PS5 shooter goes from 5 players to bestseller after devs defend game(polygon.com)

70 points by driftsumi-e 1 year ago | 34 comments

Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship(polygon.com)

449 points by mrzool 1 year ago | 385 comments

Polygon news article on gamers mass-emailing and calling Visa and Mastercard to protest payment-processor pressure on Steam and itch.io over adult games.

CA law means stores can't say you're buying a game if you're merely licensing it(polygon.com)

163 points by sxp 2 years ago | 72 comments

Dragon's Dogma 2's combat is sloppy and unrefined – on purpose(polygon.com)

3 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 0 comments

Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime is making a tabletop RPG party game(engadget.com)

11 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 0 comments

CAPTCHAs: 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service'(pcgamer.com)

146 points by ghuroo1 1 year ago | 88 comments

Inside Polymarket's paid quote-retweet esports program(readergrev.com)

80 points by paimapi 10 days ago | 53 comments

A Readergrev investigation into Polymarket's program paying esports accounts to quote-retweet its posts while making the promotion appear organic.

The browser's main thread is expensive(kciter.so)

408 points by kciter 1 month ago | 141 comments

A devlog post on kciter.so explaining why work on the browser's main thread is costly and how it affects web app responsiveness.

European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage(torrentfreak.com)

348 points by Brajeshwar 3 months ago | 98 comments

TorrentFreak article reporting that EuroISPA asks the EU Commission to hold rightsholders liable for damage caused by overblocking in site blocking orders.

Reddit Strike Has Started(reddark.untone.uk)

1689 points by Freddie111 3 years ago | 988 comments

Reddark is a live tracker showing which subreddits have gone dark or read-only in the June 2023 Reddit protest, with a counter of private subreddits.

There is no official XScreenSaver GitHub repository(github.com)

63 points by st_goliath 6 days ago | 66 comments

A GitHub repository by jwz whose only content is a README stating there is no official XScreenSaver GitHub repository.

Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability(electrek.co)

80 points by ciconia 26 days ago | 93 comments

Electrek article reporting that Tesla is taking on $30 billion in credit as the company nears unprofitability.