During my time at the 2016 SMITE World Championship, I had the chance to sit down with co-founder and COO of Hi-Rez Studios, Todd Harris.
This trailer for Star Wars Battlefront featuring Anna Kendrick pays homage to one of the defining moments of Star Wars: A New Hope.
The Society of Professional Journalists today launched the Kunkel Awards, a new category to “recognise excellence in games journalism.” Named after pioneering games journalist Bill Kunkel, members of the public are invited to nominate their most admired games journalists for recognition over
On October 27, the Senate voted in favor of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (CISA), a controversial bill that proponents advertise as an essential tool for preventing a cyber attack, and opponents decry as a government approved mass surveillance.
Three British girls from Berkshire have fallen for a 4chan hoax after “free-bleeding” outside of Parliament on Friday to protest the so-called “tampon tax.” 22-year-old Charlie Edge and two friends wore white trousers, held signs of protest, and displayed visible blood stains
Three white male Twitter board members, Peter Fenton, Peter Chernin, and Peter Currie, are reported to be leaving the social network company over the next two years amid changes by the new CEO, Jack Dorsey, in order to diversify the board.
The Washington Examiner reports an audit of the Twitter accounts for the 2016 presidential candidates found Hillary Clinton has the highest percentage of phony followers by far, a whopping 41 percent. This means that of the 4.65 million followers Clinton claims, 1, 906,500 of them might be fakes.
November 2015 may well prove a tipping point in the college campus descent into politically correct chaos.
On December 14, NASA will start taking applications for its next class of astronauts. It’s possible that some of the astronauts will go to Mars, or at least be considered for future Mars missions.
The government is terrible at computers. It gets breached, intercepted, and defaced… and that’s when they can actually get a website up and running, as the well-known Obamacare problems remind us. Despite the VA promising to improve its outdated records systems, so bad they once
Quake Live, the popular free-to-play multiplayer arena game, has been changed and repriced to $9.99 after five years of being free, causing outrage from fans of the classic shooter series. The reprice comes after iD Software, developers of Quake, were
Last week at Blizzcon, Activision Blizzard unveiled their plans for the next few years. Here’s what you missed. Most interestingly, they’re expanding into TV series and movies, using their already established intellectual properties. We got a look at the Warcraft movie trailer, which
“Most of all, other than squirrels I just look at the trees, enjoy the air,” Obama explains in the video, describing his backyard as a National Park. Obama reminds the camera that he is preparing a dramatic push on climate change during a summit on the issue in Paris.
Modern Educayshun, a short film by Neel Kolhatkar, is a hilarious take on social justice and Oppression Olympics culture, and we urge you to watch it. https://youtu.be/iKcWu0tsiZM It’s the followup to his short film #Equality, which enjoyed over a million views and has been
The European Commission, the most powerful body in the EU, is planning web regulation described by one politician as “its most dangerous yet.” Draft documents, leaked by bloggers, shows the Commission planning to regulate hyperlinks, one of the foundational forms of communication on the web.
The song “I Shall Rise,” and original composition from Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ singer Karen O for Rise of the Tomb Raider, gets a music video featuring footage from the game.
The cinematic trailer for StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void, the final expansion in Blizzard Entertainment’s StarCraft II real-time strategy game trilogy.
What does it take to generate a rabid, Maoist-style mob demanding political purges, on an Ivy League campus, in 2015? An email defending “offensive” Halloween costumes, apparently. That’s what kicked off the latest nadir in campus zealotry, this time at
Francesca Collins, social media officer of Bristol University’s Feminist Society, was caught on tape bombing spectacularly out of an interview with a student journalist when asked why she was supporting a campus ban on Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos. Arguing that flamboyantly
The startup’s name is Faraday Future, and it has been hunting for a place to build what it says will be a $1 billion manufacturing plant for a new line of cars. Four states are contenders and the company says to expect an announcement within weeks.
The blogging platform Tumblr has become a byword for the wackiest politics of the fringe left. It’s the touchy-feely home of people who identify with a vast range of allegedly oppressed demographics, including “otherkin,” “transethnics” and “demisexuals.” Yet for some, the
In yet another scandal, journalist and activist Shaun King, the man Breitbart revealed was presenting himself as a biracial leader to the Black Lives Matter movement while having no idea whether he was even black, is under fire from his own supporters.
He doesn’t seem to be polling terribly well at the moment, but “transhumanist atheist” Zoltan Istvan is running for President in 2016, and hoping he might be one of the last humans to hold the job. Scott Beauchamp of the Pacific
Ninjas In Pyjamas announced today that CEO Per Lilliefelth will be standing down with immediate effect, following a Breitbart Tech report that revealed the team owes its players thousands of dollars. Breitbart revealed the management of NiP had withheld prize money and in-game
Myths and conspiracy theories don’t last very long on the internet, but it looks like no one told the Obama administration. The administration recently teamed up with College Humor, an online comedy site, to produce a video to push the White House’s
The latest in the Anno city-builder/strategy game series from Blue Byte and Ubisoft, Anno 2205 tasks players with building cities both on Earth and the Moon in the far future.
