Monthly Archives: November 2022

Twitter spam obscures China COVID policy protest news

You won’t have much success finding news of China’s growing protests if you search the country’s larger cities on Twitter. As TechCrunchreports, analysts have noticed a surge in bots peddling porn and gambling around these queries just as demonstrations flared in Beijing and other cities over the past three days in response to China’s “zero-COVID”…

Details surface of an F-Zero Switch game prototype

New details have surfaced of an F-Zero Switch game prototype. YouTube channel DidYouKnowGaming interviewed ex-Nintendo programmer Giles Goddard, who now runs his own studio (Chuhai Labs – Cursed to Golf, Carve Snowboarding). Previously he worked on Super Mario 64, Star Fox, and 1080 Snowboarding. In 2021, Goddard hosted a reddit AMA where he admitted F-Zero…

Red Dead Redemption 2 player count hits all-time high on PC

Three years after it released on PC, Red Dead Redemption 2 broke its all-time peak of concurrent players yesterday. Single-player DLC for the game looks unlikely, and the bundled multiplayer offering Red Dead Online was pronounced “dead” by its community of players after developer Rockstar confirmed it would no longer push major updates to the…