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The State of Fortnite in 2022: Pretty epic Battle royale, live service platform, metaverse—has Epic’s global smash outgrown labels? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. To kick off 2022, we’retaking a lookat the major games, genres and platforms that make PC gaming to see where they’re at as we begin a new year. Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 2:Everything we knowBest Fortnite skins: Finest virtual threadsFortnite Creative codes:Best custom mapsFortnite on iOS: How to play Fortnite on GeForce NowFortnite Toys: The best NERF guns, action figures, and more...

US court permabans Roblox troll who made ‘terrorist threats’ And added a $150,000 fine for good measure. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Last November we reported on the Roblox Corporationsuing a longtime thorn in its side: one Benjamin Robert Simon, known online as Ruben Sim, who made controversial content on and about the platform for many years. The suit alleged Simon “commits and encourages unlawful acts designed to injure Roblox and its users” while seeking $1....

What to actually expect from NFTs in games this year Here’s what the big publishers have said, and how existing games are already implementing NFTs. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. I’m confident that I’ll know inner peace again one day, and that day will come when I can go at least a week without hearing about NFTs. Right now it’s hard to go a single day without someNFTchatter popping up: a new tech company rolling out NFT avatars, a videogame executive bullish on NFTs and the metaverse, a startup angel investor posting a word salad tweet thread about how they’ll change art as we know it....

Won’t somebody think of the poor scalpers? Argues scalper service provider This one is only worth reading if you want to feel mad about it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. The current ongoing chip shortage is affecting tech from all walks of life. Electronics all over the world have become a bit harder to get, with gaming hardware hit especially hard when coupled with crypto mining demand....

Yakuza creator announces new studio where ‘the scale of the game will be bigger’ Nagoshi Studio is being funded by NetEase. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Toshihiro Nagoshi, the veteran designer whose career began with Daytona USA before latterly focusing on the Yakuza series, left Sega in February 2021. Industry scuttlebutt at the time was that Nagoshi was joining the Chinese tech giant NetEase, news confirmed today with the announcement of his new venture: Nagoshi Studio....

Dark Souls PvP servers are down as security vulnerability is investigated A new exploit has been demonstrated which allows malicious code to be run through Dark Souls 3’s online functionality. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Update:Following the discovery of a serious security vulnerability in Dark Souls 3, Bandai Namco has acknowledged the problem and temporarily suspended PvP servers on PC....

Raven QA strike ends, at least for now The employee group, A Better Activison-Blizzard King, says the move is a gesture of good faith in moving forward with management. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Following theformation of a new unionby Raven Software QA workers last week, the established employee advocacy group atActivision-Blizzard, A Better ABK, hasannounced the endof Raven QA’s nearly two month-long strike, at least for the time being....