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Biden Order to Halt China-Tied Bitcoin Mine Beside Nuke Base Came as U.S. Firm Just Bought it
16.5.2024
President Biden's emergency order to halt the Chinese-tied mining on the doorstep of a nuclear-missile base hit days after mining giant CleanSpark struck a deal to buy the property
PlayStation 5 Sales Fall Short Of PS4, Even As Helldivers 2 Breaks Records
14.5.2024
Sony sold over 20 million PlayStation 5s in its last fiscal year, an impressive number that nevertheless failed to hit its original goal of 25 million, and even missed its revised target of 21 million consoles sold. The latest numbers make it clear that the next-gen hardware will probably never...
Awesome Helldivers 2 Mod Lets Players Reenact Their Star Wars Fantasies
13.5.2024
Helldivers 2 may be a video game analog for the satire of the 1997 sci-fi film Starship Troopers, but there’s an entirely different space-faring movie franchise fans have been clamoring to see in the game. That franchise is, quite predictably, Star Wars, and folks have especially wanted to...
Helldivers 2’s Latest Major Order Suggests Player Choices May Not Really Matter
10.5.2024
Helldivers 2’s major orders are supposed to be objectives that unite the community to work toward a common goal, one that often paves the way for momentous beats in its ongoing galactic war. Past major orders have led to incredible player-led stories like the liberation of Malevelon Creek and...
Helldivers 2’s Community Railing Against New Warbond Weapon, Calls It A ‘Downgrade’
9.5.2024
Helldivers 2’s terrible, no-good, very bad week was meant to be over by now, but instead the game and its developer are taking yet another hard knock. First there was the debacle last week that saw Helldivers 2 a) pulled from Steam in various countries over a PSN login requirement, b)...
Helldivers 2 Community Manager Seemingly Gone After PlayStation Login Meltdown
8.5.2024
Things in the world of Helldivers 2 are going back to normal after Sony reversed course on a controversial PSN login requirement for the popular sci-fi shooter on PC. But not everyone appears to have made it out of the public relations fiasco in one piece. Arrowhead Studios community manager Spitz...
Helldivers 2 Community Rallies To Rescue The Game's Steam Reviews
7.5.2024
Co-op shooter Helldivers 2 was enjoying tons of success in the months since its February launch. Then, a few days ago, Sony announced that PC players had to link (or create) a PlayStation Network account to continue playing the game. This enraged fans who have been playing for months, resulting...
PlayStation Reversing Course On Helldivers 2 Is Both Smart And A Sign Of How Inept It Is
6.5.2024
Last week, Arrowhead Studios announced that an upcoming update to its hit co-op shooter Helldivers 2 would require existing PC players on Steam to make a PlayStation Network account to continue playing. If they didn’t, they’d lose access to their Helldivers accounts, and that news did not land...
Ghost Of Tsushima Multiplayer Will Require A PlayStation Network Sign-In On PC
6.5.2024
Sucker Punch’s open-world samurai game Ghost of Tsushima is getting a Steam port this month that will require a PlayStation Network account to access its multiplayer mode. If this sounds familiar, it’s because Sony recently announced that the “grace period” for the beloved multiplayer game...
Helldivers 2 Won't Require A PSN Account On Steam After Massive Player Backlash
6.5.2024
PlayStation has announced that, after about three days of online yelling and reviewing bombing, it will no longer require Helldivers 2 players on PC to link their Steam account to a PlayStation Network account in order to continue accessing the popular sci-fi co-op shooter. Read more
Helldivers 2 Boss Says Sorry After Game Gets Review-Bombed To Hell
3.5.2024
It’s been a terrible day for Helldivers 2 and the team behind it. Angry players swarmed the co-op shooter’s Steam page to review-bomb it like a giant hive of Terminids after a PlayStation Network login requirement was reinstituted on PC. “Ouch, right in the review score,” Arrowhead Studios...
Helldivers 2 Community At War Over Controversial PSN Requirement
3.5.2024
Helldivers 2 is a game about endless war and now its fanbase finds itself in a similar situation as a civil war rages on between players following a change to how the super-popular online shooter will operate on PC.Read more
A Bugged Helldivers 2 Stat Was So Terrible, Players Refused To Believe It Was True
3.5.2024
For some time now, the Helldivers 2 community has wanted clearer data on the galactic war that it’s been fighting, and earlier this week, Arrowhead Game Studios finally delivered. Specifically, the studio deployed the “Super Commas,” which implemented dividing commas into the existing in-game stats...
Helldivers 2 Players Mad Over New PSN Steam Requirements
3.5.2024
Among the myriad scourges that make playing games in 2024 so tiresome, the need for multiple different accounts to various services ranks high. Helldivers 2 players have just been told by Sony that come next week, they’ll have to link their Steam account with a PlayStation Network account...
Hasbro Really Wants New Snake Eyes Game To Make G.I. Joe Cool Again
1.5.2024
As part of a $1 billion investment in internal game development, Hasbro is working on a new game set in the G.I. Joe universe which will focus on the team’s resident ninja, Snake Eyes. The project was first revealed to be in pre-production last year and is being developed by a team made up...
Police Department Apologizes For Tone-Deaf Call Of Duty Recruitment Ad
1.3.2024
A Peoria, Illinois police department tried to recruit new officers with a Call of Duty-inspired campaign on social media, and it was as tone-deaf as you’d imagine. The post, originally shared on the Peoria Police Department’s social media page, showed three white men posing with guns while wearing...
We Know Who Anya Taylor-Joy Is Playing in Dune: Part Two (Probably)
15.2.2024
Dune: Part Two, the upcoming sequel to Denis Villeneuve’s 2021 sci-fi epic based on the Frank Herbert novels, is releasing in just two weeks, but somehow the team behind it kept one major star’s involvement a total secret. During the February 15 world premiere in London, The Queen’s Gambit actor...
Conscientious Objector Jailed After Being Outed As PUBG Player
5.2.2024
The Supreme Court of Korea has ruled that a South Korean man must serve one year and six months in prison after he refused the country’s mandatory military service. He had argued he was a conscientious objector, but a lower court dismissed this partially because he loves playing PlayerUnknown’s...
‘The Helmet’s Still Gonna Come Off’ In Halo Season 2, EP Says
1.2.2024
I might be in the minority, but I enjoyed the first season of the Paramount+ Halo TV series. Though it stumbled at times, I appreciated its attempts to flesh out characters like franchise lead Master Chief John-117, expand upon well-established Halo lore, and give us more than just a video game...
The Best Shooters Of 2023
28.12.2023
2023 was yet another solid year for fans of shooty-shooty-bang-bang video games. While the Golden Era of shooters might be slowing down as the year wraps up, we still got some dang good ones, both in first-person and third-person variants, over these past 12 months. Read more