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Blizzard has managed to raise quite the ire of Diablo fans this week after announcing the latest game in the series, Diablo: Immortal, would be exclusive to mobile. During what was quite possibly the most awkward press conference in BlizzCon history, one audience member remarked that Immortal seemed to have many features PC users had been…
Nvidia’s new RTX 2080 Ti may be suffering from abnormally high failure rates. Many early adopters have taken to forums and Reddit to complain that their new cards have suddenly started producing display artefacts, various errors, and random crashes. According to German tech site ComputerBase, manufactures are reporting significantly higher RMA rates than normal, though…
Sony is saying no to buxom anime bosoms on the PlayStation, a move which has otaku all hot and bothered. Earlier this month, localization studio XSEED announced they were delaying the PS4 version of Senran Kagura Burst: ReNewal due to Sony taking issue with the game’s “Intimacy Mode”. Which presumably allows you to get fresh…
It’s no secret that Nvidia’s new RTX line of graphics cards are expensive. A lot more expensive than the previous generation, with prices for the top end “Ti” models now bursting through the $1,000 barrier. With all the controversy surrounding the price hike, I decided to do some digging to see just how expensive they…
Nearly 40 employees have left DICE this year, Swedish tech site Di Digital has confirmed. This corresponds to 10% of the Battlefield developer’s workforce of 400 people. Sources told Di that the reason for the exodus was due to the failure of Star Wars: Battlefront II last year, as well as increased competition from other…
Two properties in Melborne, Australia have been raided in connection with the distributing of the Infamous cheat tool for GTA: Online. It’s alleged that the software, which retails for $40, allowed players to generate virtual currency and enable a “god mode” which makes them invulnerable among other things. A court order has also frozen the assets…
An article came out earlier this week claiming that Rockstar developers were putting in 100 hour weeks to finish up Red Dead Redemption 2. Once again it’s opened up a can of worms over the practice of “crunch time” in the games industry, and whether it’s exploitative. In order to get a game finished by…
To the shock and panic of millions of netizens, YouTube went down earlier today. No more cats in boxes or celebrity vlogs for the masses. It also lead to a spike in searches for alternatives to the popular video site. You might be surprised, but they do exist, and some of them are actually halfway…
The PS Vita was not exactly a runaway success for Sony. While it sold reasonably well in the grand scheme of things, it still paled in comparison to its predecessor. Nor did it manage to crack Nintendo’s juggernaut, or the newly rising mobile game market. Skip ahead a few years and the mobile games market…
A damning report leaked to Breitbart has seemingly confirmed what a lot of us have long suspected, that Google is moving to increase censorship on the mainstream internet. The 85-page internal report from the company’s Insight Lab titled ‘The Good Censor‘ details how the company’s top executives want to move the internet away from a…