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Modder Sorta Gets Half-Life 2 Running On Switch (It's Actually Portal)
30.6.2022
So, Portal: The Companion Collection, a bundle of Valve’s 3D puzzle-platformers Portal and Portal 2, just dropped on the Nintendo Switch. But not long after its surprise release during this week’s Direct Mini Partner Showcase, a modder named OatmealDome has already figured out a way to get...
The Steam Deck's Specs Have Changed, And Nobody Noticed Until Now
30.6.2022
Anyone who bought one of Valve’s Steam Decks at launch got a very particular model of solid state drive installed in their device. Anyone buying one more recently has received a different drive, one that’s potentially slower.Read more
Sources: Unity Laying Off Hundreds Of Staffers
29.6.2022
Unity, the company behind the popular game development engine of the same name, has recently laid off hundreds of staffers, multiple sources tell Kotaku.Read more
NFT Pokémon Clone Recovers From $600 Million Hack, Ready To Chew Players Up Again
29.6.2022
Axie Infinity, the play-to-earn, decidedly exploitative, crypto Neopets, has reopened its proprietary Ronin blockchain bridge after unintentionally exposing its users to a $600 million hack in March.Read more
Xbox Head Defends Bethesda In Wake Of Crunch Allegations
28.6.2022
At an all-hands meeting on Thursday, Xbox addressed the growing employee concerns about labor conditions at Bethesda Game Studios and its parent company, ZeniMax. Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios, said he was “confident” that the studio was not crunching, and that it was “unfair” to attribute...
Valve Is Doubling Steam Deck Deliveries, Check Your Emails
28.6.2022
For those of you who’ve been longingly (...or jealously) watching as a lucky few get to play around with their fancy, new Steam Decks, well, I’ve got some good news. Valve has announced it will start sending out Q3 Steam Deck reservation emails later this week. And, it also confirmed it’s ramping...
‘Please Don’t’ Mod The Steam Deck’s SSD, Valve Warns
27.6.2022
Valve’s Steam Deck is a cool little handheld PC you probably don’t wanna modify too much. However, if the creative juices start flowing and you feel the need to tinker with it, Valve user experience designer Lawrence Yang is at least advising against a mod that increases the literal size of...
RIP Bernie Stolar, Who Helped Launch Both The PlayStation And Dreamcast
27.6.2022
Bernie Stolar, one of the most important video game executives of the 1990s, has passed away at the age of 75, GamesBeat reports.Read more
Hardware Worth $1.9 Million Stolen in Russia’s Crypto Mining Capital
25.6.2022
Russian law enforcement is looking into the alleged theft of mining hardware valued at around $1.9 million. The powerful computing equipment disappeared from a crypto mining hotel in Irkutsk, the owners of which have been accused of large scale fraud. 100 Russians Lose Mining Machines Worth...
Despite Historic Crashes, Video Games Aren’t Over NFTs Just Yet
24.6.2022
We were so close. As the NFT market suffered one meteoric crash after another, and as some crypto-based games lost money by the hundreds of millions, it seemed for a second there that the gaming industry might come to its senses. But no. This week alone saw two major parties unveiling a commitment...
Goodbye Zachtronics, Developers Of Very Cool Video Games
24.6.2022
On July 5, Zachtronics will be releasing Last Call BBS, a collection of stylish little puzzle games wrapped up in a retro PC gaming vibe. After 11 years in business (and even longer outside of commercial releases), a time which has seen the studio develop a cult following almost unrivalled in indie...
Crypto Miners Are Dumping Tons Of GPUs, So Maybe You Can Finally Get One
23.6.2022
The crypto market is continuing to fall, which has led a ton of miners to exit the market or to downscale their operations, thus finding themselves in possession of valuable computer components that they now no longer need. Some such miners, many from China and South Asia (where electricity...
Thank You, PS Plus, For Making My Backlog Even Bigger
22.6.2022
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Bobby Kotick Is Staying On Activision Blizzard's Board, Ew
22.6.2022
Just yesterday, Activision Blizzard shareholders voted to approve a report looking into the company’s anti-harassment efforts. While the company itself is “carefully considering” that, stockholders also gave the green light to the Board of Directors nominees, which included shitty CEO Bobby Kotick....
Xbox Game Pass Summer Releases Are Heating Up
21.6.2022
Xbox Game Pass has had a rocky few months, seeing it lose major games and failing to add marquee additions to plug the gaps. But on the heels of Xbox’s big marketing blitz—including a promise that 50 games will hit Xbox over the next year, many on Game Pass—the popular games-on-demand service...
This Free Low-Res Six-Color Game Will Take Over Your Day
20.6.2022
There’s a reason you subscribe to some developers’ Itch.io feeds. Ismael Rodriguez is an excellent example, who released the wonderful Below The Ocean last year. Into my emails pinged an update for a new, free game, Toy Cavers, and I’m just so pleased it did.Read more
BIS to launch market intelligence platform amid stablecoin, DeFi collapse
19.6.2022
BIS’s cryptocurrency market intelligence platform will be launched under the Eurosystem Centre initiative to provide vetted data about crypto projects
Play These Fantastic Free Games On Steam To Fill Your Long Weekend
17.6.2022
Here we find ourselves at another happy Friday, so to get your post-work life up and running as you engage weekend mode, I’ve put together a dainty little list of five noteworthy, totally free games on Steam. Read more
The Story Of 2022's Biggest Video Game*
15.6.2022
In 2015 mega-publisher Electronic Soft released the blockbuster game BloodDeath: DeathBlood, a sequel to 2009's wildly successful BloodDeath. It would mark the end of both the series and its development studio, but it is not the end of their story.Read more
15 Next Fest Demos That Will Have You Begging For More
14.6.2022
Hope you got a breather from the hours of trailers for upcoming games during last week’s game conferences because Steam Next Fest is now upon us. It’s a week-long event in which Steam users can play demos and watch previews for upcoming games, chat with developers, and give feedback on new titles....