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Court Urges YouTuber Banned From Roblox To Stop Making Terrorist Threats
21.1.2022
Controversial YouTuber Benjamin “Ruben Sim” Simon has been banned from gaming platform Roblox after allegedly leading an in-game “cybermob” to harass its predominantly younger player base with racist and homophobic slurs, and some sexual harassment to boot. According to the Oakland, CA court that...
Foxhole Players Are Striking Over 'Increased Stress And Responsibility'
17.1.2022
Foxhole is a top-down shooter where players can take on various roles in huge battles, one of those roles being logistical, which involves crafting the weapons used in the fight. A group of those players are currently on strike, saying “we believe that Foxhole should not have a gameplay experience...
Uh-oh, March Is Even More Packed With Games Than February
12.1.2022
For a spell, it seemed that February would be the busiest month for gaming in 2022, with marquees like Sifu, Elden Ring, and Horizon Forbidden West crowding the calendar. But in recent days, March has officially taken the crown as the best (worst?) month to love video games. Folks, it’s getting...
Roblox CEO Outed For Using Completely Legal, Completely Ridiculous Tax Dodge
29.12.2021
Game-making platform and fledgling metaverse Roblox made the news yesterday as the focus of a New York Times report about a ‘90s era tax cut that’s spun out of control. Originally created to foster investment in small businesses, the Qualified Small Business Stock, or Q.S.B.S., exemption...
The Arcade In The Last Of Us 2 Has Seemingly Closed IRL
23.12.2021
There’s an arcade in The Last of Us Part II in which Ellie fights a bloater. It’s a tense encounter, with the scrappy avenger battling the zombie all on her own. The fight’s backdrop of gaming ruins is apparently based on a real spot in Seattle. Now, the real-life arcade, GameWorks Seattle,...
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...
Tencent Buys Up Back 4 Blood Devs Turtle Rock, Its Sixth Studio Purchase In 2021
17.12.2021
Today, one of the largest companies in the world, Tencent, announced it acquired Turtle Rock Studios, the developers behind the recently released zombie shooter Back 4 Blood. The deal is just the latest in a long list of acquisitions over the last few years for the Chinese tech giant, including...
Bungie's HR Head Steps Down, Had Reported Executive For Abuse
16.12.2021
A week after a major report from IGN detailing troubling allegations of workplace culture, crunch, and hiring practices within Bungie, the studio’s Head of HR has stepped down from her role.Read more
Modders Hack Elden Ring Demo, Sprinkle In Some GTA San Andreas
15.12.2021
Elden Ring isn’t coming out until February 25 of next year, but that hasn’t stopped modders from adding some truly hilarious content to the game. Thanks in part to the newfound ease of jailbreaking the PS4, one modder was able to add Grand Theft Auto San Andreas’ iconic protag Carl “CJ” Johnson...
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...
Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon Is Fantastic
14.12.2021
Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon is one of those games where all of the obvious ways to describe its constituent parts don’t do them, or it, justice. It’s a falling-block match game in which you score more gems by chaining together more and more of the same enemy . It’s a roguelite in which you unlock...
PlayStation 4 Jailbroken, Exploit May Work On PS5 Too
13.12.2021
December 13, 2021 may go down in history as the day the PlayStation 4 finally got blown wide open, as a trio of noted console hackers just released a new, ready-to-run kernel exploit for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 4 Pro that works on firmware version 9.00 and earlier. In other words, running...
A Decade Ago, Epic Announced Fortnite And A Lot Has Changed Since Then
12.12.2021
This past Thursday, The Game Awards 2021 happened. It was a messy, ad-filled event that did, every once in a while, give out some awards. But before Geoff Keighley was in charge of The Game Awards, he was running Spike TV’s Video Game Awards. And in 2011, a decade ago this weekend, his old award...
New World Bots Are Stealing All Resources And Tanking The Economy
30.11.2021
Amazon Game Studios’ New World has been plagued by a number of issues since the MMORPG launched in September, from incredibly simple exploits to repeated pauses in its economy due to cheaters. The game’s latest confounding issue comes in a deluge of high-level farming bots that are stripping...
Modders Fight GTA Lawsuit As ‘Definitive’ Bundle Crashes And Burns
17.11.2021
Attorneys representing the four defendants in Take-Two Interactive Software’s copyright infringement lawsuit against a group of Grand Theft Auto modders recently responded to the video game conglomerate’s complaint, flatly denying several allegations of wrongdoing. They also argue that their...
Modders, Not Rockstar, Have Fixed The GTA Trilogy's Infamously Ugly Rain
15.11.2021
The recently “remastered” GTA trilogy has some of the ugliest rain I’ve ever seen, and a handful of days later, modders have fixed it. No longer will you walk the streets of Vice City at night, only to be covered in the drippings of Spiderman’s leaky web-shooter. Finally, you can be free of that...
Classic Mods And Old GTA Games Didn’t Need To Die For These Unfinished Remakes
12.11.2021
After months of rumors, speculation, leaks, and teasers, Rockstar finally released the remastered Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - Definitive Edition collection yesterday. It landed with a thud as players encountered and documented countless visual bugs, gameplay glitches, and odd changes to models...
Horror Developer Makes 'Hostile' Kickstarter Update, Then Apologizes To Fans
10.11.2021
The creative director of upcoming horror/shooter game Scorn, Ljubomir Peklar, has issued an apology after an update he made to Kickstarter backers last week went horribly wrong.Read more
Stardew Valley Dev's Next Game Has 'Greater Focus' On Combat
1.11.2021
Revealed just last week, Stardew Valley developer Eric Barone has already provided a nice little update about his next game, Haunted Chocolatier. According to a new blog post, the upcoming action-RPG has a “greater focus on combat” in comparison to his previous hit.Read more
Deathverse Is A Surprise Follow-Up To Suda's Let It Die
27.10.2021
In 2016, Goichi Suda’s Grasshopper Manufacture and Supertrick Games released Let It Die, a roguelike that had players climbing up a tower killing everything in their paths. Today, Sony announced a surprise successor to the game, only this time it’s a multiplayer “survival action game,” instead.Read...