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Sony Japan Recommends Two-Step Sign-in After PSN Account Takeovers
14.7.2021
While two-factor authentictaion is not new to the PlayStation Network, today the official Ask PlayStation Japanese Twitter account recommended the verification progress be used for logging in. As website Game Impress Watch reports, there have been “many reports” from users of accounts being taken...
Rare Gundam Graphics Cards Wasted On Crypto Mining
14.7.2021
I can’t explain it. I can’t justify it. But I do get Gundam fans’ strange attachment to the special-edition GeForce RTX 3080 Gundam graphics cards. They’re beefy but elegant and come in a sleek titanium white. They’re also next to impossible to find, which is why some people might be crestfallen...
Damn, This Fancy Mario Watch Costs $2,150?
13.7.2021
If you need more proof that Gaming Is Cool Now, look no further than the latest collaboration between a gaming company and a luxury brand. TAG Heuer, purveyor of high-end timepieces famously worn by history’s coolest dude, and Nintendo, purveyor of cut-rate plumbers with bad mustaches, have teamed...
Your Future PC Might Have A PS5 Chip Inside
12.7.2021
This is the AMD 4700S Desktop Kit, a small piece of hardware that combines a CPU, cooler, and memory on a tiny motherboard. It’s basically a mostly self-contained computer system that will soon be appearing in more than 80 different machines from AMD’s system integration partners. It’s also...
Microsoft Calls For An End To 'Git Gud'
12.7.2021
Before the weekend, Microsoft’s Xbox Twitter account sent a surprisingly important tweet: “Beating the game on the lowest difficulty is still beating the game.” This was then followed up by Double Fine who added that completing Psychonauts 2 with the “invincibility toggle on” still counts...
The GMMK Pro Brings The Premium Mechanical Keyboard Experience To The Masses
7.7.2021
In the mechanical keyboard world, scoring a board with a unique 75 percent layout, machined aluminium case, and a keystroke-dampening gasket-mounted plate design normally requires investing in a very expensive custom build or paying into a group buy for a crowdsourced keyboard months or years from...
This Week's PlayStation Event Won't Include God Of War Or Horizon
6.7.2021
During last month’s E3/Summer Game Fest announcement bonanza, Sony was one of the many conspicuously absent companies. However, if you were expecting big, E3-style announcements out of the PlayStation maker’s July showcase, prepare to be disappointed.Read more
Latest Nintendo Switch Update Adds A Helpful Space-Saving Feature
6.7.2021
Maybe you’ve tried to download games to your Switch, you might have gotten a message due to a lack of space. Not everyone knows off the top of their head how much space they have available! I know I don’t. But in Nintendo’s latest Switch update, there’s now a helpful feature.Read more
Ubisoft Screws Up DRM Servers, Then Somehow Makes Things Worse
6.7.2021
Last month, Ubisoft decided to end online support for a bunch of older games, but in doing so also brought down the DRM servers for Might and Magic X - Legacy, meaning players couldn’t access the game’s singleplayer content or DLC.Read more
User Reviews Are Still The Best Tool We Have
5.7.2021
It’s an increasingly common refrain: user reviews, particularly on Steam and Metacritic, are increasingly unhelpful. We’ve covered all the facets of review bombing for years, but what’s interesting is that some developers themselves are backing the idea of scrapping user reviews altogether.Read more
Sony Charging Devs At Least $25,000 For PlayStation Store Visibility
30.6.2021
In a furious tirade on Twitter, independent games publisher Iain Garner of Neon Doctrine has unleashed his frustrations with trying to publish games on a major games console—one he says that isn’t made by Microsoft. During the spleen-venting, he suggests that getting prominent promotion for a game...
PORT: Harnessing Sustainable Power for Cloud and Volunteer Computing
30.6.2021
Disclaimer: The text below is a press release that was not written by Cryptonews.com.
With an ever-increasing demand for computing power, PORT Network launches the first dApp to merge both Cloud and Volunteer computing on the blockchain.
28th June 2021, Düsseldorf, Germany - The demand...
Sony Snipes At Microsoft's Spending Sprees
29.6.2021
After a year of watching Microsoft throw around billions buying up game studios, Sony has returned fire with a small acquisition of its own. The purchase of Returnal developer Housemarque is only the second studio Sony has acquired over the last decade, however, marking a clear difference in...
Reverse-Engineered Grand Theft Auto Games Are Back, Baby
29.6.2021
In February, fans managed to reverse-engineer the source code for Grand Theft Auto III and Vice City. A week later, publisher Take-Two went after them and had the projects taken down. Now in June, they’re back again.Read more
PORT Network: DApp to Harness Sustainable Processing Power for Both Cloud and Volunteer Computing
28.6.2021
PRESS RELEASE. With an ever-increasing demand for computing power, PORT Network launches the first dApp to merge both Cloud and Volunteer computing on the blockchain. 28th June 2021, Düsseldorf, Germany – The demand for increased computing power is growing at an exponential rate....
The Brilliant SNES Emulator Author Known As Near Has Died
28.6.2021
The brilliant, highly respected emulator developer Near (previously known as Byuu) appears to have taken their own life. Read more
The Week In Games: Zombies And Not Much Else
27.6.2021
We are truly in the doldrums of Summer. No huge releases this week, though there are some smaller games and next-gen ports that might be of interest to some.Read more
EA Is Pulling Some Classics From GOG, And One Will Be Totally Delisted
25.6.2021
Some classic PC games, including the fantastic and historically important Ultima Underworld series, are being removed from GOG on June 28. The games are on sale for next to nothing ahead of their removal.Read more
Someone Donated A $10,000 Rare Game To Goodwill
25.6.2021
An employee at a Goodwill in Texas found an extremely rare Atari 2600 game and the company held an online auction to sell the game. After a week, on June 17, it sold for $10,590.Read more
Windows 11 Wants To Make Your PC Feel More Like An Xbox
24.6.2021
During Microsoft’s Windows 11 reveal event this morning, Xbox executive Sarah Bond took to the stream to talk about how the latest version of the operating system will bring powerful tools from the Xbox Series X/S to PC, including auto HDR and the super-speedy DirectStorage API.Read more