Steam Chat’s Torrent Blocking Is Entirely Arbitrary

This is curious. Recently Steam users (myself included, after a few tests) discovered that certain torrent links no longer work in Steam chat. Some have even reported messages disappearing altogether. Here’s the thing, though: it only applies to some popular torrent sites, but not others like The Pirate Bay. Steam, as frequent users are likely…

The Xbox One’s Upload Studio video editor just got a whole lot beefier. Videos can now be created with up to 15 segments with a maximum run-time of 30 minutes, and users now have access to transitions, title cards, green screen effects and other tools that separate a video hobbyist from a YouTube professional.

The Toy Story Truck That Is In Every Damn Pixar Movie

If you’re a Pixar fan, you’ve probably heard about the Pizza Planet truck easter egg, which famously appears in many of the films they make. Here is every single instance that the truck has appeared in a Pixar movie, chronicled in four minutes. As you might know, Pizza Planet is a famous location inside of…

Super Smash Bros. Is Unbalanced, And That’s A Good Thing

Controversies over Smash Bros. characters like Diddy Kong and Little Mac illustrate a larger concern that people have with Nintendo’s famous fighting game: is it properly balanced? One of the most compelling arguments I’ve read says no. But then it asks a compelling follow-up: So what? Forrest Smith, a software engineer at Uber Entertainment and…

The Ultimate Up! Cosplayer Gets A Doghouse To Match

Steve Minty is such a huge fan of Disney’s Up! that he adopted a dog, named her Doug and fashioned an MP3-powered voice box so the pair could cosplay together. If these two don’t deserve a custom Up! dog house, I don’t know who does. This spectacular dog house is the latest creation from the…

Worth Reading: Rethinking Frame Rates, Shady Steam Codes, And More

It’s a special Monday edition of Worth Reading, thanks to yours truly running out of time on Friday afternoon. But let’s kick this week off right by inviting debate on some of the most contentious topic around: frame rates and the price of a video game. However… These are paragraphs I might otherwise dedicate to…

Fallout Publisher Sends Legal Threat To Game With ‘Fallout’ In Title

Indie developer and YouTube personality Jordan Maron is changing the name of his upcoming mobile game Fortress Fallout after receiving a cease-and-desist notification from Zenimax Media, the parent company behind Fallout publisher Bethesda. Maron explained in a video published yesterday on his popular YouTube channel CaptainSparklez (via Polygon) that while he’s been working on Fortress…

If you’re a World of Warcraft player who’s colorblind, Blizzard will introduce a slew of new accessibility options in the upcoming 6.1 patch. “For example, when you move your mouse cursor over a piece of rare gear and then a piece of epic gear, the game colors the names of the items blue and then…

Five Nights At Freddy’s Creator Trolls Everyone

Last weekend, the Five Nights at Freddy’s 3 page on Steam had a new announcement from its creator, Scott Cawthon. “Game Cancelled!”, the post said. ” Cawthon said that he had been hacked, and that someone released Five Nights at Freddy’s 3 ahead of time, on a different website. Naturally, people in the comments initially…

Seven Reasons Fahrenheit Is One Of The Finest Adventure Games Ever

Recently remastered in HD for PC and iOS, Quantic Dream’s Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy in the States) set the standard for cinematic adventure games years before Heavy Rain and Beyond Two Souls came along. Want to know why? With a twisted story, ordinary characters in strange circumstances and advanced cinematic storytelling, playing Fahrenheit back in 2005…

Half Price Destiny, Game of Thrones Last Call, Ghibli, More Deals

Destiny’s not a perfect game, but it can be really tough to put down. Plus, it was good enough to make Kotaku’s 12-best lists for Xbox One and PS4. [Destiny, $30] The standard Wii U Deluxe bundle is down to $260 today, including two games. Tax free for most. [Wii U Deluxe with Mario 3D…

A “Definitive Edition” of Darksiders 2 is coming to the PS4, GameSpot has confirmed with publisher Nordic Games. Hooray for more new-gen ports?