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Behold, A Japanese Hand Massaging Device For Gamers
30.12.2021
Bauhutte, the folks behind the gaming bed and the gaming mattress, are back with another interesting product: A hand massager for gamers. Read more
DAO aims to raise $5M to resurrect Blockbuster Video
30.12.2021
The BlockbusterDAO wants to raise at least $5 million to buy the iconic video rental brand from Dish Network and turn it into a streaming film studio
Halo Infinite Dev Dishes About The Game’s Most Shocking Moment
29.12.2021
The most shocking moment in Halo Infinite isn’t about exploding a derelict ancient space station or accidentally awakening a once-slumbering threat. It’s a brief exchange between two main characters, one that reveals the extent to which Halo protagonist Master Chief would go to fulfill what he sees...
The Best-Selling Indie Games On Switch In 2021, According To Nintendo
29.12.2021
December still has a few days left, which means we still have a little bit more time to reminisce back on the year that was. In this case, Japanese publisher Nintendo released a punchy supercut of what are, apparently, the most popular smaller budget games on its portable platform.Read more
13 Games To Check Out If You Like Breath Of The Wild
29.12.2021
It’s no secret that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was an incredibly influential game. It spawned numerous copycats while shifting both our understanding and expectations of what open-world games can be. But what if you’ve scoured all the nooks and crannies of Hyrule and still want...
Video Game Retail Giant Gamestop Reveals More Clues About Upcoming NFT Marketplace
29.12.2021
At the end of May, crypto advocates discovered a website created by the video game retailer Gamestop. The web portal disclosed that Gamestop was entering the world of blockchain tech and non-fungible token (NFT) assets. Gamestop’s NFT web portal has recently been updated and is requesting...
Roblox CEO Outed For Using Completely Legal, Completely Ridiculous Tax Dodge
29.12.2021
Game-making platform and fledgling metaverse Roblox made the news yesterday as the focus of a New York Times report about a ‘90s era tax cut that’s spun out of control. Originally created to foster investment in small businesses, the Qualified Small Business Stock, or Q.S.B.S., exemption...
Halo Infinite's Bots Are Currently Creating Unfair Teams
29.12.2021
Halo Infinite is currently facing a bug where bots join multiplayer teams to fill empty slots and then stick around after their actual-human replacements join the match, resulting in unbalanced teams for multiplayer matches.Read more
John Madden Dies At Age 85
29.12.2021
Legendary coach and broadcaster John Madden died Tuesday morning, the NFL announced. For fans, no one is more synonymous with football than Madden, and perhaps no one person has done more to bring new people into the game.Read more
How Halo Infinite Used A Semi-Open World To Deliver On The Promise Of Halo
28.12.2021
Halo Infinite almost lives up to its title.Read more
Halo Infinite’s Oddball ‘Quidditch' Glitch Lets You Live Out Your Transphobic Wizard Dreams
28.12.2021
For those of you who, like me, are missing Grifball—Halo’s in- and out-of-universe football-style combat sport—in Halo Infinite, you can at the very least pretend you’re playing Quidditch, the favorite wizard sport of transphobes everywhere, thanks to a new glitch in the possession-based Oddball...
Longtime Blizzard Employee Spouted Hateful Garbage On Discord Server
28.12.2021
Geoff Frazier, a former early Blizzard employee who was responsible for much of the company’s web content over the past 23 years, has been posting bigoted and hateful messages in a Discord server going back to May 2021. ABetterABK founder and organizer Jessica Gonzalez tweeted screenshots...
What The Matrix Resurrections Really Says About Video Games Isn't Obvious
28.12.2021
Video games are both important and unimportant in The Matrix Resurrections. They’re mentioned a lot–they play a significant role in the life of Keanu Reeves’ character, Thomas Anderson–but at the same time, the film isn’t particularly interested in games as games. Rather, games serve as a metaphor...
Poll: Here Are Japan's Top 100 Video Games Of All Time
28.12.2021
Last night on Japanese television, there was a three-hour special to rank the hundred most popular video games of all time as voted by over 50,000 people in Japan. Since this poll has such a huge sample, the TV Asahi results are probably a fairly accurate barometer of people’s current gaming tastes...
Despite Everything, Cyberpunk 2077 Was A Steam Top Seller & Most-Played Title In 2021
27.12.2021
Perhaps it was an understatement when we said Cyberpunk was having its first “good day” when it creeped its way to the top of the Steam charts earlier this year. As it turns out, the beleaguered role-playing game, which has received a number of updates since its dumpster fire of a release,...
Decades Later, An Animator Complaint Discovered In Akira
27.12.2021
Until December 28, Akira is streaming on YouTube for free in Japan. With the country’s end of year holidays underway, people have more time to spend watching the movie, and perhaps, more time to notice all the little details. Read more
Final Fantasy XVI Delayed By Almost Six Months Due To Covid-19
27.12.2021
The original plan was for Square Enix to make a big year-end announcement regarding Final Fantasy XVI. That’s not going to happen, and the game has been delayed by at least half a year. “When we last spoke, I promised I would have more information on Final Fantasy XVI sometime later in 2021,” wrote...
How Binance NFT Is Building the No․1 Gaming Metaverse
27.12.2021
Video games, the Metaverse and NFTs. Binance NFT has become the largest centralized gaming NFT marketplace. See what the team has accomplished and how Binance NFT is building the Gaming Metaverse. Main Takeaways: Since June, Binance NFT has become the world’s largest centralized NFT gaming...
The Week In Games: The Last Week Of 2021
26.12.2021
Congrats, everyone! We made it. This horrible, awful year (filled with some pretty good games...) is nearly over. Now, I know that a new year doesn’t magically change anything. But at least we can all collectively look back at 2021 and say “Fuck off” together. Read more
20 Years Ago, Nintendo Had Plans To Bring Email, Internet Searching, And Live Streams To The Game Boy Color
26.12.2021
The Game Boy Color was released in 1998, a few years before the earliest and crudest smartphones had hit the market. Back then, the internet was still fairly new and the idea of carrying around a single device that could email people, search the web, send photos and stream live videos was years...