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Homeworld Is Being Turned Into A Tabletop RPG
26.7.2021
Homeworld, a series known mostly for its gorgeous big spaceships but also partly for its gorgeous big landships, is being turned into a character-driven tabletop RPG courtesy of Modiphius Entertainment.Read more
The Week In Games: Butterfly In The Sky, I Can Go Twice As High
25.7.2021
It’s time to take to the skies via your Xbox Series X or S, because Microsoft Flight Simulator is out this week on the shiny next-gen Xbox. Read more
Valve Says It Hasn't Found A Game That The Steam Deck Can't Handle
25.7.2021
Valve’s Steam Deck is a powerful piece of hardware, based on the specs released. According to Valve, it’s powerful enough to play everything the company has tested on it at 30 fps or more. Read more
Someone Brought A Dream SMP Minecraft Flag To An Anti-Vax Rally
24.7.2021
Today in London, a large a rally was held as part of a series of global gatherings against masks, vaccine passports, and lockdowns. And for some reason, a person at Saturday’s event was spotted waving around a flag connected to a popular Minecraft roleplay server. Read more
EVGA Is Replacing All RTX 3090 Cards Killed By Amazon's New World
24.7.2021
Earlier this week, folks who were playing the closed beta for New World using a high-end EVGA RTX 3090 GPU began sharing stories that the expensive cards were getting bricked by the game. Now, it’s been confirmed that EVGA, the GPU maker behind the cards that failed, is going to replace all those...
Rangers Protocol launches Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible testnet
23.7.2021
The project is branding its testnet as useful to “new developers without blockchain background knowledge."
Google's Olympic Doodle Is An Entire JRPG
23.7.2021
Today’s isn’t the first time a Google Doodle has been a game, but this is surely the most intricate so far. Today, if you open a new Chrome page or begin a search, you can click on a pixel-art icon that starts an Olympic-themed JRPG, complete with anime sequences by Studio 4°C, played right in your...
Argentinian Province Misiones Plans to Issue Its Own Stablecoin
23.7.2021
The Argentinian province of Misiones plans to issue its own stablecoin in the future. This is one of the objectives that a recently approved law, the Missionary Financial Innovation Program with Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Technology, proposes. Misiones will also use a blockchain to issue...
GameCube Emulator Now Has A Built-In Game Boy Advance
23.7.2021
One of the best, but sadly least-used features of the Nintendo GameCube was its ability to talk to a Game Boy Advance. A few games used it, some exclusively, but now a lot more people can hopefully enjoy the idea with the release of a new version of popular GameCube emulator Dolphin.Read more
You Can Get Vintage Game Magazines Delivered To Your Doorstep
22.7.2021
Bright, colorful, choked with ads, and filled with articles dated before they even left the publisher’s warehouse, retro video game magazines are delightful little static moments in video game history preserved on paper. The Video Game History Foundation’s vintage magazine subscription service...
Former Ethereum Developer Virgil Griffith Arrested for Signing Into His Coinbase Account: Report
21.7.2021
According to reports stemming from investigative journalist Matthew Russell Lee, from Inner City Press, former Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith has violated the terms of his bail and has been taken into custody. According to the reports, the U.S. Attorney’s Office revoked Griffith’s...
Amazon's New MMO Is Killing Some High-End PC Graphics Cards
21.7.2021
Amazon Games’ oft-delayed MMO New World launched its closed beta yesterday ahead of its August 31 launch. Thousands of players clogged the servers of the historical fantasy game, causing long login queues across all game worlds. Some players got a lot more than they bargained for, however,...
Zoom Adds Multiplayer Games, But Not The Ones You Want
21.7.2021
Chances are that before March 2020, you’d never heard of Zoom, the video conferencing software. By July 2021, it’s pretty much become the generic noun for such technology. And as of today, it’s offering games.Read more
PC Game Removes Denuvo DRM Before It Even Launches
21.7.2021
Humankind, one of my most anticipated games of 2021, was going to have Denuvo acting as its digital rights management (DRM). But after its developers found that it was impacting performance, they took it straight out.Read more
Netflix's Video Game Service Is Saying All The Right Things
21.7.2021
As part of the company’s latest earnings report, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and Chief Product Officer Greg Peters jumped on an investor phone call to talk about loads of things related to the future of the company. While discussing one of those things, their impending detour into video games, things...
Early Wiimote Designs Uncovered In Leaked Nintendo Emails
20.7.2021
It’s been quite some time since we’ve heard anything about the so-called “Gigaleak,” a treasure trove of internal Nintendo data that proliferated online in 2020, but that changed today with the release of a new batch of leaked files. Anyone interested in Nintendo Wii Remote prototypes?Read more
Crypto.com deploys its Ethereum Virtual Machine chain testnet
20.7.2021
Running on a proof-of-authority consensus algorithm, Cronos is powered by Ethermint, a proof-of-stake chain interoperable with Ethereum and EVM-compatible chains
Infamous 'Lost' Nintendo Mean Girls Game Now Fully Revealed
20.7.2021
In the late 2000s, 505 Games and Crush Digital Media planned to release a Nintendo DS game based on Mean Girls, the coming-of-age comedy starring Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams. However, there’s no proof that the game ever came out, leaving many expert DS observers to regard the game as “lost...
PC Gamer Mods PS4 Controller With Keyboard Switches
20.7.2021
One of the most popular ways for manufacturers to add extra inputs to game controllers is positioning four paddle-shaped buttons on the back. Redditor Styroor took that idea, grabbed some basic tools, and created a new type of DualShock 4: one with backside buttons. It looks a little rough,...
A Bunch Of Great Indie Games Are Coming To Game Pass
20.7.2021
Pour one out for my backlog and maybe yours, too. Arguably too many promising indie games are coming to Xbox Game Pass. Also, Microsoft Flight Sim will finally lift off on console, at least for those with next-gen Xboxes. Here’s everything coming to Game Pass over the next few weeks.Read more