17 posts tagged ‘gaming’
Gamers can’t fathom how 6x CEO Elon Musk found time to best Diablo IV
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On October 16 and November 20, Elon Musk tweeted videos of himself clearing the highest level of the Diablo IV video game in about 2 minutes. While Diablo IV has been out since mid-2023, the latest “season,” called The Pit, launched on October 7. Many asked: How did he find the time to do it […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
The Nintendo Switch 2 has leaked… again
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The Nintendo Switch 2 might just be the worst-kept secret in gaming right now. Although Nintendo has confirmed that it is coming and made broad statements on its capabilities, it's remained tight-lipped on anything else of substance… not that that has helped much. — Read the rest The post The Nintendo Switch 2 has leaked… again appeared first on Boing Boing.
AI-generated Super Smash Bros. player is an unhinged trash talker
If you've been around these parts for a minute, you likely know that one of my guilty pleasures is weird, unhinged Twitter accounts. The sheer level of commitment to the bit is one of the few things keeping me on that hellhole of a website, even though Bluesky is shaping up to be better in every way. — Read the rest The post AI-generated Super Smash Bros. player is an unhinged trash talker appeared first on Boing Boing.
We were inches away from the fabled Doom and Halo crossover
Doom Slayer. Master Chief. Two giant green guys in iconic suits of armor, best known for plowing through hordes of aliens with extreme prejudice (and yes, I'm counting Doom's demons as aliens here. Fight me). Fans of both series have been imagining them teaming up since their respective debuts, and thanks to Amazon's gaming-themed anthology Secret Level, it… almost happened. — Read the rest The post We were inches away from the fabled Doom and Halo crossover appeared first on Boing Boing.
Another GTA 6 leak, another tantalizing disappointment
Rockstar Games really needs to re-evaluate its security: another GTA 6 leak hit the internet. If you've been paying attention to the gaming industry, you might remember the biggest gaming leak of all time just a couple years ago, which revealed Grand Theft Auto 6 in painstaking detail long before the project was even officially announced. — Read the rest The post Another GTA 6 leak, another tantalizing disappointment appeared first on Boing Boing.
People are playing a new DOOM-themed CAPTCHA
CAPTCHA programs that are used to determine whether a site visitor is a person or a bot come in pretty standard formats. Think text distortion (where users type the characters they see in a box amid other squiggles); image recognition (you’re selecting, say, all the squares in a grid with a bicycle image); and checkbox […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
The regulation is coming from inside the house!
Google's losing the antitrust lawsuit concerning the Play Store brought by Epic Games is going to have far-reaching implications for the mobile app economy. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Temu was the most-downloaded iPhone app in the US in 2023
Temu, the Chinese e-commerce company whose app is now attracting longer engagement times than Amazon, is Apple’s most downloaded free app in the U.S. for 2023. The Cupertino-based tech giant today released an App Store feature that showcases the top iPhone apps of the year, free and paid, as measured by app installs — its […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.