Buying someone else a Steam game got a lot easier today. You no longer have to be Steam friends with the person to whom you’re sending a gift, and don’t even need a Steam account. You can also select gifts directly from a shared wishlist. Here are today’s Steam gifting changes, in short: It’s now…
A cheating scandal has erupted in the World of Warcraft community after a Blizzard developer was caught using special game master (GM) abilities to kill two bosses for some friends. The GM seemingly didn’t realize that one of the players was recording combat logs of the whole thing. Late on Tuesday, Reddit user Acrobatic_Pianist688 posted…
Earlier this month, indie political satirist game dev Molleindustria—pseudonym of Paolo Pedercini, who created games like Democratic Socialism Simulator and New York Times Simulator—announced that he was moving up the release of his latest game. Despite having previously promised to launch the game on the same day as GTA 6 “in order to humiliate Rockstar…
Lee Sang-hyeok, better known to his fans as Faker, is perhaps the most enduring and successful esports pro of all time, with—among a great many other honors—a record six League of Legends world championships to his name stretching back to 2013. When he re-signed with T1 in 2022, the team called him the “Unkillable Demon…
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Nothing tests a collector’s patience quite like a cabinet that refuses to boot. The screen stays black, the coin mechanism clicks uselessly, and the cabinet sits there like an expensive piece of furniture rather than the working artifact it once was. Bringing these machines back from the dead isn’t magic — it’s methodical diagnosis paired…
Long before home consoles dominated living rooms, arcades were the proving ground for gaming’s most daring ideas. Cabinets built between the late 1970s and the mid-1990s often pushed hardware limits that home systems simply couldn’t match. Many of these machines never made the leap to consoles, yet their design fingerprints are still visible in modern…
Not to fully transform into the Pepe Silvia meme pointing at a wall of “evidence” but I’m convinced Blizzard is gearing up to announce something StarCraft-related at BlizzCon this year. The first reliable clue came from Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier’s 2024 book on Blizzard’s history where he said the studio was “incubating” a StarCraft shooter…
As it continues to try smoothing the waters churned up by the recent layoff of thousands of people, Xbox has followed up last week’s big Fallout infodump with the launch of a new “Backward Compatibility on PC” program that will bring old-time Xbox games, previously exclusive to the platform, to PC and compatible handhelds for…
With Star Wars Zero Company, developer Bit Reactor aims to create a tactics RPG with characters and narrative at the forefront. It’s got proper, big-budget cutscenes, you can talk to your buddies, and you can customise and upgrade your squad. However, the developers have gone on record in a new Discord Q&A to say, no,…