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Report: Jason Momoa Will Star In That Minecraft Movie
18.4.2022
The Minecraft movie is stacking up its cast. Jason Momoa, whom you may know as the guy with mountainous biceps and a waterfall of hair from Aquaman or the guy with mountainous biceps and a waterfall of hair from Game of Thrones, will star in the Minecraft movie. At least, that’s according to...
Portal Writer Wants Valve To Make Next Game Before He's 'Too Old To Work' On It
18.4.2022
Erik Wolpaw, co-writer of the Portal series, would love to work on a third game. There are just a few problems: He’s one developer out of hundreds of staff and he’s not sure that Valve would go for another Portal game’s profit margins.Read more
Github suspends accounts of Russian developers linked to sanctioned firms
18.4.2022
Despite its promise to cater to the needs of individual developers, the latest wave of sanctions has forced the open-source platform to even block former employees of sanctioned firms
Uniswap Launches Swap Widget — Devs Can Embed the Dex With ‘One Line of Code’
15.4.2022
On Thursday, Uniswap Labs, the company behind the popular decentralized finance (defi) protocol, Uniswap, launched a tool called the Swap Widget. Essentially, the widget allows developers and decentralized app (dapp) operators to embed the Uniswap decentralized exchange (dex) app with “one...
Now Is The Best Time To Build Bad Hearthstone Decks
15.4.2022
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Fortnite Coachella's Coming, But With None Of The Sunburn Or Drugs
14.4.2022
Epic Games, which is virtually only in competition with itself when it comes to wacky crossovers with franchises like Naruto, Silk Sonic, and whatever character Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson is playing this year, announced a collaboration between Fortnite and the Coachella Valley Music and Arts...
Club Penguin Remake Pulled By Disney, Three Arrested
14.4.2022
Club Penguin was a massively popular children’s MMO that was eventually acquired (and later shuttered) by Disney. However, that hasn’t stopped popular clones from amassing millions of users. Now the official website for the most popular clone, Club Penguin Rewritten, has been seized by the City...
Genshin Impact’s Kokomi Used To Suck, But Now She's Fun As Hell
8.4.2022
I didn’t try to recruit Kokomi, the water-element healer, during her initial, limited release. Instead, I opted to skip her for Childe, the water-based archer who can slay packs of enemies in seconds flat. I regret that now. After spending over a hundred wishes to get Childe (which would’ve cost...
A double-edged sword? Once-famous brands are getting into crypto
8.4.2022
As more defunct companies try to cash in on their former glory by using various crypto avenues, experts are divided if this is really good for the industry
Ms. Pac-Man Bizarrely Replaced With New Wife (?) In Pac-Man Game
8.4.2022
While long-time fans of the series will know that Ms. Pac-Man is the wife of Mr. Pac-Man, and appeared as such in the 1984 side-scroller Pac-Land, a new re-release of the game has gone to the trouble of changing the character.Read more
Report: Facebook Eyes ‘Zuck Bucks’ And NFTs As It Loses Users To TikTok
7.4.2022
Facebook parent company Meta reportedly has plans to launch a new digital currency for the metaverse. Internally, employees at Meta are calling the unannounced currency “Zuck Bucks.” These new digital dollars won’t likely be connected to any kind of blockchain, but don’t worry; Meta, led by...
Call Of Duty Maker Announces Raises For QA Workers Amid Unionization Fight
7.4.2022
Activision Blizzard announced a big win for its part-time developers today as it battles an ongoing union push at one of the big studios behind Call of Duty: Warzone. Contract QA staff across the company will be converted to full-time, and also see their minimum hourly rate raised to $20. That’s...
Genshin Impact Update Makes Its Saddest Anime Boy Even Sadder
7.4.2022
The most poignant lines in Genshin Impact’s latest update came when I discovered a bouquet of white flowers laid next to the bodies of dead Hilichurls. As I surveyed the grisly scene, the wanderer Dainsleif said, “The Inteyvat [flower] is a symbol for a wanderer far from home, signifying...
Even Konami Agrees With The Criticism About eFootball's Quality
7.4.2022
eFootball has been an utter fiasco. The game hasn’t been up to snuff and has let down a lot of fans. I know it, you know it, and well, Konami does, too.Read more
Next Tomb Raider Game Will Use Unreal Engine 5
5.4.2022
Development on the next Tomb Raider game was announced on today’s “The State of Unreal” livestream. The general manager at Crystal Dynamics, Dallas Dickinson, confirmed that the studio has started developing Lara Croft’s next adventure in Unreal Engine 5.Read more
Codes To Unlock Secret Characters And Ships In Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
5.4.2022
There are approximately 40,000 playable characters and ships in the new Lego Star Wars game. (Editor’s note: No, there’s only like 350.) But most of them are locked when you start, and while completing all of the story missions will unlock some of these heroes and villains from a galaxy far...
April’s Game Pass Lineup Is No Joke
5.4.2022
Over the past few months, Microsoft has bucked expectations and irritated games journalists everywhere by dropping gems, like Tunic and Paradise Killer, on Game Pass without warning. Then it went silent on the Game Pass front for weeks. For a while there, some reasonable observers (hi) assumed...
Reddit Is Hosting What May Be The Internet's Most Wholesome Fan War
4.4.2022
Who produced this amazing pixel art of Elden Ring’s Ranni sitting next to the protagonist of Hollow Knight, and why? The answer is r/Place, a Reddit battlefield where anyone can place a dot and change the course of meme history. In an era where so much of the modern internet is trash, r/Place...
Military MMO Dev Wargaming Cuts Ties With Belarus, Russia Over Invasion works
4.4.2022
Hit freemium developer Wargaming is abandoning its operations in Belarus and Russia over the invasion of Ukraine, now in its 39th day. The World of Tanks maker said it has turned over live operations of its games in both countries to its now-former studio in Russia and will “not profit from this...
The Week In Games: In A Galaxy Far, Far Away... And Filled With Lego Bricks
4.4.2022
After a few delays, the next entry in the Lego Star Wars series is nearly here and is arriving on Tuesday on... everything! Read more