Xbox continues its spending spree, buying Activision-Blizzard for almost $70 billion. We spent almost the entire podcast discussing it, from future game exclusivity to Microsoft’s role in cleaning up Activision Blizzard’s toxic…
How Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard Purchase Compares to Other Major Entertainment Acquisitions
Microsoft once again shifted the landscape of video games in early 2022 by announcing a $68.7 billion USD deal to acquire Activision Blizzard, the gaming giant behind Call of Duty, World of…
Pandemic Digital Board Game Removed from Sale Because of Quality and Reliability Issues
Nearly two weeks after the digital version of the Pandemic board game was quietly delisted from Steam for seemingly no reason, developer Asmodee Digital and publisher Z-Man have finally released a statement…
Activision Needs Xbox to Take on Trillion Dollar Companies, Bobby Kotick Says
In his first interview following the news that Xbox is acquiring Activision Blizzard for close to $70 billion, current Activision CEO Bobby Kotick says the deal is necessary to compete with trillion-dollar…
Riftforce Review
Back in 1995, famed game designer Reiner Knizia invented a simple two-player Poker variant you could play with a deck of playing cards. Rather than a betting game, it saw players trying…
Opinion: It’s Not a Console War, It’s a Content War
The notion of a “console war” is outdated, and has been for years now. What began as a silly rivalry between fans of different game systems secretly jealous of the games they…
Intel tips plans for a Bitcoin mining ‘Bonanza’ chip
Intel has signaled that the next generation of Bitcoin mining rigs may ship with “Intel Inside” stickers, as the company has announced plans to at least discuss a “Bonanza Mine” chip for…
Windows 11 SE is Microsoft’s latest Chromebook killer
Update: On January 18, Microsoft said that it had begun to ship with Surface Laptop SE as well as a number of third-party laptops, described in a . They include the laptop,…
Samsung’s newest mobile processor has an AMD GPU with ray tracing
Did you know that Samsung makes its own processors? You’d be forgiven for glossing over that — the flagship Galaxy S series of phones technically uses Samsung’s home-grown Exynos system-on-a-chip, but almost…
Developer of a Whole Different Wordle App Donates Unexpected Profits to Charity
The developer of an app called Wordle, which was released five years ago, has donated his profits to charity after hundreds of thousands of people mistakenly downloaded it in an attempt to…