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Balan Wonderworld Gets Day One Patch To Address Seizure Risk
26.3.2021
Square Enix has released a day one patch for Balan Wonderworld, released today, to fix issues with a late-game scene that had bright, flashing lights that the company called a “photo-sensitive epilepsy risk.” Read more
Crypto-focused software firm Lukka raises $53M in funding round
26.3.2021
Lukka said it planned to add additional features for customers dealing in derivatives, DeFi products, and other products of the crypto space
A History Of Shareware, Demos And Covertapes
26.3.2021
Back before YouTube and Twitch and always online DRM, developers needed more effective ways of marketing than just relying on word of mouth. This resulted in shareware, demos and demo discs, free slices of playable content that spawned one of the most interesting phases in the gaming. Read more
How To Sign Up For The ‘Xbox Insider’ Program
25.3.2021
Yesterday, Microsoft announced that party chat, previously only available to members of Xbox Live Gold, will soon be free to all Xbox players. The company revealed the news in a tweet with phrases like “Alpha,” “Alpha Skip-Ahead,” and “flighting.” Meanwhile, an accompanying blog post featured...
Twitch's Latest Sensation Is A Stop Sign Where No One Stops
24.3.2021
A blue car pulls up to a stop sign. Against all odds, it briefly, miraculously comes to a halt. Twitch chat goes ballistic. Numerous people spam “I was here” as pogchamp emotes flood in. This is Stopsigncam, a Twitch channel that suddenly has over 125,000 followers even though it’s just a camera...
It Is Once Again Time To Drive A Relaxing Video Game Bus
24.3.2021
As I have written on this website, there is a gentle joy to be found in driving a video game bus, and so it is with great excitement that I prepare to settle in for the next week playing a game called The Bus.Read more
Japanese Company Creates "Monster Hunter Holiday" For New Game's Release
24.3.2021
Whenever a massive game is released, no doubt, diehard fans wish nothing more than to take the day off. Some may suddenly find themselves coming down with a cold and the only recipe for recovery is a day of gaming.Read more
1000s Of Steam Games Now Let You Play With People Who Don't Even Have Steam Accounts
24.3.2021
An update to Steam released earlier this week has, tucked away in its changelog, a very cool piece of news: if you’re playing a game that supports Remote Play Together, you can now invite anyone to play with you, even if they don’t have a Steam account.Read more
Puzzle Quest 3 Does The Match-Three RPG A Little Differently
23.3.2021
The game that kicked off the match-three/RPG genre in 2007 is back for a third go with Puzzle Quest 3. An early preview of the Android version of the threequel reveals a somewhat more dynamic take on the genre mash-up. Giving players two seconds to map out their moves makes a big difference.Read...
So-Called Pirates Are Doing The Work When Publishers Fail To Preserve Their Games
23.3.2021
Yesterday, TheGamer reported that Sony has plans to shut down the online PS3, PS Vita, and PSP stores that service those older consoles. While this has yet to be confirmed, and Sony has not responded to our request for comment, the internet discourse around this potentially troubling news...
OnePlus 9 Pro míří mezi top fotomobily. Pomáhá mu software od Hasselblad
23.3.2021
Dva nové špičkové smartphony řady OnePlus 9 • Švédský Hasselblad pomohl s kalibrací fotoaparátů
• Ani u jednoho z modelů nechybí bezdrátové nabíjení
Report: Microsoft Wants To Buy Discord For "Over $10 Billion"
23.3.2021
Bloomberg is reporting that Microsoft is one of several companies “in talks” to purchase chat and community platform Discord, for a price said to be in excess of $10 billion.Read more
RIP, Xbox Live (2002-2021)
22.3.2021
The name “Xbox Live” is dead. You’ll still be able to play Xbox games online, but the suite of Xbox’s online services will now be known as Xbox Network, Microsoft confirmed today to The Verge.Read more
It’s always the stacking context.
22.3.2021
In “What the heck, z-index??,” Josh Comeau makes the analogy of layer groups in design software like Photoshop or Figma to stacking contexts in CSS. If you’ve got an element in a layer group A in Photoshop that …
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Steam Flat-Out Refuses To Sell Sleazy Pick-Up Game Super Seducer 3
22.3.2021
The third game in dating guru and author Richard La Ruina’s Super Seducer series of full-motion-video dating sims will not be releasing on Steam, because the service does not “ship sexually explicit images of real people,” just tons and tons of anime porn. Read more
Beaxy Accelerates Automated Trading Through Hummingbot Partnership
21.3.2021
PRESS RELEASE. Chicago, Illinois, USA – Hummingbot.io, a premier open-source algorithmic trading project, has chosen to incorporate Beaxy Exchange into its most recent software release, allowing Beaxy users to take advantage of 24/7 automated high-frequency trading on a U.S. based...
Spider-Man Saves People, Neither Snow Nor Rain
20.3.2021
After a week off, Snapshots is back! We got more great screenshots this week from a bunch of games. Just a heads up: Some of these screenshots are from last week. So consider this a special, larger-than-normal edition of Snapshots!Read more
Fortnite Players Are Getting Weird Again, This Time About The Rock
19.3.2021
Fortnite fans have been speculating on who voiced The Foundation, a character who appeared in the cinematic and in-game event that started the game’s season 6. The going theory is that it’s Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, but there are competing ideas too. None of this matters much, but it’s Fortnite...
The 10 Best Deals of March 18, 2021
18.3.2021
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Please Enjoy Breath Of The Wild In 8K (If You Can)
18.3.2021
A few years back I was marvelling at Breath of the Wild in 4K, now we are all free to admire the game running in 8K, and with some (shaded) ray tracing to boot.Read more