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Taco Bell Held An E3-Like Event And It Was Weird
9.2.2024
Hello everyone. Welcome to Friday. You made it to the end of the week. Congrats. I have a treat for you all: Taco Bell’s 2024 Live Mas Event. What’s that? It’s basically a Taco Bell mini-E3 complete with musical acts, announcements, and all the cringey moments you crave from something like this....
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17.1.2024
Ask any software engineer and they’ll tell you that coding date logic can be a nightmare. Developers need to consider timezones, weird date defaults, and platform-specific date formats. The easiest way to work with dates is to reduce the date to the most simple format possible — usually...
Invest in the Future of the Planet For a Profit – How Chimpzee Turns Sustainability into a Source of Crypto Passive Income
5.12.2023
Disclaimer: The text below is a press release that is not part of Cryptonews.com editorial content. Sustainability and passive income? It’s a weird combo, for sure. But Chimpzee has managed to combine them by drawing on its Web3 capabilities. The new green crypto project uses a meme coin packaging...
GTA: Vice City's Weird Moon Easter Egg Finally Explained
27.11.2023
In 2001’s genre-defining PlayStation 2 smash Grand Theft Auto III, if you pulled out a sniper rifle and shot at the moon, it would change size. For years, fans tried to explain why this funny little secret was included in the game. Was it a reference to something? A smaller part of a larger secret?...
Mario Wonder Proves Nintendo Has Perfected Weird Little Guys
27.10.2023
Everyone loves a weird little guy. Maybe it’s Danny DeVito, maybe it’s cats, maybe it’s Turgle, Meat Boy, or the Prince of All Cosmos. The longer the list of gaming’s weird little guys, the more Nintendo shows up on it. It’s been churning out weird little guys for decades. Goombas. Midna. Basically...
9 Weird Video Game Tidbits From The Elon Musk Biography
20.9.2023
Walter Isaacson’s recently published biography of unhinged kingpin Elon Musk, Elon Musk, unloaded several bombshells about Musk’s family and hectic approach to business, but Kotaku is most interested in his relationship to video games. So I compiled nine revealing video game facts from the Musk...
Behold The Pulsating Human Blob That Awaits You In The Crew Motorfest
19.9.2023
I didn’t expect cosmic body horror when I booted up The Crew Motorfest, Ubisoft’s new racing video game. Yet, that’s what I find each time I start the game. Every time I play Motorfest, the pulsating blob of humans is there, waiting for me. A horrific entity trapped inside my Xbox, unable to speak...
Atari's Making A Pong Sequel About The Ball Escaping The Paddles
30.8.2023
Pong is one of those video games that I don’t need to explain. I say Pong and you can see it in your mind. But what if Pong was more? What if that ball you batted around for decades could escape and see the world? That’s the question asked and answered in Qomp 2, Atari’s upcoming, and odd, sequel...
Top PEPE Holder Floods Exchanges With Meme Coin, Spooking Investors and Prompting 12% Plunge
24.8.2023
Fans Think Mario’s Voice Sounds Weird In The New Game [Update: Charles Martinet Wasn't Involved]
21.8.2023
Mario is back in Super Mario Bros. Wonder, but longtime fans don’t think the Italian plumber sounds like his old self. They’re now listening to a one-second clip of Mario saying “Wonder” over and over again to try and decipher if it still sounds like longtime series voice actor Charles...
14 Weird Things Diehard Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Fans Have To Explain
3.7.2023
Tears of the Kingdom is, without doubt, an extraordinary game. It’s possibly one of the best video games ever made, achieves elements and showing off features that other games have strived toward for decades as nonchalant asides. We absolutely love The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Read...
MrBeast’s Face Is Haunting Every YouTube Video With This One Weird Tool
3.7.2023
They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should:Someone’s gone and made a Google Chrome extension that turns every image on YouTube into the Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson thumbnail version. It’s called “YouTube MrBeastify” and it’s too cursed...
AI Eye: AI travel booking hilariously bad, 3 weird uses for ChatGPT, crypto plugins
29.6.2023
ChatGPT and Bard can help you book fictional hotels and awful 29-hour flights, 3 bizarre uses for AI, and do crypto plugins actually work?
Fans Think Mario’s Voice Sounds Weird In The New Game
21.6.2023
Mario is back in Super Mario Bros. Wonder, but longtime fans don’t think the Italian plumber sounds like his old self. They’re now listening to a one-second clip of Mario saying “Wonder” over and over again to try and decipher if it still sounds like longtime series voice actor Charles...
40+ Weird Vintage Video Game Ads We Can’t Stop Thinking About
16.6.2023
For a long time, perhaps due to the infancy of the medium, there was no “right” way to advertise home video games. As a result, some of the earliest video game companies—including some we now recognize as major industry players, like Nintendo—ended up creating some of the most bizarre...
Nintendo Switch Online Gets Another Weird Assortment Of Classic Games
6.6.2023
Nintendo is slowly but surely rounding out the Switch Online retro game libraries with another trickle of random games. From a special rumble edition of Kirby on the Game Boy to a Famicom game that was never previously ported to the NES in the West, June’s additions are one of the most eclectic...
Community on SushiSwap exploit: The $3.3 hack is 'weird’
10.4.2023
A Twitter user called out SushiSwap and urged the platform to take steps to prevent incidents in the future
President Herbert Hoover Saves the Day for a Crypto Bank? Yeah, That’s Weird
15.1.2023
Silvergate got propped up by the Federal Home Loan Bank system created in 1932
Released Today, The Last Google Stadia Game Is A Piece Of History
13.1.2023
If you haven’t heard, Google Stadia is shutting down and closing shop next week. But before the never-quite-successful game streaming service dies, it has provided one neat (and free) little gift you can only play for a few days before it all goes offline. Read more
Star Wars Has Been Used To Sell Some Weird-Ass Products
4.1.2023
Before the prequel trilogy released in the late ‘90s/early noughties and Disney bought LucasFilm for an exorbitant amount of money in 2015, Star Wars licensing was a bizarre no man’s land. While I was, admittedly, a bit too young to recall anything other than plastic lightsabers and scratchy Padme...