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European Central Bank to Work on Settlement System for Distributed-Ledger Transactions
20.2.2025
The two-stage process will start with a link to the existing Target system
PUBG Creator's Next Game Is Very Different But Even More Ambitious
20.2.2025
Nearly a decade ago, Brendan Greene’s obsession with battle royales fundamentally reshaped gaming. Now the designer, best known by his online moniker “PlayerUnknown,” is toiling away on a new set of projects that could change much more than that if they’re successful. PUBG: Battlegrounds redefined...
Split Fiction Is More It Takes Two, But With An Unlikely Inspiration
19.2.2025
When I played Hazelight’s last game, It Takes Two, back in 2021, it was with an ex who’d had different ideas about where our relationship should go than I did. This made playing as a squabbling, estranged couple in a co-op platformer more fitting for that moment in my life than I could have...
Company Behind $700 AI Device Announces All Of 'Em Will Be Bricked In 9 Days
19.2.2025
Do you remember Humane’s AI Pin? It was a small $700 device that was supposed to replace your phone, using AI to answer any question and solve all your problems. Well, guess what? It flopped. And now the company behind is being bought by HP, and all the AI Pins still out there will stop working...
One Of The Best Deals In Gaming Won't Work On Switch 2
19.2.2025
If you were holding on to any Nintendo game vouchers, waiting to use them on Switch 2, don’t bother. The company recently confirmed the special coupons will only work for current Switch games. Who knows what the future will bring, but for now it looks like one of the best deals in gaming won’t...
Xbox CEO Confirms What We Knew: The Console Wars Are Over
18.2.2025
In case you didn’t notice, the console wars—the decades-long battle between mulitple companies and their plastic game boxes—ended a few years ago. And while Sony continues to fight on with its PlayStation despite the war being over, Xbox CEO Phil Spencer recently confirmed that, yeah, it’s...
Elon Musk’s Xai Launches Grok 3, Claims AI Supremacy Throne
18.2.2025
Grok 3, the latest AI model from Xai, a company owned by Elon Musk, was launched recently. The model allegedly beats Chatgpt and Deepseek, in selected tests. Elon Musk’s Grok 3 Claims the AI Throne From Rivals in Chatbot Arena The artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot arena has a new leader....
Nintendo Switch's Excellent Gold Points Scheme Is Being Discontinued
18.2.2025
Nintendo has announced, with no explanation as to why, that it will be discontinuing Nintendo Gold Points on March 24. The scheme, where points were awarded when buying both physical and digital editions of games, could then be redeemed for discounts. But, ahead of the (still unknown) launch of...
Tether Partners With Guinea to Drive Digital Transformation and Economic Growth Through Blockchain Technology
18.2.2025
Tether, the largest stablecoin company, announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Republic of Guinea on February 17, aimed at accelerating the country’s digital transformation and economic growth through blockchain technology. This strategic partnership will focus...
Epic Has No Plans To Stop Giving Away Free Games After Giving Away $2,229 Worth In 2024
14.2.2025
Every month you can go on the Epic Games Store and snag a usually pretty decent game for absolutely free. It’s not clear if this largesse is meaningfully moving the needle in the company’s battle to establish itself as a competitor to Steam, but it’s certainly a nice bonus. And after giving away...
GTA Online Could Get Updates After GTA 6 If People Are Still Playing, Suggests Take-Two CEO
14.2.2025
While Grand Theft Auto Online is over a decade old at this point, and many players are likely ready to move on to this year’s Grand Theft Auto 6, Take-Two’s CEO suggests the aging online game might continue to get updates so long as enough people are still playing.Read more
Jeep Owners Dealing With Excessive Pop-Up Ads, Reminding Us How The Future Sucks
12.2.2025
Imagine driving down the road in your car and stopping at an intersection. The moment you do, an ad pops up on your dashboard, covering your GPS and forcing you to close it. Then you stop again and it happens again. And again. Well, that scenario has been happening to numerous Jeep owners recently...
Fireblocks Adds Support for Sony's Soneium, First Step in Provision of Custody Services
12.2.2025
Support for Soneium is a precursor for firms to use Fireblocks' technology to provide crypto custody services on the month-old blockchain
The Switch 2 Shouldn't Lock Classic Nintendo Games Behind A Subscription Paywall
11.2.2025
Nintendo is currently the only console maker that makes you pay for a monthly subscription to access its classic games instead of letting you buy them a la carte. That needs to change with the Switch 2.Read more
From What's Out To What's Coming: 17 Cool Hype Games We Can't Wait To Check Out In February
10.2.2025
Welcome to February, an otherwise quiet, wintery month that has quickly established itself in recent years as one of the hottest times for developers to release their games. Some of the biggest games of 2025 are out this month, as well as some of the longest, with February bookended by massive RPGs...
Valve Bans Forced In-Game Ads From All Steam Titles
10.2.2025
If you, like most people on Earth, a frequent mobile gamer, you’ll be all-too aware of the bane of in-game ads. Because the freemium model proves by far the most successful way to release games on telephones, you pay by sitting through agonizing ads with fake countdown timers, ‘x’ buttons that...
The Internet Reacts To PlayStation Network Being Down
8.2.2025
Yes, PlayStation Network is still down over 14 hours after the initial outage started. The service for PlayStation 5 and PS4 players that lets them go online, chat with friends, and do all the other things fans expect to do on a modern console is integral for playing everything from Fortnite...
Switch 2 Price Speculation, A First Look At The Next Battlefield, And More Of The Week's Top News
8.2.2025
Our next official look at the Switch 2 is still a few months off, but that hasn’t stopped folks from speculating about its price, or obsessing over the details we may have gleaned about the packaging its games will come in. Elsewhere, EA gave us a (very brief!) first look at the next Battlefield...
An AI Bread Horse Was The Most Popular Thing On Facebook Last Month
7.2.2025
While Facebook has sucked for a long time, its become much worse in the last year or so thanks to the rise of AI-generated slop that has completely taken over the site. And now, according to newly published data, it seems that one of those AI slop posts was the biggest thing on the site last month....
Get 2024's Funniest Game (And 26 Others) For Just $15
7.2.2025
The Safe In Our World PC game bundle is now available, which means that for just $15 you can get over two dozen games, including one of the funniest games ever, and you get to support a charity dedicated to helping people with their mental health. Read more