While Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime can pivot its energy markets to customers like India and China, these countries are known to be price-sensitive and will drive hard bargains. Getty Images Russia’s economy is crumbling under sweeping sanctions and a corporate exodus, a Yale study found. The study stands in contrast to economic releases from…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
The Japanese yen is on track for its strongest monthly gain against the US dollar in three years. Thomson Reuters The yen is on track for its largest monthly gain against the dollar in two years. The dollar has slipped 1.75% month-to-date against the Japanese currency. The Federal Reserve is hiking interest rates aggressively, but…
After Meta’s revenue shrank for the first time in its history, the company has reportedly told publishers it will no longer pay for content to run in Facebook’s News Tab, according to Axios. “Most people do not come to Facebook for news, and as a business it doesn’t make sense to over-invest in areas that…
One of the ways that From Software’s masterful Elden Ring makes it a little easier for players to get through its sprawling world is by letting your reset your character’s stats if you think you’ve allocated some points wrong during level-ups. Elden Ring tips and tricks: Hints for getting started with FromSoftware’s latest game The…
With as many apps and files we all use on a daily basis, oftentimes, it’s almost mandatory to have two monitors hooked up to your computer or laptop. The more we work from home, we notice how annoying going from one monitor to another can be. Thankfully, a new solution appears on the horizon: the…
We have a conclusion! The secret church in Nier: Automata that’s been puzzling players all week has been confirmed to be a mod. Earlier today, reddit user sadfutago – behind all the videos so far – posted a link to a Twitch stream that revealed all behind the previously unseen secret church area and its…
Things are not looking great for the sequel to 2018’s Tomb Raider film adaptation, which starred Alicia Vikander as a young Lara Croft searching for her father on the island of Yamati. A new report from The Wrap has revealed that following its buyout by Amazon, MGM has lost the rights to the Tomb Raider…
Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve found ourselves playing over the last few days. This time: dogs, time, and emergent gameplay in the garden. If you fancy catching up on some of the older editions of What We’ve Been Playing, here’s our…
A modder created a battle royale between all the creatures in Elden Ring, and the pacifist turtle pope won. YouTuber BjornTheBear decided to pit the top 21 animal field bosses against one another in a battle to the death on Caelid’s battlefield, to determine which was the strongest. This was done over a series of…
Former Assassin’s Creed creative director Ashraf Ismail has returned to the games industry with a new role at Tencent, two years after being fired by Ubisoft. Ismail was let go from Ubisoft in August 2020, two months after stepping down from his role as creative director on Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. Multiple women, including some Ismail…