Games Workshop hits the panic button, temporarily shuts down Warhammer site after scalpers descend upon it with 'abominable intelligence' and bots

Games Workshop hits the panic button, temporarily shuts down Warhammer site after scalpers descend upon it with ‘abominable intelligence’ and bots

Scalpers are a menace in a lot of hobbies, not just in the realm of gaming hardware and paraphernalia. Still, they’ve been especially bad here in recent years. Flipping phantom graphics cards, snapping up special editions, and ruining cute exhibits meant for children. Games Workshop, the company behind Warhammer and Warhammer 40k, are certainly no…

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Inside the astonishing development of 1999’s The Wheel of Time FPS: ‘The fact that we shipped anything at all is kind of a miracle’

Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the…

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Despite the negativity, Marathon was one of last month’s best-selling games, though there’s a catch

Marathon was the fourth best-selling game (by revenue) in the US when it released in March, and the sixth best so far this year, according to market performance analyst firm Circana. That’s quite the surprising statistic given the vitriol surrounding its very existence and the constant doom-watching of its Steam Charts. It’s even more impressive…

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Palworld is the Pokémon this sinful world deserves

Let’s be honest, if Pokémon were real today, we’d have Pikachu power stations, Poliwraths flushing fatbergs from our sewers, Piplups cleaning crime scenes, and a rentable Chansey subscription service from healthcare providers. Maybe I’m just being cynical, but even the premise the games present—that we’d primarily just make them fight each other for sport—seems optimistic,…

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