Video GameNearly 2,000 Wordle clones targeted as NYT issues DMCA takedownNYT says its Wordle copyright includes "unique elements" of its game like "the 5x6 grid" and "green tiles to indicate correct guesses."Christopher LivingstonMarch 11, 2024
Video GameWatch Walton Goggins do a bunch of chems and blast a fist-sized hole in a dude in the new Fallout series trailerSee The Ghoul in action… before and after the bombs fell.Christopher LivingstonMarch 7, 2024
Video GameReady to binge? Every episode of Amazon’s Fallout TV show will be available at once on April 11The new Fallout show trailer reveals that you'll be able to binge it if you want.Christopher LivingstonMarch 7, 2024
Video GameThe Frostpunk 2 release date trailer is here, along with two ways to play the survival city builder before launchFrostpunk 2 is launching in July, but people who preorder can play it earlier. Like... months earlier.Christopher LivingstonMarch 6, 2024
Video GameThis mashup of city builder and grand strategy will take you from building a capital city to achieving ‘total global domination’In Kaiserpunk, you don't just manage a city, you span the globe.Christopher LivingstonMarch 5, 2024
Video GameWhy survival MMO Dune: Awakening won’t have sandwalking: ‘It looked ridiculous and it made you walk really slowly’Dune: Awakening's creative director Joel Bylos says "we made an attempt at" the Fremen practice of sandwalking, but it wound up being a drag.Christopher LivingstonMarch 4, 2024
Video GameYou can claim land for your base on Arrakis in survival MMO Dune: Awakening, but you’ll have to pay the Emperor for itHere's our first look at Dune: Awakening base-building... but there's no escape from paying taxes, even in space.Christopher LivingstonMarch 4, 2024
Video GamePoker-themed deckbuilder Balatro gets delisted from some stores after its PEGI rating absurdly jumps from 3 to 18+ over ‘gambling imagery’"I do not condone gambling," says Balatro developer LocalThunk, "nor do I believe that Balatro contains gambling."Christopher LivingstonMarch 1, 2024