals 4,000 Developers' Detailed Personal Information
20.7.2023
Megalithic game-thing Roblox doesn’t exactly have the best of reputations. Accusations of exploitation of children’s labor are hardly a good look, and this week also saw staff reporting that there has been little effort to address the lack of diversity at the studio. On top of all that, today it’s...
Roblox Trying To Describe Adult Poop Is Very Funny
28.6.2023
Roblox, for so very long a platform of games (I’m sorry, experiences) aimed at and played by kids, is trying to expand its offerings now that many of those kids are growing up into young adults. In doing so, though, they’re running into some problems.Read more
Fall Guys Goes Free-To-Play, Servers Immediately Crash
22.6.2022
Oops, they did it again. Fall Guys, Mediatonic’s bubbly platformer royale, released on Xbox and Switch yesterday as part of a big free-to-play overhaul. The game’s servers immediately combusted, with reports of connectivity woes continuing more than 24 hours later.Read more
Fall Guys Gets Free-To-Play Overhaul Next Month
17.5.2022
It was a big day for jelly bean battle royale Fall Guys. Mediatonic announced the pandemic-era hit would go free-to-play, land on Xbox and Switch next month, and start its seasonal calendar over from scratch again. It’s effectively going the Rocket League route, but three years ahead...
Warehouse Employees Steal Over $35,000 Worth Of Video Cards
19.3.2022
Three men in Russia were reportedly arrested after stealing 20 Nvidia RTX 3070 TIs from a suburban warehouse. While they successfully made off with the video cards, a haul worth nearly $38,000 USD, they were arrested after trying to sell them to local pawn shops. Read more
Among Us Just Added Scientist, Shapeshifter Roles
9.11.2021
Among Us, once regarded as a simplistic take on the Mafia and Werewolf party games, is finally expanding on the basic Crewmates vs. Impostors format.Read more
Oh Snap, Animal Crossing Rocks Can Give You Star Fragments Now
4.11.2021
Well, this is a nice surprise. Folks have been exploring the big new Animal Crossing update since last night, as the patch went up early. Already, the community has struck gold. As it turns out, you can now visit a type of island that contains a special, never-before-seen type of rock.Read more
Among Us Is Finally Coming To PlayStation And Game Pass
21.10.2021
Better late than never, right? A year after Among Us blew up during the pandemic, and three years after it first released on Steam, Innersloth’s murder spree sim is finally coming to PlayStation and Xbox consoles on December 14.Read more
Epic Finally Admits Among Us Inspired Fortnite's Impostors Mode
12.10.2021
If it walks like Among Us, talks like Among Us, and quacks like Among Us, it was probably at the very least inspired by the runaway success of Innersloth’s murder mystery party game. Epic Games is now finally copping to that in the patch notes for a new update to Fornite’s Impostors mode.Read more