celebrities

Have celebrity, will sell; explore video games with celebrities at the center and celebrity-recommended video games.

Absolute Randomness Would Ruin the AAA Game You Think You Want
Picture this. You are in a realistic AAA game, carrying the key item the main quest needs. You have walked a mountain road for three days. You have calculated weather, stamina, and equipment wear. You even begin to enjoy the slow, certain accumulation. Each step brings you closer to the goal. Then a random avalanche falls. It buries the item. There is no warning, no solution, and no prompt telling you that you can shovel the snow. You stand in the snow with nothing but an empty backpack.
By Jin2 days ago in Gamers
They Bought the Game. Then the Servers Died. Now Players Are Rebuilding It With AI.
On January 12, 2026, EA shut down Anthem’s servers for good. The game had no offline mode. Its world, characters, and content died on the official service. Less than a week later, a community developer named And799 posted a video. Two players had entered the same Anthem lobby on a self-built server emulator.
By Jin5 days ago in Gamers
NBA Jam : a great triumph in sports gaming
Back in the day I had a Sega Genesis Game Gear and it ruled! The one game that I had was “NBA Jam” and it was a great basketball video game. I used to go to the bowling alley when NBA jam video game came out and I would always ask for quarters and change to go to the arcade that was in the bowling alley just to play. It was the first arcade game I ever really played. I loved it. The look and aesthetic of the video game standalone machine was awesome too, as well as the video game that I was playing on it.
By Revista Miko:XCI 6 days ago in Gamers
Steam Is Flooded With AI Games. Players Are Not Buying Them.
In October 2025, Steam Next Fest showed 2,960 games. Of those, 504 disclosed generative AI use. That is 17%. By June 2026, the number of demos had grown to 4,227. Of those, 1,694 carried an AI tag. That is 40%. In the second quarter of 2026, AI games made up about one-third of new Steam releases. Their estimated share of sales was about 10%. In the fourth quarter of 2025, that sales number hit 27%. A few breakout hits pulled it up.
By Jin9 days ago in Gamers
Phantom Blade Zero’s 66 Days Mode Is a Death Clock the Developers Can’t Beat
At Tokyo Game Show 2026, a 4Gamer reporter asked Liang Qiwei whether anyone on the development team had cleared the “66 Days” mode without dying once.
By Jin10 days ago in Gamers
Buy-to-Play Isn’t Always the Better Deal. My Steam Backlog Proved It.
Many players say the same thing: buy-to-play games are a better deal. At first, that sounds obvious. Free-to-play games cost nothing. Buy-to-play games cost money. How could the paid option be cheaper? Then you play a few free games. You see how they work. Free is the entrance. Inside, gacha, skins, battle passes, monthly cards, first-time recharge bonuses, limited bundles, and seasonal quests pull money and time out of you through thin pipes.
By Jin11 days ago in Gamers
Why DNF Stopped Being Fun (It's Not Nostalgia)
You're sitting in Grandine. One full fatigue bar is gone. A few fake purples lie on the ground. You don't pick them up. In your storage, you still keep the chainsaw, the flamethrower, the Ice Dragon greatsword you dropped back then. Back then, when a boss pink dropped, you could type three lines in guild chat, hands shaking. Now you open the equipment dictionary. Those things are still there. No one talks about them.
By Jin12 days ago in Gamers
We Called Her Ditzy. Her Coworkers Called Her the Only One They Trusted.
If you dropped Estelle Bright into an office, most people would write her off in a week. She talks too loud. She asks the question everyone else is avoiding. She yells "Joshua!" across the room. In a company full of careful email phrasing, she sounds like a liability.
By Jin15 days ago in Gamers
Berlin’s 2036 Olympic Bid Died in 45 Seconds
On September 24, 2026, Berlin Mayor Wegner stood before the cameras and announced the city was withdrawing its bid to host the 2036, 2040, and 2044 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Inside the German Olympic Sports Confederation, one phrase summed up how the two-year campaign ended: “45 seconds, all gone.”
By Jin16 days ago in Gamers
The Failed Game Studio That Accidentally Built Xbox
On March 22, 1995, Bill Gates and Steven Spielberg stood on a stage at Microsoft headquarters. Reporters held recorders and cameras. Gates said the joint venture would hit “hundreds of millions of dollars” in sales within two to three years. Spielberg called it a marriage made in heaven.
By Jin27 days ago in Gamers
My Mother Died While My Father Couldn’t Get Past a Lock Screen Ad
The Wall Was Called “Monetization” At 4 a.m. on August 30, 2026, in Jinan. The bathroom light was on. A woman lay on the floor. Heart attack.
By Jinabout a month ago in Gamers
Nobody Talks About the Middle: The Story of DewittEagle
For nearly a decade, Samuel DeWitt has been building a world of his own on Twitch. Now, the creator behind DewittEagle is entering a new chapter.
By Andrew Collins2 months ago in Gamers