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Burn the tokens, keep the loot: Play-to-own games come next
7.7.2025
The collapse of play-to-earn gaming has exposed the dangers of tying fun to financial speculation. A new play-to-own model offers a sustainable future over speculative rewards
Hackers Behind $140M Brazil Banking Heist Turn to Crypto to Launder Their Loot
4.7.2025
ZachXBT estimates that between $30 million and $40 million has been swapped to crypto through OTC desks and exchanges
Xbox Execs Reportedly Raved About ‘Blade Runner Meets Destiny 2’ Loot Shooter Before Canceling It
3.7.2025
There was a lot of carnage this week at Xbox after Microsoft laid off over 9000 employees across its many divisions. People lost their jobs and some of Xbox Game Studios’ upcoming projects have been canned. This included high-profile games like the Perfect Dark reboot and Rare’s...
BioWare's Maligned Loot Shooter Anthem Will Go Offline Forever Next Year
3.7.2025
BioWare’s doomed looter shooter may have had some neat aesthetics and was a competent-enough action RPG when it wanted to be, but as we all know well by now, it was a complete disaster for the devs and publisher EA. While a planned reboot of the game was canned and everyone who’s played the game...
We Were Getting Outriders 2 And Now We're Not
1.7.2025
Last month, developer People Can Fly announced that work on a game codenamed Gemini was being suspended over issues with the publisher regarding payment and communication. The publisher was believed to be Square Enix, and fans speculated that the project in question was a sequel to Outriders,...
It's The Summer Of Star Wars: Battlefront 2 As The 8-Year-Old Shooter Breaks Steam Records And Fans Beg For A Sequel
23.6.2025
Hot off the conclusion of Andor’s incredible Rebel Alliance origin story, fans have been clamoring for a great Star Wars game to play. The most unlikely candidate of all is now filling the void: Star Wars: Battlefront 2. Once a lightning rod for controversy around pay-to-win loot boxes that...
Yes, You Can And Should Smash Up These Statues In Nightreign
3.6.2025
There are so many places to visit on Elden Ring Nightreign’s massive Limveld map that you’llyou probably feel torn between where you want to go and what you should be doing there. When you add in all the small secrets that you can stumble upon at random, things can even feel more overwhelming...
Let's Get You Some More Smithing Stones In Nightreign
2.6.2025
With its blend of the soulslike and roguelike genres, Elden Ring Nightreign can be an overwhelming game to adjust to. It takes time to figure out how everything works and where to spend your time most wisely on the map. Read more
You Should Be Pinging Loot For Your Pals In Nightreign
30.5.2025
Cooperation is the name of the game in Elden Ring Nightreign, so it’s good to know how to communicate well with your party to help one another succeed. And since loot is one of an expedition’s most important aspects, you’ll want to be certain everyone’s working together to find the best stuff...
Find And Defeat Rogue Exiles In Path Of Exile 2 For Unique Loot And Challenges
14.5.2025
As if the world of Wraeclast wasn’t tough enough to survive, what with over 100 bosses to fight in nearly Soulslike combat from an ARPG perspective. But developer Grinding Gear Games went ahead and added a new challenge in Read more
13 Things We Learned About Borderlands 4 After Today's Big Event
30.4.2025
Today, we learned a lot more about Borderlands 4 during a roughly 20-minute PlayStation State of Play dedicated exclusively to Gearbox and 2K’s upcoming sci-fi looter shooter sequel.Read more
Bungie's Ambitious Sci-Fi Extraction Shooter Marathon Launches This Year: Here's Everything We Know
12.4.2025
Marathon is looking very much like a colorful cybernetic riff on Escape from Tarkov, but with Bungie’s unique spin-on the extraction shooter genre and hopefully some big surprises along the way. The studio behind Halo and Destiny pulled back the curtain today to reveal a bunch of new information...
How To Level Up Super-Fast In Avowed
14.3.2025
You know, I’m something of an adventurer myself—that is, until the way-too-large spiders rear their ugly eyes in my direction. (Can you rear your eyes? -Pedantic Ed) To ensure fights like the one down in the Seaside Cavern in the early-game zone of the Overgrown Frontier end smoothly and without...
EA Has Done Something Wonderful That Every Major Publisher Needs To Copy
28.2.2025
The world is built on sharing. Sure, it might seem like the most counter-cultural act imaginable amidst these late-stage capitalism end-of-days horrors, but the very internet on which you’re reading these words wouldn’t exist without it. The games you play depend on it. It’s the very core of...
Bybit Exploit Loot in Motion: $497M in ETH Scattered Through Covert Transfers Over 4 Days
28.2.2025
The latest data from blockchain tracking platforms reveals that the entity behind the Bybit exploit has relocated 230,645.05 ETH (valued at $497.4 million) across multiple transactions completed during a four-day window. This calculated redistribution of ether, executed with methodical precision...
Cyber Thieves Convert a Segment of Bybit Loot Into Bitcoin
23.2.2025
In the aftermath of the $1.4 billion cybersecurity breach targeting centralized digital asset platform Bybit, onchain evidence reveals that perpetrators have systematically converted a fraction of the pilfered funds into bitcoin (BTC). Hackers Mask Tracks by Moving Bybit Heist Funds to Bitcoin This...
Hands-On With Monster Hunter Wilds, What Makes Avowed's Inventory So Great, And More Of The Week's Takes
15.2.2025
This week’s roundup of our hot takes from the past week includes a plea for Nintendo to let us buy older games again on the Switch 2 like we could in the days of the Wii’s Virtual Console instead of just locking all that stuff behind a subscription paywall and letting us pay for the privilege...
Why Some Fans Are Cheering The Return Of Loot Boxes In Overwatch 2
13.2.2025
One of the funny things about being entrenched in a game’s community for years is that you sometimes forget how it might look to someone on the outside. That happened to me this week when Blizzard announced it would be bringing loot boxes back to Overwatch 2 in Season 15 after dropping the mystery...
Path Of Exile 2 Devs Agree About The RPG's Loot Problem
10.12.2024
Path of Exile 2 is an action-RPG about customizing your hero, killing tons of enemies, and winning cool gear as a result. But a few days after the game’s massive Early Access launch, players are feeling a bit underwhelmed by the pace and size of loot drops. Path of Exile 2's developers say they...
Let’s Not Pretend: Pokémon TCG Pocket Is Promoting Gambling To Children
6.11.2024
There is a way to play the PokémonTCG on your phone or tablet that is entirely free. Not “free-to-play,” but “free to leave it with your kid and not ever worry.” While it’s not the world’s best piece of software, PokémonTCG Live is an application that lets you play the full-size, 60-card deck...