Data marketplace and platform Infochimps launched a set of big new features this morning: a common geodata schema that aggregates information about places from multiple sources and offers it up in one API, an automated method of visualizing crowded geodata sets on a map called The Summarizer and a new...
It's been over a decade since the beloved brick-building toy company Lego introduced Mindstorms, its robotics system designed to help kids learn programming, along with other science, technology, engineering and math concepts. We've featured Lego Mindstorms previously in our series on tools for teaching kids to code, and Mindstorms is...
The hype around Deadpool & Wolverine is palpable and rightly so since we get to see Hugh Jackman reprising his legendary role but this time, in the comic book accurate suit. Thankfully, you too will be able to don the iconic blue and yellow, along with the contrasting red and...
Time is ticking m’hearties and the Cursed Sails Pirates of the Caribbean event is well and truly underway in Fortnite. Now if you are the kind of player who likes to max out their rewards from these types of shenanigans you will definitely want to add both available skins for...
Finally, finally the Pirates of the Caribbean Fortnite content has arrived and if you want to get all Jack Sparrow on the Island then the Cursed Sails pass is for you, er me hearties. Unless you have ever written a pirate-themed news article, you can never really comprehend how difficult...
The PlayStation Summer Sale is upon us, the last major gaming sale until, well the next one but it won’t be long before we start talking about Holiday and end-of-the-year sales - yes, the year has passed that quickly. There are some amazing PlayStation games to be picked up in...
Super Mario and Baskin Robbins have teamed up to bring the ice cream of gaming dreams to Japanese stores. Since their debut in the mid-1980s, Mario and Luigi have been a beloved part of the gaming world, bringing charm to hundreds of collaborations. Now those Japanese summer days and nights...
The Sonic x Shadow Generations collectors' edition brings the value with a reasonably priced figure for the series. Sega announced the collection earlier last month but was yet to add an opportunity for US fans of the superfast hedgehog to buy the collectors edition. Sonic x Shadow Generations gets a...
A whopping $19 billion is estimated to have been spent on games that have been purchased, but never been played. This amusing figure, representing the combined "Pile of Shame" of games that fans bought, say they'll get around to — yet never do — is more than the gross national...
A Steam Deck handheld console can now be had for less than a Nintendo Switch as Valve’s Steam Summer Sale kicks off on Thursday. The 15% off discount drops the Steam Deck’s LCD, 64 GB format down to $296.45, or $100 less than its launch MSRP, in a teaser promotion...
The fact Nintendo's confirmed schedule of launches for the rest of 2024 only showed two as of this morning may have left some with the impression there weren't many games coming to Nintendo Switch, as the company readies for an anticipated 2025 launch of its successor console. Yeah, the June...
The newest additions to the PlayStation Plus game catalog have dropped for June, with all the titles being playable from June 18 onwards for subscribers to the service. These follow several titles released in a bonus round as part of the Days of Play celebrations earlier this month, including Streets...
The new Fortnite update is incoming and the servers are down for maintenance - and we all know how well this can usually go. With a downtime of three to four hours expected all going well we have a little bit of chill time to see what will be new...
Summer Game Fest kicked off on Friday with a two-hour showcase in which host and gaming impresario Geoff Keighley came out swinging haymaker punches on behalf of embattled video games developers for publishers and developers large and small. “This has been a tumultuous and difficult year with company layoffs and...
According to leaks, Ubisoft’s new first-person-shooter (FPS) XDefiant is set to get a host of new Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Rabbids content. The leaks, originating from prominent leaker Rogue I Tx, have all but been taken down for media infringement but gave a good indication of the intellectual property...
PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium’s next lineup will release on May 21 and it’s rather impressive. The big headliner is Red Dead Redemption 2, the 2018 wild-west epic from Rockstar Games. Other games include Deceive Inc., (for PlayStation 5); Crime Boss: Rockay City (PS5); The Settlers: New Allies, (PlayStation 4);...
Fall Guys, the multiplayer team battle royale title, has a vibrant community, and they aren’t pleased about the features of a recent update. The backlash comes in response to the Fall Forever update on May 7th that introduced unlimited creator-made content. The British developers Mediatonic said at the time of...
The Nintendo Switch Online subscription library has been expanded once again with the introduction of three classic Game Boy titles. Nintendo is set to make us all nostalgic as they’ve revealed three games Switch Online members can download and play for free. These include Baseball, Alleyway, and the classic Mario...
If you loved the Prime Video Fallout adaptation which has taken the world by storm, you’re in luck - Amazon has announced a Tomb Raider series as part of its deal between Crystal Dynamics and Amazon MGM Studios. Amazon has managed to snag Phoebe Waller-Bridge to both write and produce...
We're as surprised as the rest of you that 2024 is the year of Fallout. Since the launch of the Amazon Prime TV show, the game series has seen a massive resurgence, which you can be part of by grabbing a copy of Fallout 3 (plus all its expansions) for...
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