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Chinese Gaming Giants Lose Eight Bethesdas In Value Amid Government Crackdown
9.9.2021
Bloomberg reports that the value of China’s largest gaming companies, Tencent and NetEase, plummeted dramatically during an overnight stock selloff, resulting in losses totaling more than $60 billion between the two. To put that in perspective, that’s about eight times what Microsoft spent...
Titanfall 2 Hacking Rumor Blown Out Of Proportion, Respawn Says
9.9.2021
Titanfall 2 hasn’t exactly had a hot girl summer. Since May, hackers have regularly hit Respawn Entertainment’s first-person shooter with direct denial of service (DDOS) attacks, making the game virtually unplayable. The situation hit a fever pitch yesterday, when viral social posts suggested...
Play-to-earn gold rush as Crypto Gaming Guild and Zebedee raise millions from VCs
9.9.2021
Play-to-earn is booming, with startups Crypto Gaming United and Zebedee closing funding rounds of $5 million and $11.5 million respectively
Waluigi's Heart-Breaking Life As A Smash Absentee
9.9.2021
Waluigi being absent from Smash has gone from curiosity to meme and right on through to genuine curiosity the longer he waits to get that call.Read more
Holy Crap, Look At Spongebob Wavedash In The Nick Fighting Game
8.9.2021
The folks behind upcoming platform fighter Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl released a glut of gameplay footage today, including a breakdown video that shows the cartoon channel’s mascot, Spongebob Squarepants, performing one of the genre’s most important movement techniques, the wavedash. And, oh...
Smash Bros.’ Most Ridiculous Tournament Is Glorious Chaos
8.9.2021
Pro-level fighting game tournaments are a joy to watch, often even when you’re unfamiliar with the game being played. The one guy gets hit, and then everybody yells, and then some cool shit happens. It’s great. While the nuances of a given game may be lost on a newcomer, that’s fine. Fighting games...
Some Of The Best Rocks In Video Games Are Actually Real
8.9.2021
I’ve spent years using free rock assets from the Unity Asset Store and the Unreal Engine Marketplace, but never thought too hard about where those assets came from. I just needed rocks in my games. Vox recently published a video about how game developers create photorealistic rocks, and I...
Epic, Bless Its Heart, Is Trying To Sell An Unreal Demo Fortnite Skin
8.9.2021
Behold the Fortnite version of Echo Windwalker! Wait, sorry, Windwalker Echo. You know, the hero from last year’s Unreal Engine 5 demo? The one that was running on a PlayStation 5? Fortnite has been trying to convince me to add Windwalker Echo to my slowly growing collection of game skins since...
Psychonauts 2 Hides An Mpreg Secret By The Creator of Adventure Time
8.9.2021
Letting Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward near your project is always going to be a risk. For Double Fine and the recently released Psychonauts 2, that collaboration appears to have resulted in a crudely animated Easter egg in which, well, central character Raz is pregnant.Read more
Suda51 Encourages Fans To Cop Bootleg No More Heroes Shirts
8.9.2021
During a recent interview, Grasshopper Manufacture CEO Suda “Suda51” Goichi was asked whether he plans to produce apparel for No More Heroes 3, the superbly absurd hack-and-slash his studio released two weeks ago. His answer? No, but feel free to grab bootleg tees wherever you can find them.Read...
Maybe Don’t Challenge Justin Wong To A $10,000 Marvel vs. Capcom 2 Match
7.9.2021
Talented Marvel vs. Capcom 2 player Butra “Roundhouse” Soinak recently challenged fighting game legend Justin Wong to a $10,000 money match. And while it may have been Labor Day in the United States, it didn’t take much work from Wong to quickly close out the set and walk away with thousands...
Dear God, Pokémon Unite Is Making Powerhouse Blissey Even Stronger
7.9.2021
The next Pokémon Unite update is all about buffing Blissey, the developers announced this morning.Read more
Gaming Token ‘Adventure Gold’ Listed Amid ‘Loot’ NFT Buzz
7.9.2021
">OKEx.Designed as a game token for future Loot-related games, the Adventure Gold token was airdropped to Loot NFT holders, with each Loot NFT giving the owner the right to claim 10,000 AGLD. And with a token price at press time (14:52 UTC) of USD 2.95, the airdrop was worth at least a ha
World Of Warcraft Achievements Remove References To Hoes, Giant Sacks
7.9.2021
In late July, in response to California’s lawsuit accusing Activision Blizzard of fostering an environment of harassment and discrimination against female employees, Blizzard announced it was taking steps to remove inappropriate content and references from World of Warcraft. Two of those changes...
Alan Wake Is Getting Remastered, And It Is About Damn Time
7.9.2021
Today, it was announced that Epic Games will be publishing a remaster of the 2010 Xbox cult classic Alan Wake later this fall on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation. The company had previously announced a deal with Remedy Games, the development studio behind the bureaucracy-set, blockbuster third-person...
China's New Gaming Restrictions Have Already Been Circumvented
7.9.2021
New regulations aimed at players under 18 went into effect in China starting September 1. These restrictions limit young players to one hour of gaming from Friday to Sunday and include public holidays. Inevitable workarounds have already appeared. Read more
After 15 Years, Bemani Composer TAG Says He's Leaving Konami
6.9.2021
For the past fifteen years, one constant for Konami’s Bemani music game series has been the musical stylings of composter Yasuhiro “TAG” Taguchi. Today, he announced his is leaving the Tokyo-based game company.“I’ve now decided to go freelance as a composer after being employed at my company...
Gorgeous Hand-Drawn Game Guides Kickstarter Cancelled By Nintendo
6.9.2021
Hand-Drawn Game Guides creator Philip Summers knew it was a legal risk to launch his gorgeous, story book-style Nintendo game guides on Kickstarter, but it was a risk he was willing to take. When you pour through all the gorgeous artwork of his unofficial Metroid, Contra, Ninja Gaiden and Legend...
It's 2021 And I Can Still Be Impressed Seeing Skyrim Modded To Hell And Back
6.9.2021
I wrote a short thing in 2012 about a copy of Skyrim that was running 100 mods at once, and I know you can’t see the data on the post itself, but it was at the time one of the most popular stories to have ever been published on the site.Read more
343 Is Changing Halo Infinite's Motion Tracker To Be More Like The Old Games
5.9.2021
On Friday, 343 Industries released a lengthy post summarizing many of the changes, fixes, and improvements made to Halo Infinite after receiving tons of feedback from its technical preview in August. One of the biggest changes is that the motion tracker is being tweaked and will operate more like...