With one more vote, the Senate will be able to pass a resolution of disapproval aimed at the decision of Pai’s FCC. If a disapproval resolution is passed, “the rule may not take effect and the agency may issue no substantially similar rule without subsequent statutory observation.” This means that if a joint resolution passes reversing the FCC’s decision, the FCC can’t simply rename its “Restoring Internet Freedom Act” to the “We’re Definitely Protecting the Internet Act!” John McCain stated his

Brandan Apple of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia is facing charges in connection with a massive spambot attack against Twitch streamers that took place between February and May of 2017. According to the CBC, Apple is facing a charge of “mischief in relation to computer data,” for “willfully causing multiple repetitive messages to be transmitted.” The criminal charges are separate from, but connected to, a civil case filed in BC Supreme Court that sheds more light on what happened. Twitch eventu

For the past seven years, he’s been developing Iconoclasts full-time completely on his own. We first played Iconoclasts in 2013, two years before it hit Steam Greenlight bearing an optimistic 2016 release date. Iconoclasts is set in a world where everyone’s jobs are decided by The One Concern, a sort of government overseer, Sandberg tells me. He got into making games as a teenager through the development group Clickteam and, after a few years of tinkering with small ideas, started Iconoclasts in

There are plenty of reasons to consider a Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution, with having readily accessible data backups one of the biggest ones. However, some of the fancier NAS boxes go above and beyond simple backups. QNAP’s five-bay TS-563 is one of them, and it’s currently on sale for $409 at B&H Photo. Unfortunately it doesn’t come with an hard drives, so that’s an added cost, but this is a higher end NAS solution powered by an AMD quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, and 512MB of flash

Now the company is touting a set of next-generation wireless VR technologies that is its calling TPCast 2.0. There are three main features of TPCast 2.0, the first of which is an ultra-low latency codec. “This easy-to-use, stable, and ultra-low latency codec enables TPCast’s product family to deliver consistently high-quality real-time video transmission,” the company says. With the introduction of TPCast 2.0 technologies, TPCast claims it is the “first VR provider to support short, mid, and lon

The latest Civilization 6: Rise and Fall trailer takes a break from introducing new leaders and nations to provide an overview of the new systems that will be ushered in by the expansion, including Great Ages, Loyalty, Governors, Enhanced Alliances, Emergencies, and new Wonders and Units. The primary addition, Golden and Dark Ages, are temporary changes to a civilization that last for an era. Both can dramatically alter the state of the game and will force players to adapt their strategies accor

The message doesn’t get into the specifics of where it all went wrong, but it does acknowledge that describing the update as being in need of further polish is an “understatement.” “Let’s start with the tech and visual changes [in the update]. “Then there’s the content drop (over 120 new cards) and the fact we haven’t introduced new cards in some time. A patch and hotfix released this month only addresses “major bugs,” so for the immediate future the developers will continue working on balance a

We did three separate four-month-long projects where we “shipped” a really small game, just for free. Then we started working on InnerSpace. We started with that, then worked our way toward a flying game. Getting the game working on Switch means things run faster. As far as DLCs or expansions, I think we’re going to wait and see what everyone wants out of the game.

Technically, Microsoft pulled the plug on its free upgrade offer to Windows 10 a long time ago—in July 2016, a year after the OS was released to the general public. Barring another deadline extension, that offer is finally coming to end, with today being the last day to upgrade for free. Most recently, the free upgrade offer was supposed to end on December 31, 2017, but then Microsoft pushed the deadline back to January 16, 2018. According to Statcounter, Windows 10 and Windows 7 are virtually t

Along with writing and directing, Andrew Cull takes exceptional videogame screenshots—several of which he graciously allowed us to use in our round-up of beautiful screens from 2017 games. His latest project is a group gallery of videogame portraits on Flickr, which contains some stunning work that was exclusively “shot in game and not manipulated in image editing software afterwards.” “There are so many great portraits already in the group that narrowing down my selection to twenty four shots t

