Discord is pretty much the communications platform for gamers these days. Text, voice, video, shared screens, specialized servers: Discord does it all. A side effect of that ubiquity, according to a report released earlier this month by Check Point Research (via TechRadar), is that Discord server invites are now an attack vector that online scumbags…
We’ve certainly heard a lot about that famous platformer the Great Giana Sisters from 1987, especially as it came back to the Amiga as a Giana Special Edition by Reimagine Games and then of course the Great Giana-Sisters Construction-Set, whereby you can create your own levels. But if you’re looking for more Giana Sister retro…
Nvidia’s penchant for redesigning its GPUs to get around US export restrictions has seemingly been directly called out by the US Commerce Secretary, with a warning that when such redesigns are created “I’m going to control it the very next day.” Since 2022, US chip sanctions have continued to make life somewhat difficult for manufacturers…
We’ve seen it happen plenty in Hollywood: two movies released at almost the same time about the same thing. Armageddon and Deep Impact in 1998, The Prestige and The Illusionist in 2006, Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down in 2013, just to name a few. Games aren’t immune to this trend either, I guess:…
“He gathered around thirty consumers to test the game […] and they all crashed.”. In a new interview with PlayStationInside, the former PlayStation president Shuhei Yoshida has shared a story, in which he claims to have “partly saved” the original Gran Turismo from failure by convincing its developers to tone down the handling of the…
There’s been a deep, unfortunate friction between voice actors and videogame studios, recently—the looming spectre of AI hangs large over everything, with some bigwigs salivating at the idea of getting infinite performances out of people without actually paying them. That is, despite the fact that—aside from efforts so far mostly being bland as all hell,…
I’ve been looking around the past few days for the RTX 5070 Ti, and to my surprise, you can find this graphics card on the shelves and ready to buy. That might not be the glowing review it sounds like, as this card left a lot to be desired in our first experiences with it…
Ready to rumble. A new fan-made prototype controller has been developed which adds force feedback to Sonic the Hedgehog 2’s Spin Dash mechanic. Created by Dr_BrownBR and posted on Reddit (and subsequently spotted by Sonic City), the pad has a motor which rumbles into life whenever the player is charging up Sonic’s iconic move. Read…
“avoid purchasing or using circumvention devices”. Nintendo is celebrating a court case victory in the Netherlands that says the sale of “devices designed to circumvent Nintendo’s security measures” is unlawful. Specifically referencing cards such as the MIG Switch Card, the case heard at The Hague District Court (Rechtbank Den Haag) involved a complaint against an…
Final Fantasy 14’s North American servers have been hammered by DDoS attacks since the release of Patch 7.4—I’d know, I play on them—which has players starting to grind their teeth in frustration. Especially given the release of the latest Savage (high-difficulty) raid tier, and the race to world first that buoys it. Take a look…