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Chaos Erupts As Team Fortress 2 Jacks Player Count Up To 100
27.7.2023
Team Fortress 2 has now been with us for over 15 years, and for some reason, developer Valve just decided to jack the maximum number of players who can join a server at once up to 100. Valve doesn’t actually recommend you play with that many people, and warns that the game doesn’t properly support...
Looks Like More People Played A 13-Year-Old Call of Duty Game This Weekend Than Halo Infinite
17.7.2023
In a surprise move, Activision has revived the multiplayer servers for a number of Xbox 360-era Call of Duty games, and it’s proved to be a popular decision. In fact, this past weekend, Xbox 360 Call of Duty games reportedly had more players than both Halo Infinite and Battlefield 2042...
Bungie Explains Why Destiny 2 Keeps Breaking
30.6.2023
Destiny 2 used to have very little downtime. Now, the sci-fi MMO goes offline at least once a week, sometimes more, as error codes and unplanned outages prevent players from logging on and completing their weekly quests, challenges, and loot drops. Now Bungie has finally provided some answers,...
Two Russians Charged for Infiltrating Mt Gox and Operating Illicit Crypto Exchange, BTC-e
9.6.2023
In a statement issued on Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) revealed that two Russian individuals have been accused of infiltrating a cryptocurrency exchange and running an unlawful exchange. Reportedly, the pair gained unauthorized access to Mt Gox’s servers from 2011 to 2014...
Fortnite Fans Mourn As Season 4 Vaults Chug Splash And Other Great Healing Items
9.6.2023
Fortnite just debuted its latest season, which features dinos and Transformers (well, Optimus Prime, anyway) on an island where vast new sunken wilds have been revealed. There’s a new battle pass to grind, new skins to unlock, a new map, new augments, and new weapons and items to discover. That’s...
Blockchain-Based Re-Usable KYC ‘Particularly Valuable in Web3’ — Cheqd CEO Fraser Edward
28.5.2023
According to Fraser Edward, the CEO and co-founder of the public permissionless network, Cheqd, one of the main hurdles faced when attempting to move data stored on Web2 servers to Web3 is “establishing a clear and scalable revenue model.” Edward however suggested overcoming this hurdle...
Blizzard ‘Confident’ Diablo IV Won't Be Broken At Launch (For Real This Time)
17.5.2023
Players are more nervous than ever these days about games launching in poor states. And with a not-so-great history of busted Diablo launches, Blizzard knows a lot of people are worried that its upcoming, always-online action RPG Diablo IV might be the next AAA game to crash and burn on release...
FTX Lawsuit Against Shaq Takes a Wild Turn: Court Documents Allegedly Thrown at NBA Star’s Car
10.5.2023
In a recent court submission, legal representatives for basketball icon Shaquille O’Neal, commonly referred to as Shaq, claim he was not duly served in the FTX class-action lawsuit. As per the document, servers allegedly hurled the court documents at Shaq’s car, ultimately landing...
Shaquille O'Neal claims process servers 'tossed' FTX legal papers at his moving car
9.5.2023
The NBA star appeared in a June 2022 commercial saying he was “all in” on FTX, one of many endorsements that led to a class-action lawsuit following the exchange's collapse
Netflix’s Love Is Blind Live Failure Had Big 'Game Servers Are Down' Energy
18.4.2023
On April 16, Netflix viewers looking to enjoy the Love Is Blind live reunion special had to endure what so many live-service gamers have gone through before: Upon logging in at the promised kick-off time of 5 p.m. PT, would-be viewers were greeted not by the special but a perpetual “It’s almost...
Popular Survival Game Is Shutting Down And Forcing Fans To Buy A 'Next-Gen' Upgrade
3.4.2023
Ark: Survival Evolved was humming along mostly fine until, just like that, the open-world survival crafting game was thrown into chaos with delays, server shutdowns, and an incredibly confusing “next-gen” upgrade bundle. Now fans will basically have to purchase the game all over again if they want...
Blizzard Warns Diablo IV Open Beta Will Also Be A Mess At First
23.3.2023
Ahead of tomorrow’s Diablo IV open beta, Blizzard warns that—as was the case last weekend—players will likely suffer from long waits and other server issues as even more folks than last weekend all queue up to try to play the super-hyped sequel.Read more
Teen Detained After Playing On ISIS-Themed Roblox Servers
22.2.2023
A 16-year-old boy has been detained by Singaporean authorities under the country’s strict new terror laws, after he was found to have been playing on ‘multiple Islamic State-themed servers on Roblox’.Read more
Yet Another Online Game Is Shutting Down, Devs Promise 'Private Server' PC Version
3.2.2023
What a week. It was only Tuesday that we wrote about Rumbleverse, a battle royale game that was shutting down less than six months after launch. Now, on Thursday, we’ve got another, only this time it’s Knockout City.Read more
Bungie Explains Destiny 2's Recent 20-Hour Outage
27.1.2023
Two days ago, Bungie turned off the Destiny 2 servers while the studio looked into a problem that had players apparently losing progress on in-game challenges. This outage lasted a bit longer than everyone expected, with the free-to-play loot shooter remaining offline for nearly 20 hours. So what...
Epic Is Cutting The Servers For 17 Older Online Games
14.12.2022
Fortnite developer Epic Games announced today that it will no longer provide online service or servers for 17 older games, including six from the Unreal series dating back as far as 1998, and it will end access to some additional games entirely. The shutdowns are already starting to be enacted,...
NFTs, Crypto Banned From GTA Online Servers
22.11.2022
An update to publisher Take-Two’s “legal enforcement policy” for Grand Theft Auto Online was made late last week, which sought to clarify a whole bunch of boring legal and rights stuff, but which is also specifically cracking down on the sales of NFTs within the game.Read more
EA Shutting Down Servers For Loads Of Very Good, Very Old Games
18.10.2022
Electronic Arts has moved quietly to begin the process of shutting down the online servers for a bunch of old games, some of them absolute classics, some you would be forgiven for having forgotten all about.Read more
7 Tips For Overwatch 2 Beginners Determined To Win
7.10.2022
Thanks to a bunch of funny people, the most difficult aspect of Overwatch 2 right now is probably just getting into the damn game. But if you’re new to this franchise, what awaits is a whole suite of heroes with unique abilities that mesh together into a hectic first-person shooter in which...
Metaverse firm implements NFTs into its Minecraft and GTA 5 servers
19.9.2022
“We wanted to show Mojang that it could be done in a way that benefited them and benefited their player base,” said MyMetaverse CEO Simon Kertonegoro