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24 Games We're Stoked For In March, Great Switch Games On Sale For Mario Day, And More Of The Week's Top News
8.3.2025
This week, we got some insight into what prompted Ubisoft to add a “canon mode”—which strips out all narrative choices in favor of adhering to one set story path—to the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Also, we looked at 24 games coming out in this fairly packed month that we can’t wait to...
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 Is Making A Big Change To How THPS4 Works
6.3.2025
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 was officially announced earlier this week and while it looks to be a great remake of some popular PS2-era skateboarding games, one big change involving timed challenges in THPS4 might be a dealbreaker for some players.Read more
Disappointed Fans Inspired Ubisoft To Create A Canon Mode For Assassin's Creed Shadows
5.3.2025
After a few delays and leaks, Ubisoft’s next main entry in the Assassin’s Creed franchise, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, is nearly here. And, in a series first, it comes with a mode that removes many choices, instead adhering to one “canonical” narrative path. Now Ubisoft has explained why this option...
XRP Ledger ‘Self-Healed’ After Brief Downtime
5.2.2025
“One possible failure mode for XRPL is if all the validators think something's wrong with the network, all refuse to send any validations,” the Ripple CTO explained
Overwatch 2 Removes Its Newest Mode From Competitive Play
31.1.2025
Overwatch 2 has what Blizzard calls “groundbreaking changes” on the way next month, but before that, it has a smaller, welcome one in the pipeline. Clash, introduced in season 12, is Overwatch 2’s newest game mode. As director Aaron Keller describes it, the mode was inspired by the original hero...
Fortnite's Music Mode Is More Like Rock Band After New Update
14.1.2025
Fortnite Festival’s new season starring digital superstar Hatsune Miku is now live and that’s cool and all. The big news from this update, however, is that you can now play with three other people on a single console and TV, which means Fortnite Festival is getting closer and closer to being...
Tight Mode: Why Browsers Produce Different Performance Results
9.1.2025
I wrote a post for Smashing Magazine that was published today about this thing that Chrome and Safari have called “Tight Mode” and how it impacts page performance. I’d never heard the term until DebugBear’s Matt Zeunert mentioned it in …
Tight Mode: Why Browsers...
Marvels Rivals Is The Hero Shooter We Didn’t Know We Needed
22.12.2024
One of 2024’s biggest success stories has been Marvel Rivals, a third-person PVP shooter starring Marvel heroes and baddies. The game has already picked up over 20 million players and shows no signs of stopping. Which is cool but also very surprising!Read more
Is Ethereum Price Going Parabolic? Long-Term Holders Signal ‘Greed Mode’
18.12.2024
During Wednesday’s U.S. trading hours, the crypto market experienced a slight downtick as Bitcoin price reverted from $108k…
Marvel Rivals' New Winter Update Is Adding An Oops All Jeff Mode
16.12.2024
Later this week, popular character shooter Marvel Rivals will launch its first big holiday-themed event. The new winter update will add new costumes for multiple characters, as well as a new Splatoon-like mode featuring only Jeff the Landshark. Read more
Assassin's Creed Shadows Will Have A 'Canon Mode' For Animus Purists
12.12.2024
Ubisoft is an strange ol’ publisher, closing down teams and killing off so many projects—but the games that do reach us tend to be the most extraordinarily accessible, replete with groundbreaking options to make the games playable for the widest numbers of people, in the most specific ways...
Fortnite's New FPS Mode Is Good, But A Bit Janky
11.12.2024
Fortnite’s latest game mode, Ballistic, plays a lot like Valorant or Counter-Strike. The mode, currently labeled as being in “Early Access,” is rough around the edges and feels more like a demo than a full game. However, Ballistic is also proof that Epic can build first-person shooters that work...
XRP Rallies 10% as Ripple's Stablecoin Gets Regulatory Approval, CEO Garlinghouse Says
10.12.2024
The approval is a necessary step towards the public launch of the RLUSD token, which is currently in test mode on Ethereum and XRP Ledger
Fortnite's New GTA-Inspired Lego Mode Is Out Later This Week
9.12.2024
Later this week, Epic will release Lego Brick Life, a GTA-inspired roleplaying game that will be playable in Fortnite. Brick Life will let you and up to 20+ other players hang out, earn money, buy a home, and party together. Read more
Gauging Bitcoin, XRP Resistance Levels After Record Price Rallies
9.12.2024
As cryptocurrencies enter price-discovery mode, options market activity can help traders identify potential resistance levels
Suicide Squad Fans Get Hyped For Deathstroke As They Wait For MIA Offline Mode
6.12.2024
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is about to head into season 4, and the players who remain are relieved to see that the newest character joining the multiverse fray is Deathstroke, and that he actually looks cool. Whether he’ll arrive solo or alongside the live-service game’s promised...
Everyone Wants a Piece of the Bitcoin Pie, Now the AI Bots Are Coming for It Too
5.12.2024
AI-focused Ethereum layer-2 Mode is the latest network to bridge to Bitcoin in an attempt to get access to deep wells of liquidity held in BTC
Everything Coming In Baldur’s Gate 3’s Eighth Big Patch
27.11.2024
Baldur’s Gate 3 is over a year old now, and developer Larian Studios is still bringing a bevy of new features to the RPG in its upcoming eighth patch. Some of these features were announced a while ago but are finally making their way to the game with this update which, it seems, is currently a...
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Gets New Photo Mode Options And A Bunch Of Bug Fixes In Latest Patch
21.11.2024
If you’ve been enjoying the return of Dragon Age with The Veilguard, there are some cool quality of life changes and bug fixes in the latest patch that went live on November 21, 2024. I’ll break them down below to let you know what you’re getting into.Read more
What Pokémon TCG Pocket Needs More Than Anything Is A Dark Mode
13.11.2024
It’s midnight. The room is pitch black. I gingerly creep into bed so as not to disturb the amorphous blob of children that may be residing somewhere near its center. I’m sleep-deprived but unable to turn my brain off. I pull out my phone and see a tiny notification out of the corner of my eye that...