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Activision Blizzard Devs Win Better Pay And PTO For Contractors
9.11.2021
The publisher behind Call of Duty: Vanguard and World of Warcraft announced yesterday that it would be improving pay and paid-time-off for contractors at the company, including raising the minimum hourly rate to $17 and paying them even during holiday breaks. The changes came amid renewed scrutiny...
Pokémon Unite Patch To Fix Game's Most Broken Monster, Greedent The Terror
9.11.2021
When Pokémon Unite devs TiMi Studio Group announced that the next character for the game would be Greedent, many scratched their heads. Others, I presume, had to Google what generation the squirrel-like monster even hailed from. And some fans just scrunched up their noses and thought, why?Read more
Lottie From Animal Crossing Is Totally Scamming Everyone In Happy Home Paradise
9.11.2021
Animal Crossing is a series about bootstrapping your way out of debt and into wealth and happiness. Now that most ACNH players have finally escaped the yoke of Tom Nook, there’s a new grifter in town: Lottie. According to one fan who did the math, the head of the house flipping enterprise as...
Forza Horizon 5's Slo-Mo Option Is A Game-Changer
9.11.2021
Forza Horizon 5, the open-world racer from developer Playground Games, has a plethora of accessibility options. This includes text size adjustments and color blindness modes, as well as on-screen sign language interpreters coming soon. But did you know there’s also a setting to change reaction...
Oh Deer, Shino Is The Most Popular New Animal Crossing Villager From The Update
9.11.2021
Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ 2.0 update brought 16 new villagers to our island paradises, including both brand-new characters and old favorites returning from older games in the series. While each new character has their fans, there’s something about the mysteriously friendly Shino that gives...
11 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting Forza Horizon 5
9.11.2021
Forza Horizon 5, the latest massive open-world racer from Playground Games, is officially out now on Xbox and PC. At first glance, playing this racing game might seem fundamentally the same as playing any other racing game: press the right trigger to go fast, left trigger to slow down, tilt...
Get Your $25,000 Pikachu Baccarat Crystal
9.11.2021
To celebrate twenty-five years of Pokémon, Baccarat would like to sell you a Pikachu crystal for a cool $25,000. This “Pikachu Fragment” was designed by artist Hiroshi Fujiwara, who got his start as one of Japan’s first DJs and as a pioneering streetwear designer. Fujiwara has collaborated with...
PlayStation 4 Exclusive The Tomorrow Children Will Be Relaunched
9.11.2021
PlayStation 4 exclusive The Tomorrow Children is coming back to life after Q-Games, the main creative force behind the game, secured the title’s intellectual property rights from Sony. Read more
Dark Souls, Only Now It's Got Halo Guns
9.11.2021
I wrote about a Dark Souls gun mod last year, but that one was just for fun. This new one by InfernoPlus is a lot bigger and a lot more ambitious.Read more
Mass Effect DLC With Lost Source Code Returns To Legendary Edition Via Mod
9.11.2021
Back in February it was announced that Mass Effect Legendary Edition wasn’t going to be including everything in the trilogy, because the source code for a single piece of old DLC—Pinnacle Station, which we reviewed back in 2009—had been lost.Read more
Pokémon Unite's Second Season Launches With Some Great Skins
8.11.2021
The second season of Pokémon Unite is now live on mobile devices and Nintendo Switch. Dubbed Sun, Sun, Sunshine, it introduces tons of new content to the popular MOBA, including another battle pass with 90 levels for you to grind through, as well as holowear for monsters and other rewards.Read more
Scalpers Having Field Day With Animal Crossing's Rare New Villager Amiibo Cards
8.11.2021
Nintendo has once again released Amiibo Cards for Animal Crossing: New Horizons and they’ve once again sold out, leading to a second-hand market full of hassle and sky-high mark-ups. It’s perfect timing considering the game’s big 2.0 update and Happy Home Paradise DLC recently went live,...
Animal Crossing Stoners' New Obsession Is The 'Gyroid Bong'
8.11.2021
Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ substantial update has brought not only a wealth of new content, but also some old favorite items fans have longed for. This includes gyroids, those cute and unusual little decorative fixtures last seen in 2017's Pocket Camp. Yes, they’ve made a return, and...
Animal Crossing's Happy Home DLC Isn't Just Worth Buying, It's A Must-Play
8.11.2021
As the first and only paid DLC, Animal Crossing: New Horizons’s Happy Home Paradise expansion has a lot to live up to. And it does.Read more
Hackers Appear One Step Closer To Jailbreaking The PS5
8.11.2021
The PlayStation 5 only launched a year ago this week, but already hackers appear to have made massive breakthroughs in potentially jailbreaking the latest Sony console. Both theFlow0 and Fail0verflow posted screenshots on Twitter over the weekend indicating they managed to unlock the PS5’s debug...
Toothbrushing Game Pokémon Smile Gets First Update Over A Year Later
8.11.2021
Of the very many Pokémon games in circulation at the moment, perhaps Pokémon Smile is the one you’re not so aware of. Announced in June last year, then released that very same day, it is an AR mobile app designed to get kids to brush their teeth properly. Oh, and it’s really, really good. Some...
Binance CEO: Avoiding Cryptocurrency Scams, Squid Game Token and Other Defi Risks
8.11.2021
The following article was written by CZ, Binance CEO & Co-Founder. DYOR, or do your own research, is a concept I think every investor should know about. It’s as close to a golden rule as anything in the world of crypto, but it applies more even broadly to anything you’re planning...
Square Enix Sounds Keen On NFTs And Blockchain Games
8.11.2021
Earlier this year, Kotaku reported that Square Enix was getting into NFTs. At that time, the Tokyo-based game maker was dipping its toe in the non-fungible waters. Now, it looks like Square Enix is ready to take the plunge.Read more
Metal Gear Solid Games Are Being Removed Over Historical Footage
8.11.2021
Konami just announced that both Metal Gear Solid 2 and Metal Gear Solid 3 are being taken down from online shopfronts after issues emerged with “licenses for select historical archive footage used in-game”.Read more
The Week In Games: I Can't Wait To Buy Another JRPG I Will Barely Play
8.11.2021
I don’t have time for Shin Megami Tensei V. I really don’t. But I’m going to buy it, love it, play it before bed for several nights and then never touch it again. And I can’t wait. Read more