A web developer from Spain who’s tired of boring CAPTCHAs decided to spice things up by creating a Doom-themed CAPTCHA for fun. The small minigame, which is playable on the project’s GitHub page, challenges you to shoot four imps with a pistol before time expires. If you complete the task, …
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Tencent, the internet behemoth that has investments in numerous gaming companies around the world, has now bought shares in yet another studio. Alan Wake and Control studio Remedy Entertainment has announced that Tencent recently purchased 500,000 shares in the Finnish studio from Accendo Capital SICAV RAIF. This works out to …
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Virtua Fighter 5 is coming back as a digital exclusive on PS4 (and presumably PS5 through backwards compatibility), as Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown. The fighting game that originally released on PS3 and Xbox 360 has been remastered for the new generation and arrives on June 1. [Update: We’ve now …
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From the GTA series’ famous curated radio stations to the launch of virtual nightclubs that featured real resident DJs in GTA Online’s After Hours update, Rockstar is now taking its musical ambitions to the next level with the launch of a music label in collaboration with CircoLoco. Rockstar has teamed …
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June 23 marks Sonic the Hedgehog‘s 30th anniversary, and Sega will celebrate Sonic’s legacy and the franchise’s multiple spin-offs with a fan appreciation video and a virtual event called Sonic Central. Taking place on May 27 at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET, Sonic Central will feature Sega’s Sonic …
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The Portal movie from director JJ Abrams and Valve is still alive. Abrams himself confirmed as much in an interview with IGN, saying the project has a script and it’s in the works at Warner Bros. However, Abrams’ Half-Life film is less of a certainty. “We actually do have a …
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Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick recently said in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz that he believes that the additional sales and revenue that the video game industry racked up due to the pandemic represents a “permanent shift.” This follows Take-Two’s year-end earnings report last week, where the publisher cited a “transformational shift …
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The game that became Watch Dogs was initially intended to be a new Driver game, according to a new report from VG247. The report cites three sources who worked on the project from its inception in the early 2010s, and details how the game slowly progressed from a modern reinvention …
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Doom is now playable through a GIF image hosted at fanfiction site Archive of Our Own (aka AO3), which is quite the achievement. A software engineer named Andrew Sillers exploited the way that GIF images are loaded by websites like AO3 in order to add new frames to the end …
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Starbreeze Studios was in a perilous position several years ago, as it branched into publishing, acquired multiple studios, and planned to develop its own virtual reality headset resulted in company behind Payday spreading itself too thin. With Overkill’s The Walking Dead proving to be a financially and critically disastrous game, …
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