Capcom migrating some titles over to a new online service

Just not the ones that weren’t developed by Capcom GameSpy Technologyis shutting down on May 31. We’ve seen some companies respond to this, stating thatthey’ll fix theirold titles so they live on, or straight upjust abandonthem.Capcom has responded, and they’ll be migrating some titles over to a new online multiplayer service. Street Fighter III: Third Strike Online EditionandMarvel vs Capcom Originsare already up and running on a new service. Capcom is in the process of migrating overLost Planet 3, because they seriously think people are still playing it online....

May 19, 2025 · 1 min · 151 words · Steven Adams

Chex Quest HD coming to balance your breakfast this summer

Cereal Killer Flight School Studios has announced thatChex Quest HD– a remake of the 1996 “non-violent-first-person-shooter”Chex Quest– will launch on PC via Steam this summer. In keeping with its novelty theme,Chex Quest HDwill be a free-to-play title. The originalChex Questwas released as a prize hidden inside packs of the crunchy cereal. Having officially licensed a copy of theDoomsource code from id Software, developers Dean Hyers and Mike Koenigs set about creating a virtual re-skin, replacingDoom‘s violent content with cereal-based alien battles....

May 19, 2025 · 1 min · 148 words · Brandi Berger

Comiket is a go, check out these new doujin games

Astebreed developer spotlights this summer’s hot Japanese indies Comiket, the world’s largest festival for self-published media, begins today. Over the course of the weekend, more than half a million people will descend on the Tokyo Big Sight exhibition center. Their mission? To acquire rare goods directly from the people that make them. The streets of Ariake will soon be flooded with independently produced manga, anime and videogames — some of which are highlighted in this reel put together byEdelweiss, the doujin studio behindAstebreed....

May 19, 2025 · 1 min · 109 words · Brandon Knox

FTC Wants to End the Hell That Is Trying to Cancel a Free Trial or Subscription

The Federal Trade Commission is looking to do aside with hard to cancel subscriptions — aren’t we all ? A novel proposal from the FTC would require merchants to make it easy for consumer to remove themselves from so - called gratis trial or recurring subscription with an updated policy the commission bring up to as “ click to cancel . ” The insurance policy proposal was herald this morning by the FTC ....

May 19, 2025 · 3 min · 463 words · Anna Clark

Hawkeye‘s First 2 Episodes Hit the Bullseye of Character Development

When I found tear in my eyes five minutes into the first episode of Hawkeye , I took that as a good sign . Marvel Studios ’ up-to-the-minute show is finallyon Disney+ , with the first two episodes now streaming . It explore how Clint Barton ( Jeremy Renner ) is processing life in apost Avengers : Endgameworld while also showing how his heroism has bear upon a young , wealthy New York girl named Kate Bishop ( Hailee Steinfeld ) ....

May 19, 2025 · 12 min · 2467 words · Shane Johnson

Mass Dota 2 purge resets over 17,000 ‘cheat’ accounts

At the weekend, Valve announced that they had made a mass sweep of player accounts within their mega-popular multiplayer titleDota 2. In all, over 17,000 player accounts were reset for trespasses such as cheating, or being re-sold or alt-accounts. Games such asDota 2, and online multiplayer titles in general will always be plagued with problems as people bend the rules to protect their stats and streaks, Although Valve’s steps this weekend will make a heavy dent in some ofDota 2’scheating issues, it’s obviously not going to eliminate the rule-breakers entirely....

May 19, 2025 · 1 min · 161 words · Charles Rose

Meet the Croffle, the Croissant-Waffle Crossbreed Hoping to Be the New Cronut

Ever since Dominique Ansel debuted the cronut in 2013 , a whole deal of other croissant - based twirl - offs have pip the market , from cruffins ( croissant - gem ) tocrotillas(croissant - tortilla ) . Running parallel to that craze is citizenry ’s ongoing obsession with sticking practically anyfood — grill cheese , pizza pie , polenta , cinnamon pealing , omelet , you name it — into theirwaffle makerand marveling at the issue ....

May 19, 2025 · 2 min · 352 words · Paige Avery

Nintendo created an Animal Crossing Instagram account, and it INSTAntly became famous

I can feel the eye rolls Every so often Nintendo decides it’s time to move over into the new era: as evidenced by their hella-late Switch Online service. This week it’s an Instagram account: which your kid would totally make fun of you for just joining in 2020 (God mom it’s all about TikTok now). Nintendo done did it last night, posting a cute little slideshow montage ofTwiggy the bird. The fact that this simple post caught on fire instantly is proof positive of how insatiable Nintendo fans are for anything content-related, as it blew up the official account to 100,000+-ish followers in just eight hours....

May 19, 2025 · 1 min · 169 words · Christie Gay

Teeny Songbird Makes Colossal 1700 Mile Journey Over Atlantic

It may only librate the same as a few teaspoons of boodle , but the blackpoll warbler is proving you do n’t have to be big to be bold . This intrepid songbird migrates each drop from easterly Canada towards South America , but it does n’t take this colossal journeying at a leisurely pace . Far from it , in fact . harmonize to anew study , this teeny , unassuming bird journey more than 1,500 Roman mile ( 2,400 klick ) over the Atlantic Ocean , non - stop , in just a few day ....

May 19, 2025 · 4 min · 655 words · Bruce Blanchard

The Nintendo Play Tour 2014 hits the road soon

As early as this week If you’re itching to play a lot of recent high profile Nintendo portable games, you’ll want to catch the Nintendo Play Tour, which may be coming to your local area. The games available areKirby: Triple Deluxe,Yoshi’s New Island,Pokemon X/Y,A Link Between Worlds,Super Mario 3D Land,Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D, andMario Kart 7. A lot of these games are pretty old, but it’s a perfect chance to give the 2DS/3DS a go if you haven’t picked one up yet — plus, there are banana shaped seats, Yoshi Egg chairs, and costumed characters....

May 19, 2025 · 1 min · 211 words · Tracy Pena

The Steam Summer Sale is live with an adventure minigame and new Game Profiles

Choose your store-venture The2021 Steam Summer Salegoes live today, with the usual glut of sales on games across the Steam platform. There’s also a minigame tie-in, and this year, the theme seems to be adventuring through the sales pages. “Forge Your Fate” leads you to a page where you’re able to flip through different genres, each with their own special landing page denoting games on sale within that category. Once you’re done skimming the selection, you can choose to “continue your story,” leading into various choices that will ultimately be reflected in a special badge....

May 19, 2025 · 1 min · 128 words · Larry Taylor

Wild Elephants May Get the Least Sleep of Any Mammal

Sleep is a funny thing . We literally ca n’t live without it , yet there ’s still a stack about it that we just do n’t understand . Now , new brainwave into the unconscious hours of African elephants may puddle the affair further , as a study in the journalPLOS Onefinds that the monumental beasts drop barely any fourth dimension asleep at all . Scientists havehypothesizedthat the size of a mammal ’s body is negatively consort with the amount of sentence it spends sleeping ; in other word , grownup animals slumber less than low one ....

May 19, 2025 · 3 min · 532 words · Brian Harris

'Biological aging' speeds up in times of great stress, but it can be reversed during recovery

When you purchase through links on our site , we may earn an affiliate commission . Here ’s how it works . Our " biological age , " which mull over mansion of long time - have-to doe with decline in our cells and tissues , does n’t steady increase along with our chronological age . Instead , new research indicate that biologicalagingcan accelerate during trying events and then overrule after those events ....

May 18, 2025 · 4 min · 851 words · Ryan Reid