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Paypigs revolt after glitch reveals “cute goddess”‘ real face — and age "Her Royal Highness" Qiao Biluo's false online representation tricked Chinese men out of oodles of cash, and now they're trying to charge it back.
Chinese paypigs are revolting after a popular female vlogger/livestreamer got tripped up by a glitch and fans learned her beauty filter had done more than merely enhancing existing qualities. The glitch happened on a July 25 DouYu stream, a Chinese game-centric livestreaming platform. The livestreamer, who goes by “Her Royal Highness Qiao Biluo” (乔碧罗殿下) to her 135,000 adoring fans, had covered her face with an anime picture while chatting with a cohost. At some point the computer dropped the superimposed picture and everyone was shocked to see her real face. Watch this video on YouTube Turns out Her Royal Highness – the “cute goddess” – is actually a 58 year…
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A conspiracy of silence: How NDAs are harming the games industry Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) have long been a fact of doing business in video games - but their enforcement can have wide-ranging, negative effects.
“You will suffer beyond imagination!” WoW Classic player fights girlfriend while streaming Annoy this WoW nerd and you will suffer beyond imagination, you will see the punishment.
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Obsidian doesn’t want Outer Worlds to be a ‘politically-charged game’ The freshmaker.
Leonard Boyarsky, the creative director of Obsidian Entertainment’s upcoming RPG, The Outer Worlds, says that the game will not shove politics down your throat. The creator, who is responsible for the original Fallout, Arcanum, and Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines, says he intends to bring the same amount of depth to the science fiction-based setting as his previous works. Set in a cyberpunk-inspired future where mega-corporations colonize the outer regions of space, the game’s commentary does not focus entirely on the “evils” or depredations of capitalism, and will instead offer nuance. Boyarsky says that the studio is “very careful” to not “lecture” players with its themes. Speaking to Video Games Chronicle,…
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The Destiny clan that saved a family Think of the average bunch of guys in an online clan and the word 'heart-warming' doesn't usually spring to mind. But then most clans aren't the Dads Of Destiny, a 30,000 strong group bound by two common themes: parenthood, and not being a dick.
How ‘Untitled Goose Game’ went from meme sensation to real game House House partner Stuart Gillespie-Cook went into the company’s Slack channel in August of 2016, posted a picture of a goose and wrote “Let’s make a game about this.”
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Stranger Things portals have started appearing in Fortnite Hide your credit cards, moms and dads of the world.
With this 4th of July marking the release of a new season of Stranger Things, alongside it came a lot of marketing tie-ins, including with massively popular video game Fortnite. The Fortnite–Stranger Things cross-over is without an exclusive limited time game mode associated with previous Fortnite promotions such as for Avengers End Game, John Wick, and Nike Air Jordan, but they instead added lots of Stranger Things easter eggs such as “the upside down” portals, and the Scoops Ahoy Ice Cream Parlor. Alongside the in-game easter eggs came new Stranger Things skins which include “Chief Hopper” for 1,500 V-bucks, “Demogorgon” for 1,200 V-bucks, and weapon wrap “Vines” which goes for…
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5 great all time classic games you can play online
In every modern adult lives a child who enjoyed playing arcade games and/or re-discovering early gaming consoles. True, the games we enjoyed as kids are in no way like the ones we have now (even though most are only 20 years apart), but the classics stayed with us for a reason. In fact, there are several old games that were so powerful in their time (remember Mario?), that thousands of game developers still try to replicate them today. While some don’t have the same success with the younger generations, adults surely love reliving parts of their childhood. So if you’re looking for a bit of gaming magic from the old…
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10 reasons Alien: Isolation is the greatest survival horror game ever made I really loved about this game. But I’m writing this with all the lights in my house on.
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Twitch now permabanning users for referring to World of Warcraft’s ‘naga’ characters Reptilian-azerothians?
Twitch has permabanned a whole slew of users for referring to World of Warcraft’s snake-like monster race called nagas. Twitch, which apparently has never heard of the world’s most popular MMO despite it being constantly streamed to high view counts, believes ‘naga’ is a secret conspiracy code word referring to black people. The situation is believed to have started with a (now deleted) clip of Savix_Tv, in which he says he “shot that Naga.” The context was following – We were hosting a streamer called Savix, and we were going to spam "Shot that nagas PogYou", and the reason behind that is because we referred to a clip of Savix…
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10 biggest influences on video game history Marquee moments that have helped gaming get to where it is today, and laid the groundwork for what we'll hear about in the future.
