Author: [email protected] (Ted Litchfield)
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Warner Bros. has decided not to take its ball and go home with Adult Swim Games, instead returning control to their original developers
Remember how Warner Bros. was fixing to permanently send Adult Swim Games’ entire catalogue of indies to the Shadow Realm because it would have been too much of a pain to keep processing the devs’ royalty checks? Well it looks like that fate’s been averted, with the games remaining up on Steam and their creators…
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Nothing makes sense anymore: They’re making Funko Pops out of the cult classic 2004 Obsidian RPG, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords
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I try not to be a Funko Pop hater guy. It’s always struck me as one of those “edgy” opinions that’s actually quite pedestrian—”Oh please, tell me more about which nontraditional picks you actually consider to be Christmas Movies.” Most of the time, I endeavor to have no opinion either way on the ubiquitous vinyl…
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An Arrowhead community manager was ‘almost, but not quite’ fired for encouraging Helldivers 2 review bombing and refunds
The Helldivers 2 community can finally beat its swords into plowshares following Sony’s capitulation on a controversial PlayStation Network sign in requirement, but somebody almost lost their job over the debacle. No, I’m not talking about whoever at Sony could have seen this coming and headed off the unnecessary crisis, I’m talking about one of…
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Cybersecurity researchers find that fake USPS phishing sites account for at least as much internet traffic as the Postal Service itself
A recent paper by cybersecurity-focused firm Akamai has found that queries to suspicious domains impersonating the US Postal Service accounted for nearly as much internet traffic as those to the actual USPS in a four month span between 2023 and ’24. The firm’s conservative criteria for avoiding false positives, meanwhile, might mean that traffic to…
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Sony doubles down, removing Helldivers 2 from sale in 177 countries and territories that can’t access PSN while Arrowhead CEO says ‘I don’t have the final say’
Even as members of Helldivers studio Arrowhead Games say that discussions around Sony’s controversial PlayStation Network sign in requirement for Helldivers 2 on PC are still ongoing, it looks like the publisher is doubling down on the move, halting sales of the game in countries where it doesn’t offer the service. In theory, Helldivers 2…
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With over 84 thousand negative Helldivers 2 Steam reviews in two days, developer Arrowhead seems to be grappling with Sony over its controversial PSN sign-in requirement
The storm over Helldivers 2 introducing a PlayStation Network sign-in requirement doesn’t show any signs of slowing down, with the game sitting at a little over 84,000 negative Steam reviews over the past two days at the time of writing. Developer Arrowhead Studios, however, doesn’t seem particularly enthused about the requirement either. In addition to…
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Eyeing the Helldivers 2 backlash with a nervous flop sweat, Sucker Punch assures us that Ghost of Tsushima won’t need a PSN login for single player
PlayStation 5 samurai slice ’em up Ghost of Tsushima is finally coming to PC on May 16, and with all the sturm and drang around Sony stablemate Helldivers 2 introducing a PSN login requirement, developer Sucker Punch would like to remind us that the mostly single player Ghost of Tsushima will mostly not require that.…
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Insanely ambitious Elder Scrolls remake Skyblivion shows off another reason it’s not releasing until 2025: refreshed dungeons with unique appearances for each region
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Every time the volunteer team behind Skyblivion, a fan-made remake of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, comes out with a new dev update, I make the same mistake. I figure, “I know what they’re all about, I’ve played Oblivion for a million hours, nothing here can surprise me.” Well color me surprised, the team’s latest…
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Even a boomer shooter freak like me can’t keep up with them all anymore, but this one where you run around on the ceiling and shoot ray guns at Cthulhu guys woke me from a retro FPS stupor
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After an incredible demo showing nearly two years ago, gravity defying raygun gothic shooter They Came From Dimension X is back with a road to release, and that road goes through Kickstarter. The devs behind the standout FPS are looking to raise $30k by the end of the month, and a $15 donation will net…
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Elden Ring lead Hidetaka Miyazaki won’t say how long the DLC is since everyone thinks he lowballed the main game: ‘Everyone told me I was lying and that’s not remotely enough time!’
FromSoftware big shot and Elden Ring director Hidetaka Miyazaki has delivered some more cryptic Shadow of the Erdtree details in a recent interview shared to the Chinese social network Zhihu. The big takeaways for my money are that this thing is going to be big, and that Elden lore freak favorite St. Trina will make…