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Gaming for charity: Speedrun streams raise $121,000 and counting
Games Done Quick has raised over $121,000 for charity in less than 24 hours on the first day of a week-long livestreaming event. Awesome Games Done Quick 2015 (AGDQ) is operated by a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that showcases skilled gamers completing “speedruns” of various games. In gaming, speedrunning refers to beating a game in the shortest ...
3 exciting non-sequel games coming out in 2015
There is nothing wrong with a good sequel. In fact, there are many games whose sequels were arguably better than the original—games like Assassin’s Creed II or The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. But seeing the same handful of franchises come out year after year can get tiresome, especially when the games start to blur together in an endless ...
Keep your New Year’s resolution with these 4 gamified apps
It is not always easy to keep up with a New Year’s resolution. Self-discipline is difficult to maintain after the excitement of the holidays wears off and the chaos of everyday life returns. Most resolutions fail when the New Year energy fizzles out, but self-improvement doesn’t need to be a boring slog. Whether it is getting in shape ...
Get caught up with Twitter’s “While you were away” feature
Soon you will no longer have to worry about being out of the loop on Twitter if you forget to check in your usual five or fifty times a day. Twitter Inc. has started rolling out a new feature to select users that recaps some of the most popular and interesting tweets they may have missed since ...
Elder Scrolls Online rumored to be going Free-to-Play
Bethseda Softworks, LLC has ceased offering any subscription plans longer than 90 days for The Elder Scrolls Online, prompting rumors that the game could soon be moving to a Free-to-Play (F2P) model within the next year. Elder Scrolls Online players noticed that the 6 month subscription option, which offered a slight per-month discount for the longer subscription ...
Zuckerberg turns to Facebook to crowdsource his New Year’s resolution
Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is turning to the more than 1 billion Facebook users for help in picking his “personal challenge” for 2015. “I’m crowdsourcing ideas for my next year’s personal challenge,” Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post. “For background, every year I take on a challenge to broaden my perspective and learn something ...
EA denies Origin security breach despite user concerns
Several Origin users have complained of fraudulent game purchases made on their accounts, but Origin owner Electronic Arts (EA) claims that no security breach has been made. Word of a possible security breach began to spread on Reddit when several threads popped up complaining about games being purchased on users’ accounts without their knowledge. /u/Hatec, a moderator ...
Steam hits new user records at over 8.3 million
At the height of its holiday sale season, Valve Corporation’s Steam client has broken its old usage records by peaking at over 8.3 million concurrent users last weekend. When Steam was first released over a decade ago, Valve’s content delivery platform was not exactly popular with gamers, who found the system to be unstable and ...
Post-holiday Twitter catch-up: Embarrassing ad campaigns and more
Despite some recent hiccups with Twitter Inc.’s falling share prices, a lack of investor confidence in company CEO Dick Costolo, and a sudden drop in service for Android users, the 140-character micro-blog service is still going strong. Here are a few things you may have missed on Twitter over the holidays. Tweets used to plan cities ...
Facebook apologizes to a father for heartbreaking “Year in Review”
Facebook Inc.’s “Year in Review” feature lets users relieve their memories from 2014, but for some people the images and posts displayed focused on some of the worst moments of their lives. One such user was Eric Meyer, a web designer from Ohio who lost his six-year-old daughter, Rebecca, to brain cancer earlier this year. ...
