Right after ‘saving’ Hytale from 7 years of development limbo, its new owner releases 16 minutes of ‘raw and broken’ gameplay footage to ‘break the curse once and for all’

Hytale, up until this point, has been one of gaming’s biggest messes. Announced back in 2018, Hytale looked like it was about to waltz in and start tidily eating Mojang’s lunch. Riot even saw promise in the studio, acquiring it in 2020. Seven years later, scope creep and an apparently ill-advised engine rewrite caused Riot…

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Cloudflare apologises for ‘the pain we caused the Internet’ and admits a file size error brought down large parts of the web yesterday, not a malicious cyberattack

Just about everybody who was online yesterday will have noticed something was wrong with ye olde internet. A major issue at network service provider Cloudflare brought down everything from and X and ChatGPT to order screens at McDonald’s restaurants. Now Cloudflare has posted a full explanation of the outage and it turns out the problem…

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This $150 controller from Honeycomb Aeronautical has not one, not two, not three, but four integrated Throttle Levers for the flight sim sickos

Personally, when I hear Honeycomb, I think of ice cream—and then the consequences my lactose intolerant-self would have to face were I to indulge. However, for flight sim fans, there’s only Honeycomb Aeronautical—and lucky for them, they’ve just dropped a brand new gamepad. The Echo Aviation Controller is specifically geared towards playing flight simulators on…

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