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Reddit CEO Says Blackout Hasn’t Really Cost Them Money Yet And ‘Will Pass’
13.6.2023
The last couple of weeks have not gone well for Reddit, the news aggregator and community platform popular with gamers. Following drastic changes to the site’s functionality and a massive blackout organized in protest, CEO Steve Huffman is now saying that everything Reddit is going through will...
Reddit Goes Down As Communities Protest Wildly Unpopular Changes [UPDATE]
12.6.2023
As we reported earlier in the month, Reddit, one of the most popular forums for gaming communities, is planning to make some changes under the hood that will essentially kill off every third-party app. Given the state of the official app and its heavy reliance on huge ads, it’s a deeply unpopular...
Gamers Anxiously Check Heads After Twitch Streamer Shows Headphone Dent
8.6.2023
For today’s edition of “Things You Might Want To Worry About,” we bring you the story of a streamer who discovered his many hours of wearing a gaming audio headset has left an indent on his scalp. Subsequent discussion revealed that many other gamers have experienced the same. Go ahead and have...
Reddit Users Are 'Going Dark' To Protest Wildly Unpopular Site Changes
7.6.2023
As we reported last week, Reddit is planning to make some changes under the hood that will essentially kill off every third-party app that readers use to engage with the site’s communities. Given the state of the official app and its heavy reliance on huge ads, it’s a deeply unpopular move,...
Duolingo Is An App For Language-Learning, So Why Is It Plagued With Cheaters?
5.6.2023
Julian wanted to brush up on his Japanese and Spanish. The popular language learning app Duolingo, with its gamified incentives and rewards, its leagues, tournaments, and power-ups, seemed like a good way to do it. He started spending hours in the app, trying to claw his way to a better rank....
That Is An Excellent Portable Computer Design
30.5.2023
Timur Kvasov is a veteran concept artist based in Serbia who has done work for companies like Tencent and 5518 Studios.Read more
Board Game YouTuber's $7500 Video Request Opens Can Of Worms
23.5.2023
Over the weekend a small controversy erupted in board game circles when rumours began circulating that Quackalope, one of the scene’s more popular YouTube review channels, had supposedly ‘blackmailed’ the publisher of a game they had been covering over a series of videos.Read more
Redditors Are Competing To Make The Worst User Experience Possible
20.5.2023
As the recent Reddit commercials have made clear, there’s a community for everything. Nihilist horror, Game of Thrones’ Hodor, avocado food porn (because why not)...you can always find your people. Case in point, there’s a subreddit dedicated to atrocious user interfaces, which is now seeing...
Weeb Hacks Popular Anime Database Just To Recommend One Show Over And Over Again
12.5.2023
On Monday, MyAnimeList, a popular anime database/social media site that allows fans to track their progress in seasonal shows and discuss new and old series in forum posts, announced the website is down due to emergency maintenance because “a malicious individual overwrote anime database...
Runescape Bet Results In Redditor Pouring Hot Coffee On His Butthole
3.5.2023
Folks: Never make a bet that you’re prepared to lose. Just ask this Old School Runescape community member who thought that his rival wouldn’t be able to get a coveted pet with a 1-in-9,779 drop rate and was so confident he bet against it. Unfortunately, his rival did the statistically improbable...
Metacritic Will Improve Moderation After Horizon Review Bombing
25.4.2023
Following the recent review bombing of Horizon Forbidden West’s latest story DLC Burning Shores, review aggregator Metacritic has confirmed in a statement to Eurogamer that the site is “evolving [its] processes” to introduce tools that will create stricter moderation for abusive and disrespectful...
Epic's Billionaire CEO Jumps On Twitter To Complain About Elites
24.4.2023
If you had not already been made aware of the news—and I admire and respect everyone whose life choices means they are not—Twitter owner and exploding vehicle connoisseur Elon Musk spent the weekend further ruining his $44 billion purchase by messing around with the remains of the platform’s...
Here’s What $30M Of Funko Pops Going To The Landfill Actually Looks Like
29.3.2023
Earlier this month, the pop culture collectible company Funko announced it was going to throw $30 million worth of Pop! figures in the garbage because its warehouses were overflowing with excess stock. Now images are beginning to emerge of unopened boxes full of Harry Potter-theme Funkos and more...
Popular YouTube Channel Linus Tech Tips Pulled After Scammer Hack
23.3.2023
Linus Tech Tips is one of YouTube’s most popular content creators for tech hardware, with over 15 million followers on the platform. That changed very quickly after the account was hacked by crypto scammers who used it to run Bitcoin ads. The account has now been “terminated,” according to an error...
Trump Hasn't Been Arrested But AI Images Keep Fooling People
21.3.2023
The former U.S. president Donald Trump still walks free as of the time of writing. But certain AI-generated photos on Twitter tell a different story. These deepfakes depict a world where one of the most powerful white men in America can be treated like any other citizen, meaning actually be held...
GameStop Meme Stock Movie Dumb Money Out Later This Year
13.3.2023
GameStop’s Hollywood moment is finally coming this October. Sony announced its dramatization of the video game retailer’s meme stock explosion will hit theaters in October, starring Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Pete Davidson and more. It’s called Dumb Money. I hope it lives up to it.Read more
YouTube’s New Profanity Policy Will Let You Cuss A Bit More
7.3.2023
Good news for all the potty-mouthed YouTubers out there. A new update introduced by the monetization policy team makes some important changes, letting you cuss more often in your uploads and still collect that ad-revenue bag.Read more
At Least $100,000 Worth Of Magic Cards Dumped In Landfill
28.2.2023
Over the weekend, Reddit user LATIN0 posted some pics on the internet of something neat they saw while at the dump. They’d spotted a bunch of boxes, all in pristine condition, that were full of Magic: The Gathering cards.Read more
The Creator Of PlayStation's Iconic Logo Sound Has Passed Away
22.2.2023
Tohru Okada, the Japanese musician behind the distinctive sound that has accompanied the PlayStation logo in advertisements for a quarter century, has passed away. Read more
The Full Story Behind That Spinning Cat You're Seeing Everywhere Now
21.2.2023
If you’ve been on Twitter, Steam, Tiktok, or Reddit recently, you may have come across a 3D model of a black-and-white cat. This is Maxwell, and while the cat’s become very popular among modders and gamers over the last few months, its origins date back before 2023. So why is a low-poly model of...