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Two Of The Best Shooters Of All Time Are Now Free (And More Of The Week's Top Stories)
16.11.2024
This week saw the classic shootersUnreal and Unreal Tournament, with publisher Epic’s blessing, made permanently free and accessible via the Internet Archive. Meanwhile, Blizzard held a stream celebrating the 30th anniversary of Warcraft, at which it revealed that the first two games in the...
Ubisoft Facing Lawsuit Over Shutting Down Always-Online Game
11.11.2024
Two people in California have filed a lawsuit against Ubisoft after the company turned off servers for 2014's The Crew, an open-world racing game released on PS4 and Xbox One, making it impossible to play the game. Read more
New World: Aeternum, As Told By Steam Reviews
1.11.2024
On launch, New World broke records and amassed a massive playerbase of over one million concurrent players. But like my high school bully, that towering monstrosity of an MMORPG somehow managed to peak quickly and drop off the face of the planet. Despite the lackluster reception after its first...
Most Players Prefer Single-Player Games, New Study Claims
4.10.2024
For the last few years, the video game industry has seemed obsessed with building always-online live-service multiplayer experiences. And many of those live games, like Concord, have failed to find much success. Now a new survey reveals that might be because most folks prefer playing single-player...
Apex Legends Players Are In Full Revolt After Battle Pass Controversy
9.7.2024
Yesterday, Apex Legends announced the free-to-play battle royale would be embracing shrinkflation, splitting seasonal battle passes in half while still charging players roughly the same amount for them. Today, some long-time fans are calling it the last straw after months of other issues,...
Valorant Player’s Rape Comments Go Viral In Twitch Clip That Shows Just How Toxic Voice Chat Can Be
15.5.2024
Everyone who’s ever played an online game with voice chat has probably experienced something that made them never want to do so again. Toxicity in online games, especially in shooters and other competitive genres, can feel as ingrained and immutable as bad weather. Companies keep saying they’re...
A Ubisoft Game Is At The Center Of A Fight To Stop Online Game Shutdowns
3.4.2024
In an increasingly digital age, owning media outright has become less and less possible. Whether it’s movies, music, books, or video games, the pivot to digital has made it harder for consumers to own permanent, physical copies of their favorite pieces of media. In video games, myriad titles that...
Halo 2 Multiplayer Is So Back
15.3.2024
In 2010, Microsoft shut down Xbox Live servers for the original Xbox. That meant the online components of titles like Phantasy Star Online, Star Wars: Battlefront II, and Halo 2 were completely unavailable to play. While not everybody in 2024 still has access to an original Xbox and is mourning...
Star Wars Galaxies Was 'No Man's Sky In 2003,' Says MMO Legend
5.3.2024
As we stare vacantly at our smartphones and watch global atrocities unfold over “X,” it’s easy to forget that the internet once offered a vision for hope. In the early ‘90s, the infinite possibilities of an interconnected web felt exhilarating. Knowledge and data could be seamlessly shared across...
Over 500 Studios Are Working On Live-Service Games
2.2.2024
A new game industry survey revealed that over 500 studios around the world are currently working on or maintaining live-service video games like Destiny 2, Suicide Squad, and Fortnite.Read more
Fan-Revived MMO Given Official License To Continue
4.1.2024
City of Heroes was a beloved MMORPG that launched in April 2004 and lasted just over eight years. In that time it won a dedicated community of players who, even after the game died, kept playing the MMO via private servers that existed in a weird legal gray area. But now, the developers behind City...
60 Games Have Already Been Killed, And 2023 Ain’t Over Yet [Update]
28.11.2023
We’re still making it through 2023 and a surprising number of games have already been killed off, as devs have announced their impending deaths. Normally, we’d reserve this list for the end-of-the-year round-up, but we’re ringing the death knell early because, with 15 games already lined up...
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...
Final Fantasy XIV Is Adding Fall Guys-Inspired Mini-Games
28.7.2023
In the words of Paula Abdul and MC Skat Kat, opposites attract. Perhaps that kernel of wisdom can explain the recent announcement that Final Fantasy XIV—an epic, fantasy MMORPG—is crossing over with Fall Guys—a colorful, small-scale battle royale—in a future update. Read more
Despite Advancements, Games Still Aren't Doing Enough To Stop Toxic Voice Chat
21.7.2023
I started regularly playing competitive online games in 2007, with the launch of Halo 3. Back then, participating in in-game voice chat was harrowing for a 17-year-old girl whose voice betrayed her gender and her youth. I was subjected to such frequent and horrific hostility (rape threats...
Nintendo Switch Online rozšíří tři hity z éry Game Boy Advance
19.5.2023
Yet Another Online Game Is Shutting Down, Devs Promise 'Private Server' PC Version
3.2.2023
What a week. It was only Tuesday that we wrote about Rumbleverse, a battle royale game that was shutting down less than six months after launch. Now, on Thursday, we’ve got another, only this time it’s Knockout City.Read more
Anime Fighting Game Under Attack By Hackers Who Have Made It Unplayable
9.1.2023
Guilty Gear Strive, Arc System Works’ mega-popular 2D anime fighter, is under attack by hackers who’ve resurfaced a fatal exploit that seemingly causes the game to become unplayable for some players online.Read more
Předplatitelé Switch Online mohou vyzkoušet strašidelné Obakeidoro!
26.10.2022
How I Made a Pure CSS Puzzle Game
9.9.2022
I recently discovered the joy of creating CSS-only games. It’s always fascinating how HTML and CSS are capable of handling the logic of an entire online game, so I had to try it! Such games usually rely on the ol’ …
How I Made a Pure CSS Puzzle Game originally published on CSS-Tricks, which...