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Call of Duty’s Warzone Has Seen Better Days
22.1.2021
Call of Duty’s battle royale Warzone is just under a year old. When it launched in March of 2020, I praised the 150-player online game for smooth gameplay, simplified mechanics, and fast-paced action. But all of the features that once made Warzone one of the best battle royales to drop into...
Indian Doctors Warn of Illegal Covid-19 Vaccine Sales for Bitcoin: Citizens Urged to Wait for Government Approved Vaccine
14.1.2021
Indian doctors have warned that the sale of unauthorized Covid-19 vaccines on the black market, where vendors ask for bitcoin as payment, is illegal. According to the doctors, the unsanctioned marketing of the vaccine to the elite is prevalent in the state of Karnataka. Some doctors say the Indian...
Japan-Exclusive Yakuza PSP Game Gets Fan Translation
12.1.2021
The popularity of the Yakuza franchise has exploded in the United States over the last few years, but we’ve mostly been getting games in the main series. Japan, on the other hand, has enjoyed a fair few exclusive spin-offs since the first game launched in 2005, one of which just got a...
Custom Black PS5s Go On Sale, Then Don't, After Website Claims "Credible Threats To [Their] Safety"
11.1.2021
Last week, a website popped up promising to sell brand new PS5 consoles that would be purchased, painted black, then resold for a $100 premium. That’s no longer going to happen.Read more
The State Of Diversity In Big Budget Video Games
5.1.2021
When I think about diversity in last year’s crop of big-budget games I can see the bright spots. Some of PlayStation’s marquee games, for example, featured some of the most diverse casts I’ve seen with men of color and queer women front and center as main characters. But there’s still work to...
NYT Study: Coinbase Underpaid Female and Black Employees at Much Larger Rates Than Those in the Technology Industry
1.1.2021
An analysis performed by the New York Times of internal pay data at cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase unveiled disparities in salaries, showing their women and Black employees were underpaid. Coinbase Underpaid Women and Black Employees, Claims NYT Study According to the report, women employees were...
Coinbase Underpaid Women, Black Employees, NY Times Reports
30.12.2020
The Times' data included pay details for most of Coinbase’s roughly 830 employees at the end of 2018
Call Of Duty's 1980s Shopping Mall Map Gets The Little Details Right
28.12.2020
Maybe it’s the 2020 pandemic blues, but I can’t get enough of Black Ops Cold War’s retro shopping mall map. “The Pines” is a standard 6v6 multiplayer map that was added earlier this month with the launch of Cold War’s Season One. It’s a New Jersey-based mall filled with retail flashbacks. I’ve...
Cryptonews Rewind 2020: Q1 - Missile Strike, COVID-19, Black Thursday
28.12.2020
Here is what happened in the Cryptoworld in the first quarter of this year:
Total crypto market capitalization in Q1
January
The year started with Ethereum (ETH)'s Muir Glacier, announced to be a successful upgrade on the Ethereum mainnet, and the Cryptoverse wondered if Ethereum 2.0 would happen...
Black Christmas for trader who misses out on $1.8 million in 1inch tokens
27.12.2020
A crypto trader's scheme to win big from the 1inch airdrop goes haywire
Sunday's Best Deals: Belei Skincare Sale, Killer Queen Black, 16GB DDR4 XPG RAM, Nintendo Switch Anker Powerbank, 1080p Webcam, Bathroom Organizers, and More
27.12.2020
A 1080p webcam and a sale on Belei skincare products lead Sunday’s best deals.Read more
Save Over 40% on a Copy of Killer Queen Black or a Switch Portable Charger Right Now at Best Buy
27.12.2020
Killer Queen Black | $8 | Best BuyAnker PowerCore Nintendo Switch Portable Charger | $50 | Best Buy Read more
You Can (Carefully) Pet The Zombie Dogs In Black Ops Cold War
22.12.2020
I love when games give me the option to pet dogs, and surprisingly, you can pet the Plaguehounds in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War’s Zombies mode. But unless you use a specific weapon effect, you’d never even know you had the option to pet them.Read more
How should investors value DeFi projects? A new paper might have some answers
21.12.2020
A recent paper from a team of DeFi researchers proposes a new conceptual framework for liquidity mining
Sunday's Best Deals: Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Razer Kraken Headsets, Anker Power Bank, Hand Sanitizer, Casserole Dish Holder, K-Beauty Brand Mamonde Products, and More
20.12.2020
Discounted Razer Kraken headsets and Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War a lead Sunday’s best deals.Read more
Call of Duty Season One Brings Much-Needed Maps To Cold War, But Warzone's 'New' Map Doesn't Quite Work
18.12.2020
Call of Duty’s Season One arrived earlier this week, bringing an ambitious number of new maps and modes to Black Ops Cold War and Warzone, as well as integrating the new level progression system into last year’s Modern Warfare. New maps were sorely needed and are appreciated, but the large rollout...
A New Invisibility Glitch Is Wreaking Havoc In Call Of Duty: Warzone
17.12.2020
Call of Duty: Warzone players are getting merc’d by invisible foes thanks to the game’s latest helicopter glitch, and they aren’t happy about.Read more
Our Favorite Comic Moments of 2020
16.12.2020
While 2020 posed more than its fair share of significant challenges for virtually everyone working within the entertainment industry, comics in particular stood as an example of creative teams adapting on the fly—and doing their damndest to keep telling compelling stories at a time when people...
Marvel's Weird New Multiplayer Mobile Game Goes Live
16.12.2020
Available worldwide today for iOS and Android devices, Marvel Realm of Champions is an online team-based brawler that taps into 2015's Secret Wars comic crossover to give players access to strange, alternate-dimension versions of their favorite heroes. Read more
Using CSS Custom Properties to Adjust Variable Font Weights in Dark Mode
10.12.2020
Black isn’t always slimming.
When recently testing a dark mode option for one of my sites, I experienced first-hand the issue that Robin Rendle addresses in this article. All of my page text — headings and body copy — appeared to bulk up when I switched to dark mode. And it didn’t matter what fonts...