This Homebrew NES Title Is Getting Its Own Mario Maker-Style Successor

PONG – by Eugenio Angueira

Pong! was my very first experience with Atari Home Pong released in 1975. Not only was I hooked on the game, but so was my dad, my uncle, and just about everyone in my family. It was easy to play, but the game really shined when we were playing against each other. Of course, that…

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Cloudflare mitigates yet another record-breaking DDoS attack—which, at 22.2 Tbps, makes it nearly twice as big as the last hyper-volumetric attack

Seems like it was only the other week I was writing about Cloudflare throwing up its shields against a record-breaking DDoS attack—because it was. Yup, an attack pelting the servers with 11.5 Tbps (terabits per second) of data in less than a minute is more than enough to make me break out in a sweat….

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Vermintide’s developers only realized they were wading into a cursed subgenre after they started making a first-person melee game: ‘I was so scared’

Look, I love Dark Messiah of Might & Magic, but there have been a lot more videogames where first-person melee combat kind of sucks than ones where it’s as fun as kicking an orc off a cliff in Dark Messiah was. There’s a reason we all play Skyrim as stealth archers. When Fatshark was first…

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