17 posts tagged ‘gaming’
YouTube launches more than 30 ‘Playables’ mini-games for Premium users
TechCrunch,
YouTube is expanding its games ambition by rolling out access to a set of online games for Premium users after first testing them with select users back in September. The Google-owned company has started notifying Premium users that they can start trying out more than 30 mini-games. Users can play the games instantly and don’t […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Watch a real firearms historian tear apart video game guns
Boing Boing,
The unconscionably huge Modern Warfare 3 naturally features more guns than you can shake a stick at. It's not the story or gameplay these guns are attached to that weapons expert and Royal Armouries museum curator Jonathan Ferguson is concerned with, though- it's the guns themselves. — Read the rest
The Last of Us: Part II will be remastered only three years after release
Three things are certain in this world: death, taxes and Naughty Dog endlessly remastering and remaking The Last of Us. This time around, it's a PS5-only remaster of 2020's controversial The Last of Us: Part II, which created a cast of grounded and well-rounded characters and then asked you to graphically murder them all. — Read the rest
Rooms, an interactive 3D space designer and ‘cozy game,’ arrives on the App Store
Cozy game, interior decorating app, learn-to-code primer or something in between, the interactive, 3D spaces builder known as Rooms has made its way to the App Store. The startup, which earlier raised $10 million in seed funding led by a16z, offers a way to design 3D spaces — its “rooms” — that are filled with […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Fallout: New Vegas fan celebration still going strong a decade later
Ask most any fan of the much-lauded Fallout games, and they'll swear up and down that 2010's Fallout: New Vegas still represents the pinnacle of the series. Whatever the objective ranking of Fallout games really is, New Vegas fans are everywhere, and the success of the recent Fallout Fan Celebration in Goodsprings, Nevada—the real-world small town you groggily awaken in at the beginning of New Vegas—is proof that they're not going anywhere anytime soon. — Read the rest
Starfield gets passed up for GOTY, fans are angry
First off, go vote in the official The Game Awards poll if you haven't already. Second off, you may have noticed that Starfield, the game everybody was convinced would cure their leprosy, is conspicuously not on the Game of the Year list. — Read the rest
Amazon Games will close its Crown channel on Twitch and cut 180 jobs
Amazon announced another cluster of layoffs this week along with plans to discontinue the Crown channel, a flashy Amazon-run Twitch channel that featured television-like programming. Amazon will also shutter its Game Growth group, which helped creators in the gaming world market themselves. In a letter to staff, Amazon Games VP Christoph Hartmann characterized the decision […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Wonka Mods Xbox Controller in His Image
Vulture,
Inspired by Timothée Chalamet’s YouTube modding days, probably.