Do Popular Video Games Reflect What Society Is Scared Of?
Em explores whether or not games, especially popular ones, reflect the cultural zeitgeist and explore what we, as a society, are actually afraid of. Go...
Action MMO Brawler Kritika: Zero Will Launch Globally on January 25th
Kritika: Zero is an upcoming action MMO released through Valofe. It is the latest in the Kritika series, following the most recent, Kritika Global. The...
LG shows off audiophile vacuum tube DukeBox in CES teaser — combining 1950’s tech with a modern transparent OLED
LG teased its vacuum tube ‘DukeBox’ speaker system, which combines a modern transparent OLED panel with old audiophile tech — no word on potential pricing, though we’re sure Duke Nukem wants one.
This Raspberry Pi air hockey table also plays Doom
Downing from Downing’s Basement has created an air hockey table from scratch that uses two Raspberry Pi boards to play air hockey and Doom!
Choose My Adventure: Villagers & Heroes starts off feeling like a different game
I admit that it’s been a very long time since I had played Villagers & Heroes – since 2020, to be exact – but considering...
British police open investigation into an in-game sexual assault in a virtual reality metaverse
Virtual reality games are intensely immersive, putting their players into their worlds and surrounding them in the experience rather convincingly. Unfortunately, that immersion has been...
Dutch government bans even simpler chipmaking tools from export to China — DUV lithography tools now get the axe
ASML can no longer sell its Twinscan NXT:2050i and NXT:2100i DUV lithography systems to Chinese clients. The impact isn’t expected to be significant, given existing restrictions.
Bitcoin Tops $45K For First Time In 21 Months, Is Cryptocurrency Making A Comeback?
Since the early May 2022 cryptocurrency crash, cryptocurrency, in general, has seemingly been in the dumps. However, Bitcoin has seen impressive growth over the course of 2023. It has seen gains of 173% to crest over $45,000, marking a 21-month record high. This comes as optimism for exchange-traded Bitcoin swells, but what could this mean
Exercise-inspiring WalkScape heads to closed beta in January
If your big resolution for 2024 is to get moving and get healthy, then there’s one game that could be your best friend on this...
AMD’s upcoming integrated graphics matches seven years old GTX 1060 in Geekbench 6 — Ryzen 5 8600G iGPU benchmarks leak
AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 5 8600G APU was tested in two Geekbench 6 GPU benchmarks, showing similar performance to Nvidia’s seven years old GTX 1060.