What a world we live in
I never thought those nights of madlibs with friends would actually cause a madlibpocalypse in news media: I hope someone files a bug report on our reality soon.
Category: News
Don’t pay Newegg for fast shipping
I recently wrote that I ordered a power supply from Newegg, and that I paid a little extra for it to arrive early. Unfortunately it hasn’t arrived yet, though I can’t say that I’m entirely surprised. Ever since Newegg was sold off to the Chinese market they just haven’t been …
The Blue Whale Challenge is a great Red Herring for banning video games
I read an article today about two children in Saudi Arabia committing suicide due to a game called “The Blue Whale Challenge”, and as a result their government banned 47 different games including The Witcher 3, Bayonetta 2, Okami, Life is Strange, etc etc. This sounds like quite the over-reaction …
The Republic of Chia
I just think it’s funny to hear of a country banning a letter of the alphabet because it’s a “subversive and intolerable character”. Now all I can think of is a campy superhero cartoon where N is public eNemy #1. :v:
GameStop needs to stop this
I’m glad I don’t work at a gamestop… This new policy they’re enforcing is total bullshit that makes both the customer and employee suffer greatly. The program, called “Circle of Life,” gives each GameStop store different percentage quotas for 1) pre-orders; 2) reward card subscriptions; 3) used game sales; and …
RIP Duckduckgo
Yahoo and Duckduckgo have partnered together. Our partnership with Yahoo helps us give you the best search experience possible. Of course, in accordance with our strict privacy policy, we do not share personal information with any partners, including Yahoo. To make this crystal clear, Yahoo has also published a privacy …
Valve speaks out about the Winter Sale breach
Some say that it took too long getting back to everyone about it, people like myself say they responded in Valve Time. 😛 Link. Dear Steam User, As you may know, for a brief period on December 25th, a configuration error resulted in some Steam users seeing incorrectly cached Steam …
In other news: Microsoft is still as clueless about PC Gaming as ever
Microsoft doesn’t have much in terms of games on their App store, but if anyone is contemplating buying either their version or the Steam version it’s pretty much a no brainer. You can buy Rise of the Tomb Raider from Steam, or you can buy it from Microsoft. The price …
If you have an Origin Account you might want to read this.
Tons of account names and passwords were leaked to Pastebin according to this source. At about 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, a gamer who has asked that his name be withheld, got a password reset notification for an old Skype account. A few moments later, there were five additional password reset …
More news on the microtransaction front
Yesterday I was reading my activity feed on Steam as I usually do when I’m not reading my RSS subscription to the internet, and found quite a few people complaining about Payday 2 joining the “Lets do micro transactions on top of DLC” club. I’m not entirely sure if it’s …