Mortal Kombat review – schlock video game adaptation packs a small punch | Action and adventure films | The Guardian
A silly and dated new attempt to transport the classic fighting game to the big screen is a late-night drunk watch at best
Trans streamers are creating the visibility Twitch won’t give them
An important tool.
Why today feels like a quiet turning point for video games - Polygon
The makers and crafters who work live on Twitch
Twitch’s Makers & Crafting category is a warm, welcoming place.
The joy of fake sports
Despite being terrible at sports, I have been a sports fan my whole life. And for most of that time, I have wondered what it is about sports that makes them so appealing to so many people. At the h…
Twitch releases first ever Transparency Report — without much transparency
From timeouts to bans, Twitch’s Transparency Report shows how aggressive its moderation is getting. But users still have plenty of unanswered questions.
Microsoft starts testing Edge Chromium browser on Xbox
Support for the legacy version of Edge is ending soon
Drop everything you're doing and play some 'Blaseball'
Forget movies - games have much more in common with theatre • Eurogamer.net
[FKPXLS] The Illusions of Free-to-Play - Fakepixels
From freemium products to open-source projects to marketplaces to UGC platforms, free-to-play games are already everywhere.
The PS5’s ultimate easter egg is 40,000 PlayStation symbols you can feel - The Verge
Dark Souls: The Mystery of the Dragons and why Gwyn killed them | by Ununtrium | Jan, 2021 | Medium
The Ringed City, while a beautiful way to conclude Dark Souls, mostly left us with nothing but questions. As time went on, more and more…
A brief chat with Storymodebae - The Verge
It all started three years ago — with YouTube
The best games of 2020
Not a bad year for games.
How Discord (somewhat accidentally) invented the future of the internet
Discord's founders just wanted to create a way to talk to their gamer friends. They created something much bigger.
2020 was the year everyone streamed
Streaming is part of our current and future, so here’s where the services rank.
Sony is pulling Cyberpunk 2077 from the PlayStation Store and offering full refunds
The PlayStation version of the game has been riddled with bugs.
i'm gonna try to explain cyberpunk - BNet
emphasis on 'try'
Cyberpunkland: A full-service dystopia simulator
A city management game.
Cyberpunk 2077 review: huge, ambitious, and safe - The Verge
It’s a game that’s often fun and rarely surprising.
Tomorrow: Faradays and frame rates on Apple Podcasts
Show Tomorrow, Ep Faradays and frame rates - Dec 6, 2020
The hidden world of Monopoly and its anti-capitalist roots
Inside the spectacular startup failure of Oomba - The Verge
Strip clubs, board games, sugar babies, an office coup — and a whole lot of money
A Sense of Community: From Newgrounds to MLKSHK - The History of the Web
The Legend of GayBlade - Internet Archive Blogs
The recently released video game documentary High Score includes a sequence in the third episode about a game called GayBlade. GayBlade is one of the first commercially-sold LGTBQ-themed video games, a role-playing romp for Windows and Macintosh occasionally referred to as “Dungeons and Drag Queens”. Once thought to have been lost, the game’s software was […]