Forking hell: a decade of Devolver Digital "There was and is no ‘exit strategy' for us, nor for the vast majority of the developers we work with."
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The 11 hardest survival simulators Casuals, stay away. These are the survival games that make staying alive difficult.
In a world careening towards ecological apocalypse, survival games are obviously hitting a nerve in the zeitgeist, and developers are responding by making them increasingly tougher to prepare us. Here are my picks for the 11 titles on the market that make staying alive the most difficult. Survisland Watch this video on YouTube One of the most popular settings for survival games is the deserted island – a natural barrier of impassable water gives the game map a logical border, and islands can include multiple distinct biomes for a variety of foraging experiences and environmental challenges. 2018’s Survisland boasts procedurally generated maps, so your castaway existence is different each time you…
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The lost Call of Duty mode worth saving from extinction 50,000 people used to play here. Now it's a ghost town.
When nightmare mode isn’t enough: 5 ways to add difficulty to your game If you haven't sent a controller hurtling through the air straight into the middle of your flat screen TV, you aren't being challenged enough.
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Making yourself at home in Morrowind A reminiscence about grand adventures in real estate.
Many moons ago, when I was still a low-level character and in the youth of my virtual adventuring, I made myself at home in the nooks and crannies of Vvardenfell. Upon my arrival to Balmora, I sent some unlucky shopkeep shuffling off this mortal coil and claimed his house for myself (I could still pinpoint its exact location after almost 17 years). The clueless inhabitants never got wise to my heinous crime, and I’d continue to stuff the humble dwelling with my ill-gotten gains for many hours. When I eventually found out that whatever faction you join will build you a private residence late in the game, my still-growing brain…
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Video game research shows you’re past your peak already at 25 Scientists have been using video games to study reaction speeds as people age and have discovered that it all starts to fall apart at 24.
The largest ever MMO battle—3000 players!—was an accident Someone forgot to pay rent, resulting in a space battle involving over 3000 players and $300k worth of the game's currency gone forever.
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Microsoft bans Notch from Minecraft anniversary events due to “comments and opinions” Twitter bluehairs and corporate interests sitting in a tree...
As Minecraft celebrates its 10th anniversary, Microsoft has announced that the game’s creator, Markus Persson (Notch), will not be able to take part in the events, and it’s all due to his “comments and opinions” on Twitter. “His comments and opinions do not reflect those of Microsoft or Mojang and are nor representative of Minecraft,” said a Microsoft spokesperson to Variety, which broke the news this week. The spokesperson was also keen to inform the publication that Notch hasn’t been involved with Minecraft since he sold the studio and rights to the game in 2014. Notch hasn’t been one to back down from having an opinion, and it’s earned him…
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‘Adventure Mario’: the making of The Legend of Zelda We’re going back to the mid-80s to look at the creation of one of gaming's longest-running and most-loved series.
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The making of Firewatch The story behind one of 2016's most unusual, human and thought-provoking games.
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Mortal Kombat 11’s ultimate bad guy is Trump MK11 gone corporate woke features covered up females, Wakanda, and Trump as the bad guy.
Mortal Kombat is the video game that triggered Congress for its display of gratuitous violence and sexy outfits, that made every “I’d like to speak to your manager” soccer mom literally shake in anger in the mid ‘90s, and it’s now trying to become every bit as tame as the frumps want it to be. The latest title in NetherRealm’s classic series of ultraviolent fighting games comes out this week, and it has been diagnosed with a bad case of corporate wokeness. Skin is for men The art director of Mortal Kombat 11, Steve Beran, has bluntly stated that the outfits women wear in the game were purposely toned down…
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We are producing way too many (good) video games There more good games out there than ever before, and they're getting longer. Let's look at the numbers.
The 24-year feud that has dogged Star Citizen The story of two men, several ambitious space games, and an ongoing feud that has rocked a community of over a million fans.
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Apex Legends’ Twitch numbers down 75% in just one month Off a cliff.
Apex Legends, the game that looked like the biggest contender against Fortnite and the only chance to dethrone the reigning champion of online games, has seen its numbers on Twitch dip by 75% in just one month since it came out. At this rate it can only get worse unless Respawn steps things up a notch or ten. Declining viewership of new games isn’t anything out of the ordinary, but many were expecting Apex Legends, which surged in popularity following its release (following little to no anticipation leading up to it), to break the mold and usurp Epic Games’ popular title. A new report from StreamElements shows that at its…
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The game dev who cried wolf Indie developers feel it’s hard to get noticed, but trying to stir up fake scandal sets a terrible precedent.
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