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Hard games have come back in vogue in recent years, largely due to the success of the Dark Souls franchise. This counters a past trend that saw games become progressively easier as studios tried to court more casual players. This ruffled a few feathers among the hardcore community. They wanted a serious challenge, FromSoftware answered…
The Verge has issued copyright strikes against several YouTubers who criticized their now infamous PC building video. Both Rich from ReviewTechUSA and Kyle from BitWit saw their copyright strikes on their channel after they posted videos critical of the build. Both creators argued that their respective videos fall under fair use, as they were using…
People have been talking about the next big video game crash for, oh… at least since I’ve been running this site. It seems gamers are eager engage in a little schadenfreude after all the idiotic stunts the industry has pulled over the years. The thing is, the crash might not be just over the horizon…
Epic Games announced they would be opening up a new storefront on PC to compete with the likes of Steam. I haven’t really been following it too closely, being busy with the holidays, but the response among the gaming community has certainly been interesting. Epic’s main selling point is a generous revenue sharing agreement with…
Fallout 76’s release has not gone as smoothly as anyone would have liked, which may be the understatement of the year. According to players, the game is a godawful mess. It’s perhaps the buggiest release Bethesda has put out so far, which is saying something for a studio with a long track record of buggy…
Over the past two decades, China has become an economic power house thanks to its rising middle class. For western companies, this has meant a fresh, new, and lucrative, market for mass media entertainment. Video games are of course no exception, and it seems that catering to the Chinese is having a profound impact on…
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…
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…
If you’re into PC gaming, you’ve probably seen the infamous video by now. Garbage tier website The Verge attempted, key word being “attempted”, to show you how to build your own custom $2,000 gaming PC. The end result was sloppy mess even by beginners’ standards. The power supply was installed backwards, blocking its cooling intake….
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…