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Big Minecraft YouTuber Dream Reveals Face After Three Years, Gets Bullied For It
3.10.2022
The 23-year-old Minecraft streamer and YouTuber with over 30 million subscribers, Dream, has only ever appeared to the public wearing a smooth, egg-colored smiley face mask. Other than some blowout cheating allegations that begrudgingly subsided after he admitted wrongdoing, Dream’s three-year-old...
Bush-Era Torture Apologist Steps Down From Call Of Duty Publisher
1.10.2022
In a past life, Frances Townsend defended the legal basis for the torture method called waterboarding during George W. Bush’s war on terror. In a more recent one, she helped lead Activision Blizzard’s initially tone-deaf response to a major sexual harassment lawsuit by the state of California....
GameStop Pre-Orders Are A Mess Right Now, Staff Say
30.9.2022
“Is there anything you want to pre-order?” Almost nobody walks in and out of a GameStop without hearing those words. Employees are measured against how many pre-orders they can rack up while GameStop rakes in the cash months ahead of a game’s actual release. But lately, the strategy has been...
Square Enix Is Drowning 2022 With New RPGs, And We're Here For It
30.9.2022
2022 is a great year to be an RPG fan, particularly of Japanese games. The holiday season is usually crowded with new game releases, but this year Square Enix appears to be releasing games like it’s Christmas all year round. With so many out already, and so many more to come, are SE’s profligate...
Obsidian's Big Survival Game Turns The Smallest Things Into Your Biggest Terrors
29.9.2022
It’s dark out, and I’m scared. I’m hiding behind a small chest and a rock. Around me are a few flimsy walls made of leaves. Outside those walls, I can hear it: a giant, angry spider. I can’t spot it directly, but I can see the massive leaves and tall blades of grass surrounding my tiny shelter...
Far Cry 6 May Be Getting A GOTY Edition Despite Getting Almost No Awards
28.9.2022
An image found on the backend of the Xbox online store seems to reveal that Ubisoft is gearing up to launch a “Game Of The Year Upgrade Pass” for Far Cry 6. That’s…fine, I guess, but it raises the question: Which site out there thought it was the best game of 2021 and awarded it such an accolade?...
Sources: Ubisoft’s Big 2022 Pirate Blockbuster Delayed Yet Again
28.9.2022
Ubisoft faces another massive delay. Earlier this year it was Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. Now it’s Skull and Bones, the Assassin’s Creed publisher’s only major fall blockbuster. Previously set to come out in November, two sources familiar with the game’s development now tell Kotaku it’s been...
One Of The Biggest Reasons To Play Destiny 2 Right Now Is Bugged
28.9.2022
There have been a fair number of complaints about Destiny 2’s Season of Plunder, but for the most part I’ve been having a blast. So it’s a major bummer that one of the main reasons to play right now appears bugged for the second week in a row. An upgrade that’s key to overcoming Destiny’s terrible...
Incredible Halo Infinite Map Captures Iconic Toy Story Room In Its Full Glory
28.9.2022
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I Played 1,167 Hours Of Dragon Age: Origins And Lived
28.9.2022
Dragon Age is an immensely popular fantasy roleplaying series that has spawned several main entries, spin-off games, novels, comics books, a tabletop game, an animated film, and a web series. Yet the first entry in the series was relatively modest: Origins is a single-player game with a main story...
Warner Bros. Really Wants You To Know That Gotham Knights Will Look Great On PC
27.9.2022
Warner Bros. just released a new trailer to tell you how beautiful Gotham Knights will be on your PC, as if to reassure everyone that this time, it’s getting the PC version right. Back in 2015, the publisher’s PC port of Batman: Arkham Knight was so famously bad that it pulled the game from Steam...
Ubisoft Boss Clarifies His Controversial Remarks About Toxicity
26.9.2022
In a new interview with La Presse, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot appeared to say that toxicity in the games industry comes from necessary “friction” in the creative process. The implication was that it was almost inescapable. Two years into a workplace reckoning over sexual harassment, misconduct,...
The Best And Worst Parts Of Every Assassin’s Creed Game
24.9.2022
Released back in 2007, the first Assassin’s Creed took the world by storm and kicked off a large and still ongoing franchise, one of Ubisoft’s most successful, too. While every fan of the franchise no doubt has their favorite (and least favorite) entries, we aren’t here to rank them all. I mean,...
Report: 17-Year-Old Arrested On Suspicion Of Being Hacker Behind GTA VI Leak
24.9.2022
Today, London City Police announced they had arrested a 17-year-old from Oxfordshire Thursday evening. While the police have yet to confirm why, it’s been reported that the teen was arrested in connection with the recent Uber and Grand Theft Auto VI leaks. The suspect remains in City Police custody...
The Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Fire Is Out Of Control In The Cyberpunk 2077 Modding Scene
24.9.2022
Cyberpunk 2077 might be getting its first major expansion next year, but that hasn’t stopped fans from creating their own mods for the game so they can finally have Netflix’s popular anime series, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, in the game for realsies. Read more
TikTok’s Ugly ‘NPC In Real Life’ Trend Reflects The Worst Side Of Growing Up Online
23.9.2022
I’ve been seeing these videos for at least a year, what I’d call the “NPC in real life” trend on TikTok, which involve harassing, embarrassing, or frightening people in public. Harassment is a staple of online life, something I placidly accept from YouTube “prank” channels, niche celebrity drama...
Apex Legends Devs Are Sick Of Players Harassing Them
23.9.2022
Respawn Entertainment took to Twitter this week with a statement condemning the “increased harassment” its employees have faced over the variety of issues plaguing the popular battle royale shooter Apex Legends.Read more
The Story Behind Mortal Kombat’s Iconic Dragon Logo
23.9.2022
You’ve probably seen the silhouette of Mortal Kombat’s dragon logo so often that you don’t even think about how little sense it makes. There weren’t any dragons in the original Mortal Kombat, and it doesn’t factor into the backstory about an interdimensional martial arts tournament to determine...
Solium Infernum Is A Grand Strategy Game Set In Hell
23.9.2022
I know a lot of people who would say a grand strategy game set anywhere would be hell, but those people don’t know what they’re missing out on.Read more
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands Was So Successful, Gearbox Is Turning It Into A Franchise
22.9.2022
Released earlier this year, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands has proven to be a big success for Gearbox and 2K. In fact, it did so well that Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford confirmed that the Borderlands spin-off is now the start of a brand new franchise, with more Wonderlands content to come in the future.Read...