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2021 Was Both A Great And Terrible Year For GTA Fans
18.12.2021
Rockstar’s super popular Grand Theft Auto franchise is in a weird place in 2021. It’s a game series that remains huge, despite going years without a big, new release. Its online iteration is more popular than ever, yet if you look around Reddit and Twitter you’d assume it has no fans.Read more
The Most Underrated Final Fantasy Just Came To Game Pass
17.12.2021
When Final Fantasy XIII-2, the series’ most infamous middle child, first came out, it was received well by people who played it but overlooked by almost everyone else. Now, having just celebrated its 10th anniversary in Japan this week, one of Square Enix’s weirder and more electrifying spin-offs...
Tencent Buys Up Back 4 Blood Devs Turtle Rock, Its Sixth Studio Purchase In 2021
17.12.2021
Today, one of the largest companies in the world, Tencent, announced it acquired Turtle Rock Studios, the developers behind the recently released zombie shooter Back 4 Blood. The deal is just the latest in a long list of acquisitions over the last few years for the Chinese tech giant, including...
Halo Infinite Glitch Allows For Campaign Couch Co-op
17.12.2021
Halo Infinite may have launched without the series’ ever-popular co-op feature, but an innovative player has discovered a glitch that makes playing locally with a friend possible, albeit in a limited capacity. Read more
Halo Infinite's Next Samurai Armor Event Will Be Better, Devs Promise
17.12.2021
When Halo Infinite’s recurring “Fracture: Tenrai” event comes back in January, it’ll be significantly more generous with its rewards. That’s according to 343 Industries’ head of design, Jerry Hook, who said as much during the company’s holiday community stream on Twitch earlier this week.Read more
Why Pokémon GO Players Are Being Charged Different Prices
17.12.2021
Niantic’s recently declared intention to better communicate with Pokémon GO players isn’t exactly going well. In the last week, trainers have realized that they’re all being charged different amounts for a particular item in the game’s store, without being told why. And Niantic’s explanation to...
12 Games Killed In 2021 That Prove Preservation Is Vital
17.12.2021
2021 was a helluva year for games. Some of it good, most of it bad, and a handful of it truly disappointing, particularly around preserving older titles. Games deserve to be played in their entirety forever, regardless of when they came out, yet this year saw so many of them unceremoniously...
Snoop Dogg, Deadmau5 and NFTs — The Sandbox Alpha Game Review
17.12.2021
I came to the Sandbox Alpha for the musical experiences of Snoop Dogg and Deadmau5. It was awesome dancing with my voxelated avatar: green hair, pink sports bra, denim shorts, yellow stockings, and red shoes. All with the insane creatures around me dancing, and the feeling of indulging in a real...
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Developers Remove NFTs After Fan Uproar
17.12.2021
STALKER 2 developers GSC Game World announced yesterday that they’d be adding NFTs to the game. Public reception was, as you’d imagine, not kind.Read more
Nintendo Fixes Animal Crossing: New Horizons Glitch That Had Villagers Walk Around Buck Naked
17.12.2021
Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ days as a virtual nudist colony are no more. Nintendo has released a patch fixing a glitch that caused villagers to walk around their island paradise in their fuzzy birthday suits. Read more
Mass Effect 2 Players Suspiciously Successful At Infamous ‘Suicide Mission’
16.12.2021
Today, publisher EA released its annual “Year in Gaming” report, which details player behavior from across its portfolio of games. Most of the data are relegated to the realms of sports games, Apex Legends, and The Sims 4, but there are some juicy tidbits for Mass Effect fans, too—specifically,...
The Best Games Hidden Inside Other Games
16.12.2021
In an industry that can all too often feel like it wants to wring us of every last drop of money, there’s a special pleasure in noting those most entertaining of freebies: the games hidden inside other games. For instance, did you know the original Animal Crossing was crammed with classic...
Despite Breaking Records, Ludwig And Other Streamers Who Jumped Ship Aren't In Twitch's 2021 Recap
16.12.2021
Apparently, the rivalry between Twitch and YouTube is so cutthroat that Twitch has dipped into revisionist history with some of its former streamers. Ludwig, DrLupo, and TimTheTatman were removed from Twitch’s end of the year celebratory recap event. Read more
The Best Free Games Of 2021
16.12.2021
You may have seen me writing tons of Genshin Impact blogs around here, and that is definitely a free-to-play game that I think is outstanding and deserving of extensive coverage. However, there are actually tons of other great free-to-play games in the mobile gaming ecosystem, too. Read more
The Best Video Game Surprises Of 2021
16.12.2021
Face it: The past year has been…not great. Over the course of 2021, the global temperature rose at a once again alarming rate, Marvel released not one but two panned films, and we’ve all gotta come to terms with the sobering realization that this covid-19 pandemic might never fully end. A fitting...
Where To Find Halo Infinite’s Funniest Skull
16.12.2021
Halo games have always encouraged the player to go where they’re not supposed to go. Halo Infinite, which saw its campaign hit Xbox and PC last week, is no different. Free advice: If you haven’t done so yet, scale the Tower. It’s a fun climb, and you get a terrific view, but you’ll also unlock...
Minereum World Metaverse Is Planned to Be Launched in Q1 2022, Land Pre-Sale Is Live
16.12.2021
Minereum, the project behind the first self-mining smart contract, welcomes you to The Minereum World – an exciting and interactive play-to-earn 3D game venture where users can come together virtually in the metaverse! The goal of the game is to grab and own as much land as possible!...
Gaming Giant Nexon America Starts Accepting Bitcoin, Ethereum For In-Game Purchases
16.12.2021
Nexon America, an online gaming company and a subsidiary of the South Korean gaming giant Nexon, announced Tuesday that it has started accepting a number of crypto assets for in-game purchases as part of a deal with major crypto payment processor BitPay....
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Bungie's HR Head Steps Down, Had Reported Executive For Abuse
16.12.2021
A week after a major report from IGN detailing troubling allegations of workplace culture, crunch, and hiring practices within Bungie, the studio’s Head of HR has stepped down from her role.Read more
Video Game Publisher Wants To Buy Board Game Giant Asmodee For Over $3 Billion
16.12.2021
The Embracer Group, a collection of companies like Gearbox, THQ Nordic and Deep Silver, announced today that they’re in the process of trying to buy Asmodee, perhaps the single biggest name in specialist board gaming, for €2.75 billion (USD$3.1 billion).Read more