Last year, Tencent unsuccessfully pursued the acquisition of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds developer Bluehole/PUBG Corp. In November, the tech giant secured the rights to officially distribute the battle royale ’em up in China. This version is yet to launch in the region, however Bloomberg (via VG24/7 ) reports Tencent has since helped law enforcement agents clamp down on cheat software manufacturers. According to Bloomberg, Tencent has worked with police to uncover somewhere in the region of 30

It was a total accident.”When Enslaved was released for consoles in 2010 (the PC version wouldn’t arrive until 2013), Ninja Theory was a largely untested studio. The story had been adapted many times before but Ninja Theory gave it a unique twist. Ninja Theory was clearly still finding its feet, and Enslaved’s battles feel shallow and toothless compared to the likes of DmC. When I first played Enslaved in 2010 I remember being amazed by how nuanced the motion-captured animation was. But regardle

Robot Cache will also have its own cryptocurrency called Iron, earned through mining or game resales, that can be used for games purchases or cashed out. “Just a handful of companies dominate the multi-billion dollar digital download PC video games market,” Robot Cache CEO Lee Jacobson said. “Robot Cache plans to revolutionize the industry by launching the first-ever workable decentralized video game marketplace that benefits both the creators of video games and gamers. Robot Cache promises big

Due later this year, Two Point Hospital marks the debut project of Two Point Studios, and pulls from the ’97 classic Theme Hospital. “When we did Theme Hospital we had ideas for Theme Prison, Theme Resort. Theme Hospital had its own quirky off-centre, offbeat take on the sim genre. Two Point says mod support is planned for Two Point Hospital shortly after launch, and that online features include competitive challenges. Two Point Hospital is due at some stage in 2018.

In the wake of its November launch, much of the conversation around Star Wars Battlefront 2 has been tied to loot boxes. With its controversial microtransaction system still frozen, EA breaks into 2018 with a new patch, number 1.1. As detailed in this forum post, the latest update adds the Crait map to the game’s Blast mode wherein players can “battle in mines among the machinery and crystals leftover from previous occupants.” “For the duration of Inferno Leader, all enemies within a radius are

Yesterday, we reported on Monster Hunter: World’s gorgeous Coral Highlands—an arena bursting with colour and stalked by the cutesy Paolumu. Today, we visit the Rotten Vale swampland that’s far less pretty and filled with Radobaan. In the following short, the narrator describes the latter as “the skeletal scoundrel who coats his tar-like body with the bones of fallen monsters”. Look, see:As you’ll see there, the narrator describes the Rotten Vale itself as having “become a breeding ground for put

This is an ex-plumber’s guide to bathroom murder. In doing so, my absolute favourite hiding haunt is when holed up in an abandoned bathroom. This is the essence of bathroom murder in that I wait for someone to enter my bathroom and murder them. Fallout 3’s rim radiationThis act of toilet murder is self-inflicted. Less toilet murder, more a sobering reflection of humankind’s feeble mortality.

After my hands-on at last year’s Gamescom, I declared Final Fantasy 15’s Windows Edition a sight to see in 4K, if you’ve got the PC to handle it. The game’s 4K HDR specs are expectedly more demanding. Final Fantasy 15: Windows Edition supports Native 4K and 8K resolutions with HDR10 and DOLBY ATMOS along with ongoing mod support.” Final Fantasy 15’s Windows Edition (Royal Edition as it’ll appear on consoles, featured above) also comes with a number of features that have been added to the base ga

Okay, this is a big ask, cause just about nobody does guns like Bungie does guns. But Borderlands has always been a shooter where the feeling of pulling the trigger and killing an enemy was fine, but not amazing. But how much better would Borderlands’ procedurally generated arsenal of wacky guns be if the feedback and punch of each gun was as satisfying as it is in Bungie’s Destiny 2? Those are lofty goals to aspire to, especially with procedurally generated weapons, but Gearbox has a big opport

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds is the big dog in the battle royale fight, but Fortnite is quickly making up ground. Epic Games reported today that the game now has 40 million players, and that its peak concurrent user count recently broke the two million mark. It’s not as easy keeping up with Fortnite’s numbers as it is with most other games, because it’s not on Steam and so we can’t just hit the numbers whenever we feel like it to see how things are going. But even though it’s not an apples-to-a