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Ethereum devs create 'shadow fork' to test conditions for Ether withdrawals
23.1.2023
Developers are attempting to attack the forked testnet with malicious nodes to see if they can find vulnerabilities
How Goose Goose Duck hit 700k CCU on Steam
23.1.2023
We talk to the devs about it. Also: 'state of the industry' survey & more
Popular Steam Game Raises Price After Seven Years Without A Sale
20.1.2023
Critically-acclaimed base-building hit Factorio is an odd duck. Since its 2016 Steam release, the game has never gone on sale. And now, the developer behind Factorio is changing the price of its popular game, but it ain’t getting a discount. Instead, the price is jumping up $5 next week. The devs...
Battlefield's Classes Are Finally Coming Back To 2042
20.1.2023
While Battlefield 2042 is getting better with each update (or at least closer to the game it could and should have been at launch), there’s one thing that has annoyed a lot of long-time players ever since its release and continues to do so: Specialists, a bunch of “hero” characters designed...
Xbox Exec Praises Devs For Releasing Games Amid Culture of ‘Cancellation'
18.1.2023
Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer juxtaposed the joys of gaming with the current sense of despair in the world after accepting the Andrew Yoon Legend Award at the 12th Annual New York Game Awards on Tuesday night. He also applauded creators who still release “their visions” into the world in...
Ubisoft Devs Grill Boss On Shifting Blame And Chasing Trends
18.1.2023
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot faced tough questions from some exhausted and fed-up staff about recent missteps and future plans in a company-wide Q&A session on Wednesday. The meeting comes just a week after the Assassin’s Creed publisher announced new cancellations, delays, and cost-cutting...
Number of devs increased during crypto winter: Electric Capital report
18.1.2023
Ethereum continues to be the dominant blockchain for developer activity, however, a few other chains continued to make ground
Ethereum Validator Count Surpasses 500,000 Ahead of Upcoming Shanghai Hard Fork
17.1.2023
According to statistics, the number of Ethereum network validators on the Beacon chain exceeded 500,000 as of Jan. 12, 2023. The validator milestone comes as Ethereum core developers prepare for the Shanghai hard fork. Five days ago, Ethereum core developers launched a developer network environment...
Shiba Inu devs to launch Shibarium L2 network beta
16.1.2023
While the developers did not give an exact date for the release, the team reiterated that their answer to all questions relating to the time frame is “soon.”
Halo Infinite Devs Use Fan's Pokémon Map To Help With Game's Aiming Issues
13.1.2023
Halo has a long tradition of community-made maps and game modes that range everywhere from serious to silly. Recently, one map and mode combo that’s more on the playful and fun side of things caught the attention of 343 Industries as an opportunity to fix long-standing shooting issues. Named after...
Ethereum Developers Prepare to Deploy Shanghai Public Testnet, Focus on Staked Ether Withdrawals
10.1.2023
According to the Jan. 5, 2023 All Core Devs (ACD) meeting, Ethereum developers are preparing to deploy a public testnet for the highly anticipated Shanghai hard fork in February 2023, with the mainnet implementation tentatively scheduled for March. Ethereum’s core developers emphasized that...
Report: Callisto Protocol Devs Left Out Of Credits Despite ‘Intense’ Work
9.1.2023
Some developers on the space horror blockbuster Callisto Protocol say they were omitted from the end credits sequence despite extensive work on the game and key contributions to the finished product. The claims come amid a renewed push throughout the video game industry to fix a broken crediting...
Logan Paul Says Some Of His NFT Game Devs Were 'Con Men,' But He Didn't Scam
4.1.2023
After keeping his mouth shut for roughly two weeks, Logan Paul has finally opened up about his blockchain NFT “game,” CryptoZoo, in a response video to investigative YouTuber Stephen “Coffeezilla” Findeisen. However, if you were hoping for some sort of explanation of what went wrong with...
The Pokémon Devs Made A Cult Hit That You Now Have Another Chance To Play
3.1.2023
2023’s first gaming surprise is here, and it’s a shockingly pleasant one: Pocket Card Jockey is coming to Apple Arcade on January 20. Game Freak’s experimental 3DS game is notable for both being really fun and one of the studio’s only non-Pokémon releases, and Apple’s ongoing exercise...
Dogecoin devs deny rumor of immediate PoS switch following community concern
29.12.2022
The denial was made after critics said the team was going to “kill scrypt miners.”
Ukrainian Devs Remind Us Life Is Still Hell As Russian Drones Bomb Cities
23.12.2022
It feels like forever since the war in Ukraine began, but it hasn’t even been a year; Russian tanks rolled across the border in February, just ten months ago. Yet what was once headline news has now blurred into the background for most of us, a conflict that for the rest of the world is...
One Of Steam’s Biggest Games Last Month Was A Police Sim, Not Worrying At All
21.12.2022
Valve just updated its list of the top new releases on Steam for November. There are the usual suspects like Crysis 2 and 3, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and Sonic Frontiers. There’s also my favorite single player game of the year, Pentiment, and a neat little pixely extraction shooter that caught...
Former Diablo Immortal devs pick ImmutableX for upcoming Web3 MMORPG
20.12.2022
Metaverse Game Studios announces partnership with blockchain gaming platform ImmutableX to power upcoming Web3 gaming title Angelic
2023's Big Games That Could Get Pushed Into 2024
19.12.2022
Video games are very hard to make, take years to finish, and require many people to work together to create them. As a result, video games are incredibly complex and more prone to delays than movies, books, or TV shows. So just because a game is set to come out in 2023 doesn’t mean it actually...
The Best Video Game Surprises Of 2022
15.12.2022
2022, as with many recent years, was a bit of a flaming trainwreck as we continued to deal with the covid-19 pandemic (and other viruses, too), soaring inflation, idiotic tech bros destroying things, and, unfortunately, so much more. But there was actually some good things that happened this year...