Palworld is a new video game where players can capture knockoff Pokémon and put them to work in a factory manufacturing AR-15s. It sold 5 million copies in 3 days. Palworld is made by a company called Pocketpair, not Nintendo, and it’s not an officially licensed Pokémon game. But that may be hard to tell […]
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The Righteous 13-Year-Old Whiz Who Beat Tetris Dedicated His Triumph To His Recently Deceased Dad
Willis Gibson made video game history this week as the 13-year-old became the first person to win the NES version of Tetris in an awesome viral moment where his skills were so great that it literally broke the game. The feat has already reached mythical status, but get ready to bust out the tissues. In […]
Read MoreThe Best Gifts for Gamers (Besides a Girlfriend)
Do you see Takis in the cupboard? Mountain Dew in the fridge? You’ve got a gamer on your hands, chap. We’re not about stereotypes and clichés, but when it comes to gifts, we’ll take all the context clues we can get. Gamers are an interesting breed. Sitting for hours at a time, staring at a […]
Read More‘GTA VI’ Has Already Sparked a Bizarre Moral Panic Fit For Our Age
In every new generation, a Grand Theft Auto game is born, and a moral panic rises to meet it. So it is with Grand Theft Auto VI, the latest installment in the nearly 30-year-old franchise, which released its first trailer on Monday. As of this writing, the trailer has been viewed 74 million times on […]
Read MoreMod That Makes ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Less Gay Gets Nuked After Players Revolt
Nexus Mods has deleted a mod that allowed players to change the gender and voice of one of Baldur’s Gate 3’s most popular minor characters, making one of the game’s canon gay relationships heterosexual. The now-deleted mod altered the angelic Dame Aylin, turning her into a man. It even used AI to alter the voicelines […]
Read MoreThis Gameboy Lookalike Loaded With Games Is Now 20% Off for Cyber Monday
Lately, everyone I talk to is trying to spend less time attached to their phones and find a way to get un-glued to the dozens of time-sucking apps that pull them into an endless cycle of scrolling. Social media addiction is so brutal that even switching to TV or video games feels like a reprieve. […]
Read MoreHot Gift Alert: This $76 Gameboy Lookalike Comes With 5,000 Games
Lately, everyone I talk to is trying to spend less time attached to their phones and find a way to get un-glued to the dozens of time-sucking apps that pull them into an endless cycle of scrolling. Social media addiction is so brutal that even switching to TV or video games feels like a reprieve. […]
Read MoreMeta’s president of global affairs decrees that concerns over AI to be akin the ‘moral panic’ over video games in the 1980s
Even if you only give tech news a cursory glance each day, you can’t have missed the fact there’s a lot of concern about the growing use of AI and the demand for tighter regulations. Enter Nick Clegg, Meta’s el presidente of global affairs, to assure us it’s nothing to be worried about, claiming that […]
Read MoreHow Crushing Is Peter Parker’s Mortgage In ‘Spider-Man 2’? We Asked a Realtor
Spider-Man 2, the latest PlayStation 5 title to feature the superhero, is being praised for its realistic graphics. But the game has another, slightly more uncomfortable element of realism: Spider-Man is trapped in a mortgage he can never hope to pay off. We know, because we asked a realtor. What makes Peter Parker, and Spider-Man, […]
Read MoreMobile Game Studios With Billions of Downloads Boycott Unity Ads In Protest
The video game industry is in an uproar after Unity, an extremely popular tool for making games, announced it will begin charging developers a fee every time someone installs their game. Now, mobile studios with billions of downloads are striking back with a pledge to turn off ads that are a source of revenue for […]
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