Fake messages asking for cryptocurrency to ensure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz have been sent to multiple ships and shipping companies. The Greek maritime risk management ‌firm MARISKS issued the warning, which was first reported on by Reuters, saying that unknown scammers, claiming to represent the Iranian authorities, had sent various messages demanding…

Vampire Crawlers may be in a completely different genre than Vampire Survivors, but the progression path still has that signature Survivors DNA. With the right upgrades, you can become an unstoppable force of nature that shreds enemies like paper. Picking the wrong upgrades can seriously slow you down in the early stages of Vampire Crawlers,…

After a year of leaks and horsing around that Ubisoft probably didn’t find nearly as funny as I did, Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced was finally given the official curtain-lifting today. The reveal of “gaming’s worst-kept secret” was pretty much what we expected—it’s a remake of Black Flag—but hidden in Ubisoft’s big announcement roundup is…

My complaints about the generative AI bubble, and the tech industry in general, can often be reduced to the question ‘What are we even doing here?’ Case in point, one of the things Google thinks will save the games industry is the ability to predict when someone is about to stop playing a game so…