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Twitch Enrages Streamers Again With Convoluted New Revenue Share Program
15.6.2023
Twitch’s mid-life platform crisis continues. After rolling out controversial new 50/50 revenue splits for top streamers last fall, the massively popular online gaming hangout is now announcing a new “Partner Plus Program” that will return certain channels to the previous 70/30 split, but with tons...
Microsoft Is Done Making Games For Xbox One
15.6.2023
In a new interview, Xbox game studio chief Matt Booty confirmed that the company is done developing first-party games for the older Xbox One consoles, explaining that Microsoft has “moved on” from the prior-generation machine and is now focused on Xbox Series X/S. It’s yet another sign that the...
These Two New Street Fighter 6 Characters Are Taking Over The Internet
15.6.2023
Capcom’s Street Fighter series has given us some of the most recognizable and iconic game characters in history. But when attached to Street Fighter V, a game with a rocky 2016 launch it never fully recovered from, those characters got relatively little attention. Thankfully, Street Fighter 6...
Diablo Cosplay Is As Far From Hell As Possible
15.6.2023
Cinderys is a professional cosplayer from France who has been active in the scene for almost a decade now. Over the years she’s cosplayed as a bunch of Blizzard characters, from World of Warcraft to Hearthstone, but her latest Diablo work is terrifyingly good.Read more
Mysterious New GTA Online Shirt Has Fans Convinced Rockstar Is Teasing GTA 6
15.6.2023
Do you hear that? The faint sound of thousands of Grand Theft Auto fans going wild online over the latest (possible) GTA 6 conspiracy. This time it involves an odd shirt with a coded message that briefly appeared in GTA Online after the latest update. And while the shirt seems to be gone now,...
Fans Spot Striking Similarities Between Steampunk Game Trailer And BioShock Infinite's
15.6.2023
During the Summer Game Fest Xbox Showcase, developer inXile revealed its new steampunk roleplaying game called Clockwork Revolution. “New” though the game may be, the trailer had some viewers experiencing deja vu, as in some ways it appears to ape ten-year-old trailers for Irrational Games’...
Lies Of P Is Giving Steampunk Bloodborne With 60 FPS Performance
15.6.2023
FromSoftware’s Bloodborne will probably linger in your mind when playing Lies of P. While the similarities are obvious, the Pinocchio Chalamet-led Soulslike is more than just a xerox of the 2015 Victorian-era masterpiece, and the recent demo makes it clear that developer Round8 Studio is more...
Seth Rogen's One Mario Movie Sequel Request: Give Donkey Kong Pants
14.6.2023
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is officially out on DVD and Blu-ray. To promote it, Universal Pictures has released some new behind-the-scenes videos about the blockbuster animated adaptation of Nintendo’s beloved series. The videos provide some interesting insight into how the film was created,...
Video game pitch decks: how you get them 'right'!
14.6.2023
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GTA Online Just Got Its Best New Feature In Years
14.6.2023
Grand Theft Auto Online’s latest update, San Andreas Mercenaries, adds new missions and quality-of-life changes to the aging online game. However, while that content is cool and all, the best thing added in this update is probably (and surprisingly) a new menu. I know, doesn’t sound very exciting....
Overwatch 2 Can’t Afford A Season This Mid
14.6.2023
Overwatch 2 is getting its ass beat online lately and for good reason. With the exception of its Pride event, it’s been nothing but bad news for the hero shooter between Blizzard announcing it was gutting its planned PvE suite of skill trees and replayable hero missions to charging $15 for...
Twitch Streamer’s Car Gets Torched By Obsessed Viewer Who Drove 700 Miles
14.6.2023
A Twitch streamer has come forward with a traumatizing experience of how an obsessive fan—if you can even call him that—drove 700 miles to torch her car.Read more
Aww, Overwatch 2’s DnD-Inspired Season Shouts Out Critical Role
14.6.2023
Overwatch 2 has a tabletop-RPG-themed event going on right now, in some ways making explicit a connection that’s long been present between the two worlds. If you didn’t know, Cassidy, the gunslinging cowboy that’s been part of the roster since the first game launched in 2016, is voiced by Matt...
2023’s Biggest Mech Game Armored Core VI Goes All In, And It’s Great
14.6.2023
I can’t tell you what it feels like to actually play Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon. While FromSoftware’s new mech adventure is out in August, Bandai Namco wouldn’t let media actually get hands-on time with the game last week at Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest. But I did get to watch Armored...
Tears of the Kingdom: 11 Best Armor Sets To Loot ASAP
14.6.2023
Link’s a pretty fashionable guy. But he also has a number of needs from his threads beyond just looking great: increased defenses, the ability to withstand extreme temperatures, and now that he’s taken to jumpin’ off islands in the sky like a madman, having increased aerial maneuvers is pretty...
I’m Not Even A Naruto Fan But The New Fighting Game Is Turning Me Into One
13.6.2023
I’m not even supposed to be writing this preview of Naruto X Boruto Ultimate Ninja Storm Connections. I told CyberConnect2 producer Masaya Yoshizawa that if he didn’t beat me in our demo match at Summer Game Fest I wouldn’t cover the game. I didn’t want him to go easy on me, an admitted Naruto...
Uniswap Unveils Game-Changing Version 4 With Customizable Liquidity Pools via Innovative Hooks
13.6.2023
On June 13, the largest decentralized exchange (dex) in terms of global trade volume, Uniswap, published a summary of the dex platform’s Version 4 and an early implementation of the code. Uniswap states that the dex version will offer a variety of new features, including a method to customize...
High On Life Gets DLC Trailer Where Gun Voiced By Roiland Is MIA
13.6.2023
On Tuesday, during Xbox’s extended showcase event, the first trailer for High on Knife—a new DLC for comedy shooter High on Life—was shown. However, Kenny, a gun voiced by former Squanch Games CEO and Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland, is absent. Roiland resigned from the company in January...
McDonald’s Just Released A Game That Runs On Game Boy Color
13.6.2023
McDonald’s, purveyor of refrigerated cheese and meat patties, is getting into the video game business to celebrate original character Grimace’s 52nd birthday. The hairy purple blob inspired a side-scrolling platformer that runs on mobile, desktop, and most surprisingly, Game Boy Color,...
The Katamari Google Game Is Blowing Everyone's Minds
13.6.2023
People are (rightfully) losing their minds over the fact that Google has a built-in Katamari minigame that lets you roll everything on the page into a tidy ball that’d impress the King of the Cosmos. Read more