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2K Games is shamelessly begging Belgian fans to ask their government to repeal the loot box ban. Earlier this year, the Belgium Gaming Commission (BGC) declared that loot boxes in video games violate the country’s gambling laws. In a press release, the company said that “while [they] disagree with this position, [they] are working to…
Last week, EA announced that pre-orders for Battlefield V are unexpectedly weak. Which should surprise absolutely nobody. The game had come under fire for historical inaccuracy and pandering to social activists. Battlefield V features a British female/amputee protagonist, along with black female Nazis. Long time fans of the series had anticipated the game would return to…
Why did games tend to run worse on the PlayStation 3 than they did on the Xbox 360? A few years ago, I covered the memory limitations of the system. Though that’s not the whole story. Much of it boils down to the heart of the console: the enigmatic Cell Broadband Engine. Perhaps the most…
Never go full shill When I die, my last thoughts will be about how much time I spent not having ray tracing in my life. At least that’s according to Tom’s Hardware editor Avram Piltch. On August 24th, 2018, Piltch penned a rather baffling article regarding Nvidia’s new Turing GPUs, titled “Just Buy It: Why…
If you want one of Nvidia’s brand spanking new RTX 2000 series video cards, be prepared to cough up some more dough. 72% more to be exact. The graphics chip maker announced their new “Turing” series cards at Gamescom on Monday. The main gimmick is real time ray tracing. A rendering method which uses complex…
Facebook, in order to combat “fake news”, is implementing a trustworthiness rating. No, it’s not for ranking articles, but rather to rank you. Well, there’s your taste of Orwell for the day. According to the Washington Post, users will be ranked on their trustworthiness on a scale from zero to one. The advertising giant has…
Well known games critic John “Total Biscuit” Bain passed away this week after a long battle with cancer. The gaming community plunged into mourning at the news. Well, everyone except BioWare’s David Cooks, who took the opportunity to mock Bain’s passing. Shortly after Total Biscuit’s death was announced by his wife, Cooks took to Twitter stating that “the…
Rose Tico™. She’s the Star Wars™ character Asian girls needed so they’d have someone to look up to. At least since Disney unceremoniously canned Jan Ors out from “canon”. But who needs interesting characters anyway? We’ve got Rose instead. She’s short, she’s annoying, and she’s here to point the finger of scorn at all your…
Ever wanted to be the tyrannical dictator of your own South American country? In Tropico, you can! Tropico is part city builder, part economy management sim. You play the role of El Presidente, ruler of the titular Caribbean island nation. How you got to power, nobody knows for sure. Maybe it was a communist revolution,…
Better late than never. 2017 was a bit of a mixed bag for video games, but when it delivered, oh boy did it deliver. Here’s the very best of the best. Bronze medal goes to… Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (Ninja Theory) Hellblade is a deep psychological thriller unlike anything we’ve seen before in video games. You…