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Destiny 2 Takes Players Back To The Leviathan Raid In Season Of The Haunted
24.5.2022
In what has surely been the strangest leadup to a new Destiny 2 season in some time, Bungie surprise revealed Season of the Haunted last night after it accidently leaked ahead of Tuesday’s launch and some big things are happening. The giant Cabal ship from the first raid is back, its communing with...
First Mover Americas: TRON Outperforms BTC and Crypto Takes a Lead Role at Davos
24.5.2022
The latest moves in crypto markets in context for May 24, 2022
The PS5's Worst Game Is Taking A Long, Hard Look At Itself
23.5.2022
Babylon’s Fall fell indeed, and now the live-service loot slasher’s next season is going to last twice as long as Square Enix had originally planned. After promising players everything was just fine a couple months ago, Platinum Games is now planning to “re-evaluate” its future content plans.Read...
Genshin Impact Is Back, And The Update Was Worth Waiting For
20.5.2022
Genshin Impact just came out of its first-ever delay, and HoYoverse just announced a trove of events, quests, and features. More importantly, “Hidden Dreams in the Depths” adds the highly anticipated Yelan and Kuki Shinobu to the character gacha. And I’m excited for the new gameplay possibilities...
Destiny 2’s Loot Vault Is Finally Getting Bigger After Three Long Years
19.5.2022
Destiny 2 players have begged, year in and year out, and now Bungie is finally answering. Beginning in Season 17 players will see their vault space increased to 600 slots, because nothing fills the void like more space for hoarding.Read more
Superstar Final Fantasy XIV Producer’s First Square Enix Game Was Canceled
19.5.2022
Naoki Yoshida, the man often credited with turning Final Fantasy XIV around after the MMO’s miserable launch and who is now in charge of bringing the upcoming Final Fantasy XVI to life, wasn’t always the superstar we know him as today. In fact, the higher-ups at Square Enix canceled Yoshida’s very...
Gaming’s Best Character Creators, From Demon’s Souls To Final Fantasy
19.5.2022
Sometimes I think I like sliding into a character creator sandbox more than the game it’s attached to. Character creators let me play a benevolent god that only creates hot people—like Abercrombie in the 2010s, except I’m a socialist. I feel powerful and clever until I run smack into a wall:...
Bungie Calls Out Gaming Racism After Buffalo Shooting, Won't Be 'Muzzled' By Sony
18.5.2022
Yesterday players expected Bungie to reveal the latest content coming to Destiny 2 in the form of Season 17. Instead, following the latest mass shooting in Buffalo, NY, Bungie called on fellow gaming companies to examine how racism and radicalization occur in their own online communities even...
Messy But Beautiful, Swansong Captures The Darkness Of Vampire: The Masquerade
18.5.2022
Any video game bearing the title Vampire: The Masquerade has a lot of heavy lifting to do. With the legacy of the cult-favorite hot mess that is Bloodlines, and the AWOL status of Bloodlines 2, many VtM fans (my fellow kindred) have an ever-lingering hunger to see this classic setting finally...
Turkish Referee Flips Bitcoin at Istanbul Derby Kick-Off, Soccer Authority Launches Probe
16.5.2022
A soccer referee’s decision to toss a bitcoin before the start of a recent match between Istanbul giants Beşiktaş and Fenerbahçe has sparked controversy in Turkey. The country’s football authority is trying to establish why a crypto coin was used for the ritual when...
New Cloud Technology Warns You When Not To Play Kingdom Hearts
14.5.2022
Once, long ago, buying and playing a video game was pretty easy. You bought the disc or cart, stuck it in the console, and hit play. Not so much anymore. Case in point: The not-so-great cloud-streaming-only versions of Kingdom Hearts released on Switch earlier this year recently got an update,...
A Cyberpunk Game That's Blade Runner Meets Groundhog Day
13.5.2022
Loopmancer is what would happen if a cyberpunk Sleeping Dogs was made into a Groundhog Day-esque roguelite. Read more
After Terra's Collapse, Cryptoverse Reflects on ‘Ponzi-like Assets’, Role of VCs, and 'Ignorant' Crypto People
13.5.2022
It’s time for some self-reflection in the crypto community after the spectacular collapse of the terraUSD (UST) stablecoin and the entire Terra (LUNA) ecosystem.
A debate about what crypto investing should be like, how crypto projects are promoted and whether ‘bitcoin-only’ is the best strategy...
PS5, Xbox Delays Are Setting Switch Up To Dominate The Rest Of 2022
13.5.2022
Following yesterday’s delay of Redfall and Starfield, Microsoft’s two big blockbusters for the year, the release slate for the back half of 2022 might seem especially barren. Pop quiz: Have you been paying attention to the Switch?Read more
New York Man Arrested, Charged With Fraud For Alleged Role in $59M Crypto Pyramid Scheme
12.5.2022
A New York man has been arrested and charged with fraud for his role in alleged crypto investing scheme “EminiFX."
Blackrock, Citadel, Gemini Deny Involvement in Terra Collapse
12.5.2022
The world’s largest asset manager, Blackrock, and hedge fund giant Citadel Securities have denied claims that they had a role in the fall of terrausd (UST) and terra (LUNA). In addition, crypto exchange Gemini has denied making a bitcoin loan that resulted in the terra collapse. Blackrock...
Citadel Securities, BlackRock Claim They Had No Role in the UST Collapse
12.5.2022
Global market maker Citadel Securities and major asset manager BlackRock have denied involvement in the collapse of Terra's algorithmic stablecoin TerraUSD (UST).
The assertions came after a conspiracy theory that alleged Citadel Securities and BlackRock made a coordinated attack on UST...
Final Fantasy XIV Players Sent To In-Game Jail As Devs Mull Mod Controversy
12.5.2022
At least two Final Fantasy XIV players pulled into an in-game jail by moderators while streaming the massively multiplayer online game this week. Many believe this was done to reprimand them for using third-party modifications to optimize HUD details for high-level raiding, a frequent pain point...
Let's All Retire To The Happiest Village In Video Games
11.5.2022
Nara is an artist from Korea who, as a fun side project, has imagined a game with the visuals of Link to the Past or an early Pokémon title, but with none of that combat or danger messing up the vibes.Read more
Pokémon x Converse Sneaker Collab Looks Lovely
11.5.2022
Pokémon and Converse Japan have announced a collaboration that will see four pairs of Chuck Taylors released, each one—appropriately, given the shoe in question—paying a coloured homage to the series’ earliest roots.Read more