[ad_1] Just as the debut LCS tournament was playing out in June 2011, the streaming site Justin.tv launched Twitch, a live-video platform dedicated to gaming. Today, Amazon owns Twitch and streaming is mainstream, with popular personalities regularly commanding multimillion-dollar sponsorship deals. While Twitch has dominated this space for the past half decade, competitors like Mixer […]
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Sega Europe is moving to recycled packaging for PC games
[ad_1] Sega Europe says that this transition comes at a price to the company, but that the lighter packaging means cheaper distribution, helping to offset the higher manufacturing costs. “We’d like…entertainment industries to investigate similar packaging solutions, across movies, games and music so we can collectively observe a drastic reduction in the production of plastic […]
Wirecutter’s best deals: Save $50 on a 7th-gen Apple iPad
[ad_1] NVIDIA Shield TV (2019) Street price: $150; deal price: $125 w/ on-page coupon The NVIDIA Shield TV (2019) is down to a new low price of $125 from $150 when you clip the on-page coupon to get an extra $5 off. Since its recent release, this is the first notable drop we’ve seen on […]
Google spent a record sum rewarding researchers for hacking its products
[ad_1] Google’s Vulnerability Reward Programs (VRP) have been around since 2010, designed to reward researchers for discovering bugs and flaws that Google might have missed. The initiative has expanded steadily since then to cover its other products, including Chrome and Android, and last year the company extended its Google Play security reward arm to include […]
Apple’s latest iPhone lineup was a hit during the holidays
[ad_1] After all, Apple published an unusually harrowing earnings report around this time last year. iPhone sales had tanked mostly thanks to weak demand in China, which prompted the company to dial down its revenue guidance down around $5 billion. (The last time Apple had to pull off that maneuver was about 15 years ago.) […]
‘Destiny 2’ is offline as Bungie tries to fix a data-erasing bug (updated)
[ad_1] The developer is in the midst of testing a fix, including the possibility of restoring any missing goodies. It promised more updates on the situation. The company is keeping the game offline until there’s a solution, though, which could leave players waiting a long time — and it’s not certain that everything they earned […]
Rockstar doles out freebies to ‘GTA Online’ and ‘Red Dead Online’ players
[ad_1] Rockstar’s multiplayer games apparently had a banner holiday, and the company is using that as an excuse to hand out goodies to players (and, conveniently, give them a reason to keep playing). GTA Online gamers will get $1 million in virtual currency if they play before February 5th, and can receive another $1 million […]
Intel is patching its Zombieload CPU security flaw for the third time
[ad_1] Compared to the MDS flaws Intel addressed in those two previous patches, these latest ones have a couple of limitations. To start, one of the vulnerabilities, L1DES, doesn’t work on Intel’s more recent chips. Moreover, a hacker can’t execute the attack using a web browser. Intel also says it’s “not aware” of anyone taking […]
The company behind the Eve V laptop is back with crowd-developed monitors
[ad_1] The most affordable Spectrum monitor ($349) has a resolution of 2560x1440p and a refresh rate of 165Hz — smooth enough for most gamers. The mid-tier option ($489) has the same resolution but an even faster refresh rate, and the high-end Spectrum ($589) runs at 4K but has a slower refresh rate of 144Hz. All […]
This is the end of ‘Kentucky Route Zero’
[ad_1] I interviewed Jake Elliott at GDC 2013, in between the debut of acts one and two, and I asked him about the game’s release schedule, its themes and its ending. Seven years later and on the eve of the final episode’s launch, I read bits of this interview back to the Cardboard Computer team. […]