by Arden Terry | Apr 5, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
Loot boxes are not a popular feature in the gaming community and they’ve even been accused of being a form of illegal gambling. The loot box mechanic has been a nuisance for many years, but now it feels like game developers are starting to take notice of the...
by Charles Rathbone | Apr 3, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
Controversial YouTuber Markus “Count Dankula” Meechan was recently found guilty of a hate crime for a 2016 video that featured his girlfriend's pug making various Nazi Salutes. The ruling, handed down by a UK court, found that Count Dankula had violated...
by Arden Terry | Apr 3, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
Last year was extremely profitable for one particular gaming company, Tencent. For the past few years, the enormous Chinese conglomerate has been buying up pieces of major video game developers and publishers from around the world. Currently Tencent has domain over a...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Apr 3, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
A lot of players have begun to question the player count of League of Legends, but this is a difficult thing to peg down. Some speculation has come from streamers, who frequently vent by blaming the game or developers, and some has come from veteran players upset at...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Apr 3, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
Niantic may have exploded into the mobile market, but after the first year, it has been mostly downhill for them. Their player count has dwindled considerably – by more than 90% - and players continue to be unhappy with recent updates which ignore many of the larger...
by Jordan Love | Apr 2, 2018 | Livestreaming, News, News Section, Videogames
It’s been a busy couple days for Twitch. First, it was revealed that they laid off several employees (including at least one high-profile one) in a bid to reprioritize other departments. At the same time, people were asking if their most popular streamer, Ninja, would...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Mar 30, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
Most gamers above the age of 18 can remember nickel and diming their old titles to GameStop in the hopes of earning enough for a new game. It’s hard to say if these are fond memories so much as they are memories. Even after 19 years, and after closing 150 stores last...
by Jordan Love | Mar 29, 2018 | Livestreaming, News, News Section, Videogames
Ninja may or may not have used the n-word while rapping a Logic song during a recent streaming session with Matthew Haag (Nadeshot). Ninja characterizes his language as a misunderstanding and suggests that he was merely "tongue-tied" and fumbled the lyrics. Though it...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Mar 29, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
Something funny has been happening on Twitch. First it was Ninja’s insane rise to popularity, growing his average users from 10k to over 100k in just 3 months. Next, there was the realization from numerous streamers that they were getting Twitch Prime subscriptions...
by Jordan Love | Mar 28, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
The PS Plus and Xbox Live free games for April have been announced and finally Xbox owners have a reason to celebrate. March was a month of exaltation for PlayStation owners as they feasted on Bloodborne, Ratchet & Clank and more, all while Xbox owners tried to...
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