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Roblox Goes Public, Wall Street Decides It's Worth Six Bethesdas
11.3.2021
The Roblox Corporation, maker of the online game creation platform Roblox, went public yesterday, selling shares in the company on the New York Stock Exchange for the first time since it was founded back in 2004. It ended the day trading at just under $70, giving it a valuation of $45 billion,...
EA Investigating Claims An Employee Has Been Selling Rare Items
11.3.2021
EA makes most of its FIFA money from the game’s Ultimate Team mode, where fans spend real money in attempts to unlock elite players. Today, it’s being alleged that these lucrative items are being sold privately to users by employees within EA Sports.Read more
STALKER 2 Might Get Mod Support On Xbox
10.3.2021
STALKER developer GSC Game World is currently investigating the possibility of including mod support for the upcoming sequel on Xbox Series X/S.Read more
World Of Warcraft's First Player-Voted Mount Is A Big Ol' Tree You Can Get For Free
10.3.2021
Last year Blizzard held a poll to determine what sort of ride World of Warcraft players wanted as a special community mount. We chose the Wandering Ancient, and now that choice has borne fruit, or in this case, a whole damn tree, free now for everyone who owns the Shadowlands expansion. Read more
Marvel's Avengers Will (Finally) Allow You To Replay The Campaign
10.3.2021
Fans of Marvel’s Avengers want just one thing, and it’s about to become a reality. No, it’s not a meaningful loot grind, nor a newfound surplus of engaging activities. Look, fine, maybe Avengers fans want more than one thing, but a big one is landing next week: You’ll finally be able to replay...
Dozens Of Rust Servers Wiped Out In Data Center Fire
10.3.2021
A fire that broke out overnight in Strasbourg, France destroyed one of OVHcloud’s data centers and damaged a second, Reuters reports. The French government and Centre Pompidou, which houses a public information library and modern art museum, had their data affected by the fires, as did Facepunch...
Overwatch Casually Rolls Out Xbox Series X/S Enhancements
10.3.2021
Yesterday’s Overwatch update was all about the PachiMarchi Challenge and that hideous and/or awesome new Roadhog skin, but next-gen Xbox owners got a little something extra with the update: new graphics options for Series X/S consoles, from 4K60 to blazing-fast 120Hz. Read more
Counter-Strike Was Accidentally Removed From Steam Today
10.3.2021
Earlier today, anyone trying to find or play Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on Steam ran into a weird surprise: the game was missing. Just...gone.Read more
Watch Dogs Legion’s Co-Op Isn’t Enough To Bring Us Back To The Game
10.3.2021
As a multiplayer game, Watch Dogs: Legion is pretty lonely. Yes, you can roam freely on a vast open-world map alongside other players, but most of the points of interest are for single-player activities. The competitive arena, while appropriately frenetic, currently feels anemic. And the tentpole...
Destiny 2 Players Stomp Alien Ship To Death
9.3.2021
The Fallen Skiff never saw it coming.Read more
SpongeBob Players Discover Filthy Game Discs Make Speedrunning Tricks Easier
9.3.2021
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom may be one of the most improbable video games of all time, a licensed project that turned out to be both a great game and a worthwhile challenge for the speedrunning community. But the absurdity doesn’t stop there: SpongeBob speedrunners recently...
NBA Player Drops Antisemitic Slur During Call Of Duty: Warzone Stream
9.3.2021
Miami Heat center and FaZe Clan member Meyers Leonard apparently hates being sniped in Call of Duty: Warzone, so much so that he referred to a long-range online opponent as a “kike bitch” during a Twitch session Monday night.Read more
Now You Can Play With Sonic The Hedgehog's Pretty Head
9.3.2021
Sega has teamed up with toymaker Tomy to give Sonic fans a 15-inch plush hedgehog head. It costs $39 and is a Target exclusive, just like a real hedgehog head. Read more
Oblivion NPC Dialogue Is The Greatest Thing On The Internet
9.3.2021
I never want to find out the true origins of Whacked-Out Entertainment’s Oblivion NPC Dialogue videos. To find out would be to break the magic. Because this is magic in its purest form. It’s a guy called Greg Thompson, and his relationship with a disembodied voice, all presented as if scenes from...
X-COM: UFO Defense Would Have Been Canned If Its Creators Hadn’t Secretly Revolted
9.3.2021
Monsters in the Dark: The Making of X-COM: UFO Defense tells the story of the early years of legendary strategy game designer Julian Gollop and the making of the original X-COM, and is funding now on Kickstarter. In this excerpt from the book, MicroProse’s acquisition by Spectrum Holobyte places...
V1 Interactive Shuts Down Less Than A Year After Releasing Disintegration
8.3.2021
V1 Interactive, the studio behind the real-time strategy and first-person shooter hybrid game Disintegration, is shutting down after five years.Read more
Tips For Playing Loop Hero
8.3.2021
A lot of people have started playing Loop Hero. How do I know this? It hit 50,000 concurrent users on Steam over the weekend. I was one of them. I’ve now put over 25 hours into the deck-building roguelite, and I have some tips for everyone else who’s just getting started with it.Read more
Call of Duty's Zombie Easter Eggs Were Too Hard, So Cold War Season 2 Is Simplifying Things
8.3.2021
Secrets have long been a part of the Call of Duty Zombies formula. But while players have loved hunting for Easter eggs to reveal new bits of lore, according to Black Ops Cold War developer Treyarch, very few players find these secrets in-game. So for its latest take on zombies, Treyarch...
The Most Anticipated Games of 2021 That Might Actually Come Out This Year
8.3.2021
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Regulators Approve Microsoft's $7.5 Billion Acquisition Of Bethesda Parent Company Zenimax Media
8.3.2021
Microsoft’s $7.5 billion purchase of Zenimax Media, parent company of Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, and Doom maker Bethesda, has cleared another set of hurdles, winning approval to proceed from both the European Commission and US Securities and Exchange Commissions.Read more