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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,...
11 Things Every New Nintendo Switch Owner Should Try Or Consider
25.12.2021
So you just got a Nintendo Switch. Lucky you! Or maybe you got one for someone else and want to help them make the most of it. How kind! In either case, here are some good things to know after you open up everyone’s favorite portable hybrid console.Read more
11 Things Every New Xbox Series X/S Owner Should Try Or Consider
25.12.2021
Congratulations, you got a next-gen console. It’s hard to believe that over a year after the launch of the Xbox Series X/S, it’s still so damn hard to find one. But you did it. Or someone who really loves you did and gifted it to you for the holidays. How nice of them! Either way, now that you...
Makers of Controversial Upcoming School Shooting Game Level Remind Team To Have Some Tact
24.12.2021
In late December, Void Interactive, makers of upcoming tactics game Ready or Not, suddenly lost its publishing partner. While not directly confirmed at the time, speculation online heavily suggested the first-person shooter shake-up was due to a recent official exchange with fans, where one worker...
Project Zomboid Is Still Going Strong Ten Years Later
22.12.2021
I remember playing Project Zomboid—a game we first covered in 2011—almost a decade ago and really liking it. A slow-paced zombie survival sim, it gave players a chance to scrounge their way around a town trying to stay alive, searching for food and supplies, while at every corner zombies were...
Twitch Co-Founder Gets Discord Hacked, $150,000 Stolen From Users In NFT Scam
22.12.2021
Justin Kan, a co-founder of Twitch and the dude Justin.TV was named for, last week decided to launch a site called Fractal, which would be a ‘marketplace’ where in-game items could be bought and sold as NFTs. Later, in Fractal’s Discord server, a link appeared advertising a drop of 3333 NFTs....
Call Of Duty Fans Exasperated As Games See Big Problems For Days
21.12.2021
Call of Duty is a sprawling machine with complex moving parts spread out across multiple games and studios, and it appears to currently be overheating, especially on consoles. For days now players have been complaining that 2019’s Modern Warfare is all but broken, while even Warzone players...
Nice Owl
20.12.2021
Shafiq Cromwell is an artist based in Canada who has maybe the nicest character sheet design I have ever seen.Read more
Consensys Launches Rollups Scaling Solution With Mastercard’s Support
18.12.2021
Consensys, an Ethereum software company, announced yesterday the launch of a new scaling solution for Ethereum, called “Consensys Rollups.” The company enlisted Mastercard programmers to design the solution, which aims to allow the network to reach a throughput of 10,000...
The Best Games Hidden Inside Other Games
16.12.2021
In an industry that can all too often feel like it wants to wring us of every last drop of money, there’s a special pleasure in noting those most entertaining of freebies: the games hidden inside other games. For instance, did you know the original Animal Crossing was crammed with classic...
Indie Studio Forms First Video Game Union In The Country
15.12.2021
Developers at Vodeo Games, the indie studio behind this year’s excellent turn-based pinball RPG Beast Breaker, revealed over at Polygon today that they’ve unionized. Management at the studio is voluntarily recognizing the newly formed group, called Vodeo Workers Unite, making it the first of...
Multicoin Capital Exec Says There ‘May Not Be a Crypto Bear Market at All,’ Claims ‘Bitcoin Will Get Flipped’
14.12.2021
While the crypto economy has tumbled in value during the last two weeks, the managing partner at Multicoin Capital, Kyle Samani, recently shared his views on why he thinks the “next bear market will not be like the last one.” In fact, Samani remarks that there may not even...
The Top Ranked Steam Games of 2021, According To Users
14.12.2021
Forget awards shows and press accolades. The top games of the year are really determined by player behavior. And if you want to see what people are playing, and loving, there are few places better than Steam, which was apparently dominated this year by a mix of games you’ve definitely heard...
Final Fantasy VII Remake Is $70 On PC And People Are Freaking Out
13.12.2021
The launch of the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S provided companies with an opportunity to charge more for their console games and many jumped at the chance. With Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade and Forespoken, that new $70 price tag is making a controversial appearance on PC, a platform that’s...
Get 'Em Princess
13.12.2021
Cycle Circle is an artist based in China.Read more
Chainalysis to Offer Lightning Network Monitoring Service to VASPs in 2022
11.12.2021
On December 10, the blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis revealed that the company has added support for Bitcoin’s second-layer protocol the Lightning Network (LN). According to Chainalysis, firms like exchanges and virtual asset service providers (VASPs) can leverage...
Activision Exec To Organizing Workers: Pwease Don’t Unionize ????????
10.12.2021
With Activision Blizzard employees more organized than ever in the wake of the company’s multiple sexual harassment lawsuits and layoffs in quality assurance, a top executive apparently felt the time was right to send out a fear-mongering email warning workers about the vague “consequences”...
Geoff Keighley Opens Game Awards With Disappointing Vagueness
10.12.2021
Host Geoff Keighley opened the 2021 Game awards by calling on “everyone” to build a “better, safer” environment for games by voting with their time and their dollars.Read more
Inside The Revolt That Led To Activision Blizzard Workers' Historic Unionization Push
9.12.2021
Several Call of Duty developers have revealed to Kotaku that Activision Blizzard’s internal unwillingness to directly respond to the recently announced Raven Software layoffs was what ultimately sparked the just-revealed, broader labor organizing effort at the troubled publisher. Read more
One Of The Best Cowboy Games Ever Made Is Now Free On Steam
9.12.2021
Don’t get me wrong, Red Dead Redemption II and Gun are fun and all. I certainly enjoyed my time with them, and I even still play Red Dead Online. But Call of Jaurez: Gunslinger, perhaps a better cowboy game than both of them (and most others), is now free on Steam for a limited time. And if...