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Report: Netflix Doubles Down On Games As Stock Plummets
22.4.2022
Netflix built its foundation on streamlined DVD rentals and, eventually, on tepid “prestige” TV series that people talk about for a week before forgetting they ever existed in the first place. Now, amid a rare financial stagnation, Netflix plans to commit hard to games, per a new report in...
Elden Ring ‘One-Button Malenia Challenge’ Champion Rightly Drags ‘Git Gud’ Jerks
22.4.2022
Despite Elden Ring’s notorious difficulty, folks are always looking for new challenges in the Lands Between. Malenia, a notoriously difficult late-game boss, has become a particular fixation for the community at large, especially after a nearly naked player became a celebrity by killing...
The Nintendo of America Contractors Who Feel Like Second Class Workers
22.4.2022
A union-busting complaint recently filed with the National Labor Relations Board accused Nintendo of America and contract worker agency Aston Carter of surveillance, retaliation, and other unfair labor practices. According to four sources familiar with the incident, that complaint, first reported...
Beloved Tales From The Borderlands Finally Getting 2022 Sequel It Deserves
21.4.2022
Today, Gearbox announced at PAX East that it was developing a new entry in the Tales From The Borderlands series. The original Telltale-developed game was a narrative-focused adventure game, similar to The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us. The just-announced sequel will star new characters...
Why Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Is Selling Zillions Of Copies
21.4.2022
WB Games announced today that Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga had a massive launch, selling through over 3 million copies worldwide, and has set new records for Lego games across all platforms around the world. To put it another way: This latest Lego Star Wars game is one of the biggest releases...
Report: Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg Killed News About Bobby Kotick’s Restraining Order
21.4.2022
Between 2016 and 2019, Facebook exec Sheryl Sandberg used her political clout to bury two news stories about a restraining order filed against Activision Blizzard exec Bobby Kotick, according to a bombshell report this morning from The Wall Street Journal. Sandberg was dating Kotick at...
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...
Elden Ring Update Accidentally Made Malenia So Much Harder Now, Cool
20.4.2022
Elden Ring’s already a punishing game filled with tough bosses that’ll break your spirits, but patch 1.04, which changed the game balance in late April, makes one of the hardest enemies even harder. Players are reporting the late-game boss Malenia, Blade of Miquella is totally busted now. There...
Head Xbox Researcher For Achievements And Game Pass leaves After Nearly 20 Years
20.4.2022
Microsoft’s head of Xbox research and design, Chris Novak, will leave the company after nearly two decades, he announced yesterday. The veteran console architect was a leading creative force in a division that oversaw the creation of everything from achievements to Game Pass, a service that upended...
Nintendo Worker Files Complaint With National Labor Relations Board
19.4.2022
On April 15, an anonymous employee filed a complaint against Nintendo and contracting company Aston Carter with the National Labor Relations Board. The public case docket lists allegations of coercive statements, discharge, retaliation against concerted activities, and surveillance. Read more
Elden Ring Patch Patches Patches
19.4.2022
Elden Ring’s latest update includes a proper ending to Patches’ quest that sees the fan favorite NPC reward players with his iconic pose.Read more
Report: Sega Developing New, 'Big-Budget' Jet Set Radio & Crazy Taxi Games
19.4.2022
Earlier this month we learned that Sega’s big, secret “Super Game” that has been in development for a while was actually a series of “AAA games”. Bloomberg is now reporting that the first two of those are “big-budget” Jet Set Radio and Crazy Taxi reboots.Read more
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...
Mozilla to Reinstate Crypto Donations — Organization Will Not Accept Proof-of-Work Cryptocurrencies
13.4.2022
During the first week of January, the software community Mozilla revealed it was pausing cryptocurrency donations after citing environmental concerns. 14 weeks later, Mozilla decided last week it will accept crypto donations again, but only from digital assets that leverage a proof-of-stake (PoS)...