Lara Jackson 
YouTube stars including Jake Paul and RiceGum have come under fire for ‘promoting bogus loot boxes’ on their channels. A website called MysteryBrand has been featured in their videos, which showcase the YouTubers winning huge prizes through mystery-loot-box-style gambling. The way it works is pretty much the same as in-game loot boxes. Before you open your virtual … Read more
Slightly Mad Studios, the company behind games such as Project CARS and Need For Speed: Shift, has announced it’s planning to release its own console. Company CEO Ian Bell tweeted the news to his followers, saying: “The Mad Box is coming…We’re going 90 per eye, 180 FPS internally. My CTO has just called me and … Read more
Now I’m not saying get excited, but definitely get intrigued, because it looks like Valve has gotten a few members of its Dream Team back together again. As confirmed by the man himself, Gabe Newell, Half-Life 2 and Portal 2 co-writer Eric Wolpaw has made a comeback to the company, assumedly working on a brand-new … Read more
The Call Of Duty franchise generally swaps and changes its developers depending on the game, and judging from the past, it looks like Infinity Ward is the next developer up to tackle the upcoming game in the series. Ashton Williams, Senior Communication Manager at Infinity Ward, recently sent COD fans into a frenzy with a single … Read more
The success of Marvel and Insomniac Games’ PlayStation 4 exclusive Spider-Man, means any future game bearing the Marvel name has got some pretty huge boots to fill. But when it comes to creating AAA games that focus on creating worlds, immersing the player and providing some seriously in-depth lore and stories, you can almost always rely … Read more
Twitch streamers are usually up for a bit of friendly mocking and p*ss-taking in the chat, and we’ve all seen our fair share of outright trolling from subs and viewers. If you thought you’d seen all the Twitch pranks under the sun then you might want to think again, as people have figured out how … Read more
YouTuber PewDiePie was once famous for his horror Let’s Play videos, but he’s now mostly recognised for his social commentary videos discussing news, controversies, memes and the media. PewDiePie makes no secret of his issues with YouTube as a platform, criticising it for its monetisation criteria, its changes to the algorithm and its tendency to … Read more