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5 Things To Know Before Playing The New 'Strand' Game, Witch Strandings
7.7.2022
Witch Strandings is the second official “strand-type” game, a genre (but more like an ideal) first introduced by Hideo Kojima’s transportation-focused Death Stranding. Like that other game, Witch Strandings makes you traverse a ruined, perilous landscape in order to deliver things. Unlike that...
Take-Two Going After Another GTA Modder
6.7.2022
Another day, another DMCA takedown notice sent to a Grand Theft Auto modder. This time, it’s virtual reality modder Luke Ross who says that Take-Two has issued him a DMCA claim over his VR mods even though he argues that his work contains no copyrighted code or material. It’s just the latest in...
Crypto Selloff Proves Computer Code Leads To ‘Better Outcome’ Than Human Discretion - Arthur Hayes
1.7.2022
Pure decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols have fared far better than the more centralized crypto lending and borrowing companies during this bear market. This proves that computer code and transparent standards give “a better outcome,” crypto essayist and former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes...
Pokemon's Kids Are All Grown Up
30.6.2022
Brahim Bensehoul is an illustrator, character artist and creature designer who has worked on stuff like League of Legends and Call of Duty.Read more
China Blockchain Alliance Executives: Virtual Currency the ‘Largest Ponzi Scheme in Human History’
29.6.2022
The chairman of China’s Blockchain Service Network (BSN) Development Alliance Shan Zhiguang, and his colleague, insisted in a recently published op-ed that virtual currency is “undoubtedly the largest Ponzi scheme in human history.” However, they have said the “value...
Wonderful, That Bonkers Fishing Game Series Is Back
29.6.2022
There’s a Japanese arcade game called Fishing Spirits that in 2019 was ported to the Switch, then released in the West as Ace Angler. It now has a sequel, and it is not your average fishing game.Read more
Blood Red
28.6.2022
Kurozaki Sakura is an artist based in China.Read more
The Hottest Game Of The Summer Has A Cheating Problem
28.6.2022
It’s like clockwork: A game comes out with a robust competitive component…and is instantly inundated by players who rocket to the top via nefarious, unsanctioned means—cheaters, in other words. The latest victim is Neon White, a multi-genre speedrunning game developed by Angel Matrix and published...
MMO Studio Wants Unpaid Volunteers To Make Steam's Most Wishlisted Game
27.6.2022
The Day Before is currently the most wishlisted game on Steam, but it’s attracting attention for a very different reason. The studio currently uses “volunteers” who are paid with “participation certificates” and free codes, which are, you know, great for paying rent.Read more
Diablo Immortal Could Run Your Wallet Way More Than You Thought
27.6.2022
Diablo Immortal may be a solid mobile version of Blizzard’s hack-and-slash dungeon crawler, but it’s no secret the game has been mired in controversy due to its egregious microtransactions. It was previously speculated that maxing out a single character could cost as much as $100,000. However,...
Can Metaverse technology enhance human-AI efficiency?
25.6.2022
How will AI be used in the metaverse? Can AI and blockchain work together? A dive into the future of AI aligned with blockchain
$15,000 Later, Diablo Immortal Player Finally Has His Legendary Gem
24.6.2022
The last time we checked in on streamer Quin and his attempts to buy his way to glory in Diablo Immortal, he had spent $6600 and not attained a single 5-star Legendary Gem. I am happy (?) to report that, after more than doubling his investment, he finally has his loot.Read more
TMNT Illustrator Re-Imagines King of the Hill As Junji Ito Horror Manga
22.6.2022
Horror manga fans already know that Junji Ito is the king of the genre, but what if his art style featured the likes of King of the Hill’s Hank Hill, the king of all things propane and propane accessories? Well, first off, weird question, but if you happen to be a fan of these two disparate media...
Read This Before You Break Up Over Video Games
22.6.2022
Video games provide an opportunity for team building, relaxation, and vicarious experiences you couldn’t have anywhere else, but for couples where one person is more interested in them than the other, video games might only produce the inconvenient question: should we break up? In a relationship...
Central African Republic President on BTC Volatility: ‘Mathematics Don’t Account for Human Emotions’
22.6.2022
In an apparent message to critics of the Central African Republic’s bitcoin decision, the country’s president, Faustin-Archange Touadéra, recently argued that understanding the crypto’s disruptive power is crucial and that “mathematics don’t account for human...
Dude Builds An Xbox Series X That's Over Six-Foot Tall
22.6.2022
What is this, a series now? One guy builds a tiny little PS5 so someone else has to go out and build an enormous Xbox Series X?Read more
This Scottish Cycle Lane Is Harder Than Any Video Game
20.6.2022
There’s a street in Edinburgh, Scotland, that offers a real-life version of Paperboy’s zigzag cycling routes, and I’m here to celebrate it for just that. As part of the city’s £207 million ($253m) project to run trams through the famous road, a new section of cycle lane has been put in, which, as...
Let’s Put EA CEO’s $20 Million Payout In Context
17.6.2022
The CEO of Madden maker Electronic Arts is set to rake in $19.8 million in total compensation for his company’s strong performance in 2021. That’s about half of what it was for 2020 after EA’s Board of Directors cracked down on exorbitant bonuses in the face of shareholder backlash, but still...
Smash Bros. Ultimate Fan Mod Adds Crono From Chrono Trigger
17.6.2022
Last year, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate announced that Sora from Kingdom Hearts would be the last character in the fighting game roster. But that hasn’t stopped fans from trying to add their own favorites to the game. Yesterday, a fan uploaded a mod that lets Smash players turn Hero into Crono from...
Welcome To Sushi Town
17.6.2022
Jay Kim is a veteran concept artist and illustrator from Korea who has worked on stuff like MapleStory 2.Read more