Enlarge (credit: The_Grim_Sleeper) Bandai Namco, publisher of the Dark Souls role-playing game series, has taken down its player-versus-player servers while it investigates reports of a serious vulnerability that allows players to execute malicious code on the PCs of fellow players. Word of the critical remote-code-execution flaw emerged over the weekend in Reddit threads here and […]
Enlarge / Returning champion Aleksander Kubica successful defended his title and won the second annual quantum chess tournament during last week’s Q2B conference on quantum computing. (credit: lucadp/Getty Images) Returning champion Aleksander Kubica successful defended his title and won the second annual quantum chess tournament during last week’s Q2B conference on quantum computing. The tournament […]
$34.99 for Centipede on the Atari 2600 might sound cheap, but that 1983 price is the equivalent of roughly $90 today. [credit: Retro Waste ] When I was a kid, buying video games was an incredibly stressful process. In the late ’80s, I was too young to buy magazines to find out what games deserved […]
ESPN got catfished by a fake high school in Ohio. That sounds like the plot to an Adam Sandler movie, but it happened in real life. On Sunday, ESPN aired a Canton, Ohio, matchup between IMG Academy, one of the nation’s top high school football programs, and Bishop Sycamore. It was a seemingly normal matchup. […]
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Enlarge / Just some of the characters that don’t star in games anymore, according to Roblox. Roblox, the massively valued user-created gaming platform, has removed any mention of “games” from its user interface. It’s a seemingly small semantic change that nonetheless could have some major implications in the ongoing Epic Games v. Apple trial. The […]
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From the front, there’s little to distinguish this box from the millions of others Nintendo has produced for Super Mario Bros. For a while now, we’ve watched as early sealed copies of Super Mario Bros. have commanded six-figure prices at auction, starting with a $100,000 copy sold in 2019 and continuing through a $140,000 sale […]
Enlarge / A screenshot from Steam Link for macOS. (credit: Valve) Valve has launched a standalone app for Steam Link on Apple’s macOS App Store, adding a new option for Mac users who want to play games on machines that are often labeled as poor choices for gaming. Steam Link allows users to stream games […]
JoJo Siwa is doing her best to clean up the mess that is JoJo’s Juice. The 17-year-old YouTube star took to Instagram and TikTok on Monday to address the backlash over the controversial Nickelodeon board game that bears her name. In a selfie-style recording, the Dance Moms alum explained how the children’s game, cutely titled […]