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Commonwealth Bank puts crypto trading trial on ice as regulators dither
20.5.2022
Commonwealth Bank of Australia CEO Matt Comyn insists his bank will move forward with the second pilot of crypto services on its app once regulatory uncertainty is cleared up
Developers Are Finally Starting To Leave Last-Gen Behind
17.5.2022
We’re now 18 months into the life of the PS5 and the Xbox Series X/S. The PS4 and the Xbox One are officially last-gen, a fact that’s become increasingly clear to anyone who’s tried to play Elden Ring on an old console whose fan sounds like a wind tunnel. Developers are also taking note, and recent...
Skyrim Player Recreates Themselves Perfectly In-Game
13.5.2022
The very first time I played Skyrim back in 2011 I rushed through the character creation and made a guy that ended up looking like Matt Pike, which ruled. The second time, though, I spent an age trying to put myself in the game and couldn’t get anywhere near it.Read more
Your Deepest, Darkest Elden Ring Secrets Will All Be Revealed By 'Make Up A Tarnished Guy'
10.5.2022
It’s not often that you see someone boldly call out Souls players for the silly habits they’ve learned over the years, but this Elden Ring account is doing so with gusto. Read more
How To Make A Mii For Nintendo Switch Sports
29.4.2022
RIP Wii Sports. Bowling only has ten pins. Boxing is gone. The most anticipated mode—golf—isn’t even available yet. But perhaps the most egregious crime committed by Nintendo Switch Sports is how it totally sidelines Miis, the lovable oddball player-created avatars who’ve defined Nintendo accounts...
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands Fixes Borderlands 3's Legendary Problem (This Changes Everything)
28.4.2022
Ch-Ching! For Borderlands fans, that noise sets off an almost pavlovian response. A legendary gun has dropped. You’ve gotta be the first to get it. You heard that noise all the damn time in Borderlands 3. If you’ve been messing around in Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, you may feel like it happens less....
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands Players Pissed Over ‘Short’ DLC
27.4.2022
Watching the news cycle around Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands for the past month has been like watching the news cycle of a game on fast-forward. You know how it goes: Game comes out. Gets positive reviews, fans praise it. DLC hits, is then slammed by fans. By now, it’s basically a framework. Only this...
Borderlands Is Having Its Biggest Year Ever
26.4.2022
The revival of a beloved spinoff. A film adaptation (whose cast makes no sense at all). A mainline entry (that, against all odds, feels astonishingly fresh). Yes, it’s safe to say Borderlands is back, and having its biggest year in a long time.Read more
The True Next-Gen Game Is Still Rare AF
26.4.2022
The delineation between console generations is muddier than ever. Microsoft’s two next-gen machines, the Xbox Series X and the slightly lower-powered Xbox Series S, have been out for about a year and a half. In that time, you can count the number of true next-gen Xbox games on one hand. The rare...
Why Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, A Co-Op Game, Keeps Nerfing Powerful Guns
22.4.2022
It didn’t take long for players of Gearbox’s new loot-shooter Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands to determine a “best gun.” About a week after launch, fans settled on Liquid Cooling, a legendary-tiered pistol that can technically fire forever without reloading, provided you can reliably land critical hits....
Why Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands Isn't An M-Rated Borderlands, A Series First
20.4.2022
Longtime Borderlands players will notice something…different about Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands: It’s comparatively tamer than its predecessors. That’s by intent, as it’s the first game in the series to feature a “T” rating, something its creative director called a “pillar” of its design in a recent...
Allegations Of Sexism, Bullying, And Burnout: Inside The Microsoft Studio Behind State Of Decay 3
31.3.2022
The video game industry faces a long-overdue reckoning. The average game developer is underpaid relative to the generous bonuses and shareholder payouts enjoyed by the CEOs above them, and recent reports and lawsuits have uncovered a wide range of mistreatment across companies big and small. Many...
Smash Bros Champion Gets Twitter Hacked By NFT Dipshits
29.3.2022
Earlier today the Twitter account of Leonardo Lopez Perez, aka “MkLeo”, one of if not the best Smash players in the world, was hacked by crypto freaks trying to shill their bogus NFT schemes.Read more
Witcher Fans Mistake Fanfiction For Clues About Next Game
22.3.2022
It seemed inevitable, but yesterday CD Projekt Red made it official: it’s working on a new open world Witcher game. The company didn’t say anything about what the game would be about, but it did send fans into speculation mode with teaser art showing a medallion covered in snow. Now some of them...
$500,000 NFT Lawsuit Over Pepe The Frog's Butt Is A Very Funny Story
17.3.2022
Late last year, Pepe the Frog creator Matt Furie decided to run an NFT auction, selling off an image of the controversial character in which it was waist-deep in a pool, its asscrack peeping over the surface. Everything that has happened since is exactly how you would imagine such an auction in...
Draftkings Reveals 2022 College Hoops NFT Collection for March Madness
15.3.2022
On March 15, the American fantasy sports contest and betting company Draftkings announced the company’s first in-house digital collectibles campaign called the “Primetime NFT Series.” The first Draftkings’ NFT series drop will be the “2022 College Hoops...
I Accidentally Watched The New Batman Movie In The Worst Way Possible
14.3.2022
As an unapologetic batcat shipper and a sucker for movie trailers effectively utilizing Nirvana songs, seeing The Batman wasn’t a matter of “if” but “when.” However, I got more than I bargained for when I mistakenly bought tickets to see Matt Reeves’ new Bruceman film in an obscure format called...
New Streamer Awards Show Designs Trophy After Pepe The Frog For Some Reason
14.3.2022
The Streamer Awards, an awards ceremony dedicated to livestreaming (and not to be confused with The Streamy Awards), hosted its first-ever show on March 12. Founded and organized by cooking streamer QTCinderella, the celebration pulled in 380,000 concurrent viewers, as big-name broadcasters like...
The Batman Review: This Could Be the Dark Knight You’ve Been Waiting For
4.3.2022
Batman movies are kind of like seasons of Doctor Who. Every now and then a new season with a new Doctor will come along and give a perspective on a classic character that will appeal to a new group of fans. In a similar way, The Batman employs a new pool of creative talent to give us a version...
BioWare Shares Small But Encouraging Dragon Age 4, Mass Effect Updates
24.2.2022
Despite the turbulent development roadmap of Dragon Age 4, BioWare announced yesterday that the RPG is in the middle of the production phase. The announcement coincided with the news that a Dragon Age executive producer was leaving the studio. As the blog post tells it, the developers’ morale...