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Layoffs Hit GameSpot, Giant Bomb Just Months After Fandom Buys Them
19.1.2023
Two of the biggest outlets in games media are the latest to face layoffs. A number of editorial staff across both Giant Bomb and GameSpot revealed they’d been let go on Thursday, just months after the sites were purchased by the Fandom wiki network.Read more
Ukrainian Devs Remind Us Life Is Still Hell As Russian Drones Bomb Cities
23.12.2022
It feels like forever since the war in Ukraine began, but it hasn’t even been a year; Russian tanks rolled across the border in February, just ten months ago. Yet what was once headline news has now blurred into the background for most of us, a conflict that for the rest of the world is...
This New Scarlet And Violet Pokémon Is Unexpectedly OP
13.12.2022
Pokémon has a new meta contender in town, and it’s…a cute mouse family? That’s right. In addition to having unsettling in-game implications like how parents hatch out of a single egg, the Tandemaus line is also incredibly powerful: its signature move can exceed the base power of attacks such...
Latest Videogamedunkey YouTube Sparks Sonic Frontiers Review Bombing
15.11.2022
The Metacritic page for the PlayStation 5 version of Sonic Frontiers is currently being review-bombed, seemingly in response to the latest video from popular gaming YouTuber Videogamedunkey. As you’d expect, Sonic stans are coming back just as hard, defending the virtues of the blue hedgehog’s...
Giant Bomb, GameSpot, MetaCritic And More Sold To Fan Wiki Company
3.10.2022
The gaming press world has been in quite some turmoil of late. Tencent just gutted Fanbyte, G4TV just fired a bunch of its staff, and Future Publishing just let go a swathe of writers and editors, despite making hundreds of millions of dollars last year. So it’s with perhaps some trepidation...
Comedian Bill Murray’s Wallet Hacked for $186K Worth of Ethereum After NFT Charity Auction
3.9.2022
American actor and comedian Bill Murray saw 119.2 ethereum drained from his wallet on September 1, 2022, after Murray held a non-fungible token (NFT) charity auction. Statistics show that most of the tokens and NFTs in Murray’s wallet have been moved, and roughly $556 in token value remains....
Developer Explains Why Some Bad Steam Reviews Might Be Coming From Scammers
30.8.2022
Steam is both an easy-to-use digital game storefront and a rabbit hole of shady shit, filled with weird, archaic leftovers from past ideas Valve never got around to finishing or improving. One such example is the curator system. Most users barely interact with it, but recently an indie developer...
Ethereum Devs Delay Difficulty Bomb — ETH 2.0 Contract Surpasses 13 Million Ether Deposits
9.7.2022
On June 30, Ethereum developers delayed the network’s difficulty bomb via the Gray Glacier update, which means The Merge won’t happen at least until September 2022. Meanwhile, there’s now more than 13 million ethereum locked into the Beacon Chain worth $15.8 billion using...
Jed McCaleb’s XRP bag is almost gone, Ethereum’s difficulty bomb delayed and FTX inks deal with BlockFi: Hodler’s Digest, June 26-July 2
2.7.2022
Ethereum fork a success as Sepolia testnet gears up to trial the Merge
1.7.2022
The difficulty bomb has been successfully delayed according to core dev Tim Beiko and Ethereum ecosystem developer Nethermind
Ethereum's Gray Glacier (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Difficulty Bomb)
22.6.2022
The latest delay of Ethereum’s Difficulty Bomb suggests the network’s Merge to proof-of-stake might be a bit further away than hoped
Diablo Immortal Slammed On Metacritic, Now Holds Lowest User Score Ever
13.6.2022
Review aggregation sites are hardly the arbiter of a game’s quality, particularly when it comes to user reviews, and particularly in the era of review-bombing. Still, some data points are unignorable: As noted by VGC, Blizzard’s recent Diablo Immortal now holds claim to the lowest user score...
Ethereum Steps on Another Delay Bomb
13.6.2022
Ethereum (ETH) developers have decided to once again delay the “difficulty bomb,” a special code in Ethereum that eventually makes it impossible to mine ETH tokens, by another two months.
Core Ethereum developers met on Friday and discussed Ethereum's Ropsten public testnet. After discussing...
Ethereum difficulty bomb delayed but network adoption still growing
13.6.2022
The difficulty bomb is designed to make mining profitability plummet in order to disincentivize miners ahead of the long-awaited Merge
Giant Bomb Staff Discuss Jeff Gerstmann Exit While He Starts New Podcast
7.6.2022
Today, both Giant Bomb staff and co-founder Jeff Gerstmann talked about his departure from the site he helped create 14 years ago. While he didn’t appear on the latest podcast from Giant Bomb to say goodbye, Gerstmann launched his own Patreon-supported video game podcast and video project....
Giant Bomb Co-Founder Jeff Gerstmann Leaving Site After 14 Years
6.6.2022
Today, Giant Bomb announced that the website’s co-founder, Jeff Gerstmann, was leaving the popular video game website after nearly 15 years. In a blog post announcing the departure, it was explained that “Giant Bomb and Jeff Gerstmann have agreed to go our separate ways.”Read more
Genshin Impact Fans React To Historic First Delay In Two Years Of The Pandemic
29.4.2022
Yesterday, Genshin Impact developer HoYoverse announced that the latest update for their open world RPG would be delayed, a first for a live service game that’s been reliably consistent for the past two years. The official Twitter account said that version 2.7 would be postponed because of “project...
Crusty PlayStation Leads To Bomb Scare At Boston Airport
19.4.2022
Passengers at Boston’s Logan International Airport were evacuated from a terminal on Saturday and the local bomb squad called in after TSA agents found a “suspicious item” inside a Delta passenger’s bag that turned out to be a “PlayStation”.Read more
Bomb Money Will Peg With BTC After the Recent Growth on the BNB Chain
15.4.2022
Bomb Money is a BNB chain token that is built on Binance. It is pegged to Bitcoin. In other words, the value of Bomb Money varies depending on the fluctuations in the value of Bitcoin. The proprietary protocol of Bomb Money conducts the creation and removal of BOMB tokens. Binance extends...
Crypto-skeptic gamers review bomb Storybook Brawl after FTX buys it
1.4.2022
“We don't support NFTs in this household. Tragic end for a great auto battler,” wrote one unhappy anti-NFT gamer