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Epic Games has responded to concerns over high CPU usage by its Epic Games Store app. Director of Publishing Strategy Sergey Galyonkin was notified of the issue and has since clarified that it’s a bug with the current version of the software. “We’ve identified the issue and [are] currently testing the fix,” Galyonkin said in…
Update: Hidalgo has since issued an apology, stating that his words were meant to be self-deprecating. Though this seems to have done little to ease tensions between LucasFilm and the Star Wars community. LucasFilm has once again come under fire for their treatment of fans following a Twitter fracas between popular Canadian YouTuber Star Wars…
The Gambling Health Alliance in the United Kingdom recently did a study on loot boxes and children, and the results… aren’t great. The survey looked at 611 young people from England, Scotland, and Wales, There’s a lot of interesting information to pick apart here. The UK Gambling Commission found that 23% of gamers aged 11…
The Epic Games Store, aka that place you get free games every now and then, has been a point of contention for PC gamers for a couple years now. Now it seems the issues over data gathering are once again coming back to haunt them. Reddit user Neoncarbon noted that his AMD Ryzen 7 5800X…
Deck the halls with great games. We’ve faced a great many challenges this year. Despite a pair of colossal stinkers, 2020 actually ended up being a curiously strong year for gaming overall. It took a long time to really nail down which games met our best of the best. There’s just so many to chose…
A riot broke out last Saturday at a Bangalore, India factory owned by Taiwanese tech firm Wistron. The company has been contracted out by Apple to manufacture the iPhone in India. Shortly after the night shift ended, the majority of the plant’s 2,000 employees went on a rampage, causing several million dollars worth of damage…
The fall of CD Projekt Red is a bit of an unprecedented moment in the history of gaming. Within the span of a week, they went from one of the most loved developers in the world, to one of the most despised. The company seems hell bent though on ruining their reputation, as they’ve made…
Sony has pulled Cyberpunk 2077 from the PlayStation Store, in a rare move by the console maker. All mention of the game has been completely scrubbed from both the store itself and the PlayStation website. We have confirmed this to be the case for both the US and Canadian regions. If you manually search for…
So Cyberpunk 2077 came out last week, and the launch on 8th gen consoles was a bit of a disaster to put it mildly. I’ve already written a couple pieces on that, so you can read those if you so fancy. What I want to address here though is the reaction from the community. Or…
How the mighty have fallen. CD Projekt Red was once the chosen one. They were supposed to bring a measure of sanity back to gaming, not leave it a broken mess. Yet in the immortal words of Angry Joe, they done fucked it up. To call Cyberpunk 2077 “broken” is putting it mildly. The game…