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China has launched an antitrust investigation into Nvidia over possible violations of the country’s anti-monopoly laws in connection with its 2020 acquisition of Israeli chip maker Mellanox Technologies. A Bloomberg report (via The Verge) says the Chinese government approved the $7 billion deal on the condition that Nvidia not discriminate against Chinese companies, and that…
Just two days after revealing Ballistic, an upcoming 5v5 round-based tactical FPS “experience” that sure as hell looks a lot like Counter-Strike, Fortnite is continuing its brazen campaign to become every other videogame all at once. Today, Epic announced Lego Fortnite Brick Life, a “social roleplay experience in the Lego Fortnite world.” Set in “an…
Open world dress up game Infinity Nikki has had a busy launch weekend. Aspiring stylists were jumping into Miraland while Infold Games was incessantly slinging Infinity Nikki codes for in-game currency to all those new players. Now, Infold has announced that Infinity Nikki has been downloaded over 10 million times worldwide so far. I’ve been…
Path of Exile 2 is in that early phase of a new ARPG where things are a little bit like the mathematical equivalent of the wild west. All those millions of early access players are running wild, smashing together every possible combination of combat and passive skills in an environment where the laws that undergird…
I was the first to turn my nose up at Delta Force when it was announced. The freshly released (it’s in open beta but if everyone can click your game on Steam and play it, it’s released) multiplayer FPS is cavorting in the skin of the legendary 90s tactical shooter franchise of the same name….
A suspect in the slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been identified by the New York Police Department as Luigi Magione, a co-founder of the University of Pennsylvania’s first video game development club. A LinkedIn account belonging to Mangione, who as reported by NBC was arrested earlier today, indicates that he also worked as…
Are you a fan of John Marston from Red Dead Redemption? Sure, we all are. But are you a real fan? Perhaps even an OnlyFan? What I’m trying to not-so cleverly announce is that Rob Wiethoff, the actor who voiced John Marston in Red Dead Redemption, has an OnlyFans page now. Hey, as Marston said…
Dauntless has launched on Steam, and smashed straight into a gigantic brick wall that says “Overwhelmingly negative.” The co-op hunting game, which has been available to play since August 2017 but is new to Steam, has over a few days accumulated nearly 1,000 negative reviews and they’re all about the major overhaul Dauntless received for…
CD Projekt Red has announced it’s not done with Cyberpunk 2077, because “the team still has some gas in the tank.” Which is exciting! Much less exciting is that this is basically the announcement of an announcement, with the developer holding fire until a livestream on the game’s fourth anniversary on December 10. CD Projekt’s…
It turns out that Geralt of Rivia, everyone’s favorite monster-hunter-for-fire, may not be in The Witcher 4 after all. Then again, he may be—the truth is, nobody outside of a presumably select few at CD Projekt really knows, and that includes voice actor Doug Cockle, who says he got “slapped” by the studio after revealing…