Month: October 2024

LinkedIn, the email spam service associated with a B2B social network, has made its move into gaming. Not with a LinkedIn-branded golf putting kit, which surely would’ve nailed the target audience: LinkedIn has started with three simple browser games that can be played daily and, here’s the kicker, track and share stats across networks. Yes, it’s looking to start some friendly rivalries in the executive seats.

The games are available on both desktop and mobile, and are called Crossclimb, Pinpoint, and Queens (thanks, The Verge). The major influences are Wordle and Sudoku. Crossclimb sees players first guess a word from a clue, then create “ladders” of words from that base by changing letters at a time. You then order these five words so only one letter is changing at a time, which unlocks two final words at the top and bottom… and yep I’ve pretty much lost interest too.

I didn’t like Crossclimb much, though you have to give it props for being on-brand. One of my clues for a word was “Small business ____ (Source of funding for some startups)”. The answer is of course “loan”.

Pinpoint’s a simpler word association game, where players are presented a …

Forget free delivery on all your, I don’t know, microSD cards and mass-produced pantaloons, the real benefit of Amazon Prime is the games the company hands out on its Prime Gaming page once a month. For anyone as hopelessly dedicated to ’90s RPGs as me, next month’s headline offering is a doozy: Prime subscribers can pick up Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition completely for free from March 2 through the end of the month.

This is, you might surmise from the name, the gussied-up 2012 re-release of the original Baldur’s Gate, which came out in 1998. Although it was controversial among fans for a while, it’s had a bunch of updates since its release, and I feel fairly confident saying it’s now the definitive way to play the old classic. In contrast to the ’90s version, it’s got a more intuitive UI, a raft of bugfixes, and will, praise be, run at modern resolutions without having to install mods.

Unhelpfully, Amazon hasn’t said what platform it’ll be for, but last month’s offering of Morrowind (you should really grab Morrowind while it’s available, by the way) was a DRM-free GOG version. Hopefully the same is true of BG:EE.

Steam tells me I have nearly 300 hours in the …

ใครจะไปคิดว่าเกม Palworld อยู่ดี ๆ จะปังปุริเย่ขึ้นมาได้ขนาดนี้ ซึ่งเกมดังกล่าวก็เป็นเกมที่ผู้เล่นจะได้ออกผจญภัยในโลกกว้าง พร้อมกับจับมอนสเตอร์ที่หน้าตาน่ารักมาใช้แรงงานภายในฐานทัพที่เราสามารถสร้างเองได้

แน่นอนว่าเกมนี้กลายเป็นเกมที่ได้รับความนิยมอย่างรวดเร็ว โดยล่าสุดทาง Takuro Mizobe ผู้สร้างเกม Palworld ได้ให้สัมภาษณ์กับทาง Bloomberg ไว้ มีประเด็นที่น่าสนใจก็คือในตอนนี้ทาง Pocketpair พอใจที่จะยังคงเป็นสตูดิโออิสระและรักษาความสัมพันธ์�…

Eddy Gordo เป็นตัวละครที่เหล่าแฟน ๆ TEKKEN รู้จักกันดีอยู่แล้ว โดยตัวละครนี้เป็นนักสู้สายฟ้าแลบที่มีท่วงท่าการโจมตีที่อ่านทางได้ยากมาก แถมในเกม TEKKEN 8 เขายิ่งโหดขึ้นไปอีก จนทำให้เพียงไม่กี่วันหลังจากเข้าสู่เกม เขาก็กลายเป็นหนึ่งในตัวละครที่ผู้เล่นเกลียดมากที่สุดคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง

ปุ่มเดียวก็เสียวได้ด้วย Eddy ใน TEKKEN 8

และด้วยสาเหตุนี้เองทำให้สตรีมเมอร์บน Twitch อย่าง jimmashima กำลังทดสอบดูว่า Eddy แย่จร�…

There are few artifacts of videogame culture that can teleport me to a specific time and place more powerfully than the sound of the MP5 from Modern Warfare 2. For months in 2009, the prickly whine of an MP5 followed (ideally) by the chime of a 3-killstreak UAV meant that I was in my happy place—getting a few matches in after school, probably sipping an energy drink I bought with quarters.

I was the perfect age to become a Call of Duty obsessive and still associate the series with some of my fondest memories of gaming, which is why I’m not surprised that, 14 years later, Activision is bottling up that nostalgia and selling it back to me with Season 3 Reloaded’s “Throwback Audio Pack.”

“The ultimate taste of nostalgia is coming with Season 03 Reloaded,” reads today’s blog post outlining everything coming in the May 10 midseason update. The cosmetic bundle will come with two weapon blueprints: the “Good ’Ol Days” Assault Rifle and the “Lachmann Classic” SMG, both of which are fitted with “familiar attachments and retro-fitted audio from that Call of Duty era.”

Weirdly, Activision isn’t being upfront about which guns thes…

Just when you thought horses couldn’t be fixed, Blizzard went and did it. Here comes the equine evolution we’ve all been waiting for: in Diablo 4 season 2, horses are finally easier to use and faster than ever before.

Starting October 17, when the Season of Blood starts, you will be riding on the sequel to horses (horses 2) in Diablo 4. They are smarter, faster, and stronger than the previous iteration.

Random rocks and objects in the environment will no longer impede your horse in Diablo 4, and you can break right through barriers when you use the Spur skill. Their base speed is 14% faster, the speed boost from Spur lasts 50% longer, and you don’t have to drag your mouse cursor to the edge of your screen to reach max speed—it’s now relative to where your mouse started when you activate it.

“[Spur uptime] is close to 100%,” game director Joe Shely said on a developer update stream today, confirming that the horses truly have evolved.

Diablo 4 horses, evolved”

Much like the absurd number of dead horses you pass by in Diablo 4 (nobody is talking about this), the cooldown for…

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has issued a final judgement in an eight-year legal case, and ordered Apple to pay the Republic of Ireland an eye-watering €13 billion ($14 billion) in unpaid taxes. In its ruling (via BBC) the ECJ said it “confirms the European Commission’s 2016 decision: Ireland granted Apple unlawful aid which Ireland is required to recover.”

The European Commission (EC) first accused Ireland of giving Apple illegal tax breaks in 2016, saying that over the period 1991-2014 all profits generated by two Apple subsidiaries in Ireland were booked creatively for tax purposes. The EC’s issue was not with the arrangement itself, but the fact that this arrangement was not available to other companies, therefore creating an unfair advantage for Apple.

This was appealed by, believe it or not, the Republic of Ireland itself. And it even got somewhere: the EC’s decision was overturned by the ECJ in 2020 on appeal. Today’s judgement supersedes that one, which the ECJ now says had “legal errors”, and concludes that Ireland “conferred on those companies State aid that was unlawful and incompatible with the internal market, and from w…

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