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New South Park Game Is About As Fun As Reading A Phone Book
27.3.2024
About halfway through the first mission in South Park: Snow Day, I found myself pausing the game and checking my phone as I desperately looked for entertainment. That’s what we professional and very serious critics call: Not a good sign. Read more
Helldivers 2 Advice And Our Hottest Final Fantasy VII Takes Of The Week
3.3.2024
It was a rather big week in gaming, this last one in February—mostly because we got Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth, and everyone came out of the woodwork to spout their hottest take and spiciest opinion about the Square Enix RPG. Is Cid redeemed? Is Aerith a goat lady? Is jank good?Read more
I Thought This Final Fantasy VII Character Had Big Goat Ears For Decades
28.2.2024
Let me be clear: I have never played a Final Fantasy game. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth may be out very soon, and the series may be one of the most influential in the history of video games, but I have never touched one. Aside from tangential knowledge gleaned against my will via the internet...
Let’s Collect All 18 Snow Globes In Starfield
24.10.2023
Earth isn’t in her best state in Starfield. Without an atmosphere, our home has been reduced to an endless desert. It’s shocking to behold. Only a few signs of humanity’s illustrious past remain, broken ruins poking out of the endless sands. And for some reason, at each of these somber sites sits...
Final Fantasy XVI: The Kotaku Review
21.6.2023
A bold and risky pivot toward action for Square Enix’s beloved RPG franchise, Final Fantasy XVI is a stunning achievement that revitalizes the series for a new age—and it just may be the best the series has been in more than 20 years.Read more
Neal Stephenson Says AI-Generated ChatGPT Is ‘Simply Not Interesting’
3.3.2023
Author of science-fiction novel “Snow Crash” says the algorithm-based tool falls short of connecting with artists
The 10 Most Stunning Uses Of Snow In Video Games
13.12.2022
I always liked the idea of snow more than shoveling it or letting it fall into my boots. When I lived in Western New York state—one of the snowiest places in the U.S.—every snowdrift pressed against my front door or patch of slush I’d sink into on my walk to school would make me huff white clouds...
5 Things To Know Before Playing The New 'Strand' Game, Witch Strandings
7.7.2022
Witch Strandings is the second official “strand-type” game, a genre (but more like an ideal) first introduced by Hideo Kojima’s transportation-focused Death Stranding. Like that other game, Witch Strandings makes you traverse a ruined, perilous landscape in order to deliver things. Unlike that...
'Father' of the Metaverse Neal Stephenson launching Metaverse blockchain
9.6.2022
At LAMINA1, Neal Stephenson will focus on “helping get artists and other value creators paid properly for their work, helping the environment [...] and seeing a truly open Metaverse get built” noted co-founder Peter Vessenes
Steam’s Latest Puzzle Sensation Is Very Trippy, Very Good
1.4.2022
The best moment of any good puzzle game is when it rewires your brain and you suddenly feel like the smartest person in the world. That moment when you look at a puzzle and think to yourself, “Oh…that would work!” and then it actually does and you feel amazing. But a great puzzle game should also...
I Can’t Stop Playing This Hades-Inspired Roguelike
16.2.2022
When roguelike games like Hades start you off with a sword, they usually just let you wield you one at a time. Not Warm Snow. This indie roguelike starts you off with not one, not two, but six whole swords. You can throw them at enemies with deadly precision, and then magically recall all of them...
The People Who Make Pathfinder Are Forming Tabletop RPG's First Big Union
14.10.2021
Over 30 employees of Pathfinder and Starfinder publisher Paizo Inc. today announced the formation of the United Paizo Workers union with support from the Communication Workers of America, the largest media labor union in the United States. United Paizo Workers is the first union of its kind in...
Before Game of Thrones Got Big, Intimacy Was Its Greatest Strength
15.4.2021
This Sunday marks 10 years since Game of Thrones changed the television landscape as we know it—kickstarting a decade of imitators, influencing the way genre stories were told as prestige drama, and, for most of that decade, expanding itself into a pop-cultural behemoth. Revisiting its first season...
How Researchers Used GM Car Crash Data And Frozen To Explain A Grisly 62-Year-Old Mystery
30.1.2021
I am a fan of the strange and unusual, so when our Editor-in-Chief Rory Carroll spotted this fascinating story in National Geographic about the Dyatlov Pass incident, he immediately sent it to me. He was right to do so, as this is one of my favorite mysteries and it seems it may have actually...
Swinging In A Winter Wonderland
12.12.2020
This week on Snapshots, a surprising lack of Cyberpunk 2077 screenshots. We got some good ones already, but I was expecting more! Maybe folks are too busy playing the game to snap photos or perhaps it’s just too buggy at the moment. Read more
The Best Snowy Video Games And Levels
12.12.2020
For many folks, December marks the start of colder weather, barren trees, and of course, snow. And just like real life, video games often include snowy and wintery levels or entire areas. Let’s put on some gloves and a good coat and trek out into the best snow in video games.Read more
Bitcoin’s 5% Drop in Value Puts Pressure on BTC Mining Operations and Older ASIC Rigs
1.7.2020
During the last seven days, the price of bitcoin has dropped 4.8% from a high of $9,700 on June 24, to a low of $8,965 on June 27. Since then the price has increased and the price per bitcoin is back above the $9k zone but much lower than before. The lower price has affected […]
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Charles Hoskinson: Ethereum Would Be Better if Buterin Used 'Snow White'
21.4.2020
Cardano founder Charlies Hoskinson said that Ethereum could have developed more smoothly, had Buterin made different decisions regarding the PoS protocol
Factom’s Founder and CEO Paul Snow Speaks Exclusively to CryptoNewsZ
14.10.2019
Today at CryptoNewsZ, we are joined by Paul Snow, Founder and CEO of Factom, President of Texas Bitcoin Conference, and Founder & Chief Architect of DTRules. CryptoNewsZ: Welcome to CryptoNewsZ, Paul, our readers would love to know more about your tremendous journey? I’ve been fascinated with...