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Twitch Stop Sign Stream Temporarily Stops After Address Leaks, Neighbors Receive Pizzas
26.3.2021
This week on Twitch, a stop sign became a saga. Stopsigncam, a 24/7 stream of a single intersection in Salem, Massachusetts where drivers regularly blow through a stop with no concern for their lives or others, blew up thanks to a viral TikTok. But at the peak of its popularity, it went...
Steam Flat-Out Refuses To Sell Sleazy Pick-Up Game Super Seducer 3
22.3.2021
The third game in dating guru and author Richard La Ruina’s Super Seducer series of full-motion-video dating sims will not be releasing on Steam, because the service does not “ship sexually explicit images of real people,” just tons and tons of anime porn. Read more
Please Enjoy Breath Of The Wild In 8K (If You Can)
18.3.2021
A few years back I was marvelling at Breath of the Wild in 4K, now we are all free to admire the game running in 8K, and with some (shaded) ray tracing to boot.Read more
Denuvo DRM Is On The PlayStation 5
11.3.2021
Controversial digital rights management tool Denuvo has long been a factor in the PC market, but it’s now quietly a part of the PlayStation 5 as well, with news that the DRM has been added to the console’s “Tools and Middleware program”.Read more
Valve Bans 'Very Positive' Developer For Trying To Trick Steam Users
17.2.2021
Emoji Evolution is a puzzle game on Steam about combining weird symbols. Or at least it was: Valve recently removed it from the storefront and banned its creator’s developer account after apparently discovering how they were exploiting Steam’s layout to try to trick people into playing...
Something’s Fishy About This Steam Game’s ‘Very Positive’ Reviews
10.2.2021
Emoji Evolution is a simple-looking puzzle game in which you “combine different elements to find a new one” in order to—and wow, this really escalates—“solve the main dilemma of humanity.” It seems like Steam users like it pretty well...or do they?Read more
Valve Fined $4 Million Over Steam Controller Patent Infringement
3.2.2021
SCUF has scored a major win in their patent infringement trial over Valve, with a jury awarding $US4 million to the third-party controller manufacturer over the sale of the Steam Controller.Read more
Discord's r/WallStreetBets Ban Wasn't A Conspiracy, Just A Demonstration Of Platforms' Power
28.1.2021
After a wild ride that took it off the tracks and onto the goddamn Rainbow Road from Mario Kart, the GameStop stock train appears to finally be pulling back into the station. People are blaming market manipulation from stock trading apps like Robinhood for this, but they’re also lumping in a name...