Sega’s biggest franchise, Sonic the Hedgehog, has topped 1.5 billion sales. As spotted by our sister site, GamesIndustry.biz, the Japanese megacorp confirmed in its most recent financial report that that figure includes all premium sales and free-to-play downloads since the franchise was born in 1991. Interestingly, Sega Sammy Holdings also revealed sales of its other…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Modern Warfare 2’s ping system has seemingly been disabled in an attempt to control “wall-hack” cheaters. Within hours of reports that a ping bug on your death screen could let you track a single player for the rest of the game surfaced, developer Infinity Ward quietly disabled the ping system. “Huge Bug: You can Ping…
It was in 2009 when the power of Twitter really became evident. As some Iranians tweeted through the country’s elections during a media blackout, the site began to emerge as a critical tool of global activists. Later movements, including the 2011 Egyptian revolution and the Movement for Black Lives, relied on Twitter to disseminate information…
Remember when you were in grade school and found out you had a new teacher? Imagine Twitter as that class, and Elon Musk as the teacher now that a whole bunch of Twitter users are testing the boundaries of what’s allowed on the app under the tutelage of someone new. Researchers have seen a spike…
How often does your tech teach you something completely new about your physicality? For me, rarely – especially when said revelation pertains to the very thing that earns me the bulk of my income these days, my ears and testing the best wireless headphones on the market. But today was not a normal day. The illuminating…
PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP via Getty Images McDonald’s is taking the McRib on its fourth farewell tour. Restaurant chains frequently bring back discontinued items to greater sales and demand than before. A farewell tour is more of a “call to action” than a sign the McRib will actually leave menus, an analyst said. McDonald’s McRib is…
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A 1983 copy of “Jaws” and a 1981 copy of “Carrie.” Heritage Auctions Texas-based Heritage Auctions is auctioning 100 VHS tapes of classic horror movies this Halloween. They may be antiquated, but vintage VHS tapes can command scarily high prices at auction. In June, a sealed tape of “Back to the Future” was sold by…
Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif speaks at an event on June 22, 2022. Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif was shot dead in Kenya in what police said was a case of “mistaken identity.” His widow and former PM Imran Khan allege it was a targeted killing due to his criticisms of the…
Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva and Jair Bolsonaro speak to each other during the presidential debate ahead of the runoff, on October 16, 2022 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Alexandre Schneider/Getty Images Brazilians will vote for a new president on Sunday in the country’s runoff election. Far-right President Jair Bolsonaro faces leftist former President Luiz Inácio…