Gearbox Head Responds to Terminally Ill Fan's Wish to Play Borderlands 4. „We're Going to Do Whatever We Can to Make Something Happen”
A terminally ill fan of the Borderlands series turned to the community for help in ing Gearbox Software. Shortly thereafter, the head of the studio got in touch with him and will help make his dream come true.
video games
October 25, 2024
Doug Cockle has Prostate Cancer; Witcher's Voice Actor Urges People to Get Checked
Doug Cockle, the actor who voices Geralt, has announced that he has prostate cancer. The artist appealed for preventive screenings.
video games
June 7, 2023
Fan Takes Away Geralt's Disease Immunity to Incease Llong COVID Awareness
With a new modification for The Witcher 3, Geralt will have to deal with long-term symptoms of the coronavirus. The work was created for a worthy cause.
video games
May 14, 2023
EVE Online Players Against COVID-19
C Games boasted the results of the third edition of Project Discovery in EVE Online. As part of it, players performed 47 million coronavirus-related tasks, thus helping scientists in their research on COVID-19.
video games
November 9, 2020
Virtual Pandemic Unleashed on a WoW Server
The s of one of the so-called private servers of World of Warcraft - Elysium - decided to create an event aimed at educating players on issues such as the spread of infectious diseases and ways to fight them. The idea came up in connection with the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic.
video games
April 16, 2020
Sensitive Gaming is Fine? The WHO Encourages to Play Video Games
The gaming industry and the World Health Organization launched #PlayApartTogether. The campaign promotes compliance with the recommendations in the fight against coronavirus using video games. Some Internet s point out that this is in contradiction to the current WHO policy, which culminated in the recognition of excessive gaming as a disease last year.
video games
April 2, 2020
Folding@Home is Earth's Mightiest Supercomputer Battling the Coronavirus
Greg Bowman, the man responsible for the Folding@Home project, reported that the initiative currently has 470 petaflops of computing power, making it „the most powerful supercomputer in the world”. Such a high level has been achieved thanks to the increased interest in the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
hardware & software
March 24, 2020
Use Your GPU and U to Fight Coronavirus
Anyone with a Windows, Linux or MacOS can contribute to the invention of the cure for COVID-19, all thanks to the Folding@home application developed by Stanford University.
hardware & software
March 14, 2020
Foldit - Gamers Will Help Defeat the Coronavirus
The University of Washington wants to take advantage of the of gamers in the fight against the novel coronavirus. To this end, scientists have released a new challenge in Foldit, which can help to find a way to neutralize the disease.
video games
March 4, 2020
Amazon Removes Offers for Coronavirus-related Price Gouging
Amazon has decided to remove more than one million item sale offers from its website. The reason was false ment and price gauging. The case is related to the epidemic of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease labeled as COVID-19.
hardware & software
March 4, 2020
E3 2020 Preparations Moving Full Steam Ahead, Despite Concerns
The organizers of E3 - Entertainment Software Association - informed that for the time being they have no plans to cancel the event in connection with the coronavirus epidemic. Plans may change if the world situation requires it.
video games
March 3, 2020
Microsoft, Unity and Epic Games Withdraw From GDC 2020
We have just learned that more companies have resigned from participating in this year's edition of GDC. These are Microsoft, Unity and Epic Games, which, like their predecessors, fear for the health of their employees due to the coronavirus epidemic.
video games
February 27, 2020
Facebook Will Ban Some of the Coronavirus Medicine Ads
Facebook has announced that it intends to ban several ments of COVID-19 coronavirus medicine, which are said to spread fear and play on emotions. The company does not want the website to be used for disinformation and making money from the commotion associated with this epidemic.
hardware & software
February 26, 2020
CD Projekt RED is Not Coming to PAX East 2020
CD Projekt RED informed that it will not appear at PAX East 2020 in Boston. Although no official reason was given, one can guess that the decision was made because of the COVID-19 coronavirus threat. A similar step was taken by PUBG Corporation.
video games
February 26, 2020
EA Limits its Presence on GDC Due to Coronavirus
Electronic Arts informed their employees that it would limit their presence at GDC 2020 and warned them not to go to the fair. The source of information is a LinkeIn post of one of the people employed in the company.
video games
February 25, 2020
PAX East 2020: Square Enix and Capcom Change Plans Due to Coronavirus
The Japanese companies Square Enix and Capcom have announced a reduction in their presence at the PAX East 2020 trade event due to the COVID-19 coronavirus.
video games
February 25, 2020
Hideo Kojima is Giving up GDC 2020 Because of Coronavirus
Kojima Productions will not appear at GDC 2020. Hideo Kojima's team decided not to participate in the event due to the threat of coronavirus, thus taking the example from Sony.
video games
February 24, 2020
Coronavirus: Samsung Temporarily Shuts Down Its Smartphone Factory
Samsung has decided to close one of its factories for the weekend - a plant located in the Korean city of Gumi, where Samsung Galaxy Fold and Samsung Galaxy Z Flip smartphones are manufactured.
hardware & software
February 24, 2020
The Last of Us 2 Presentation Cancelled - Sony Resigns From PAX East
Sony resigned from the PAX East event. This means that there will be no special preview of the playable version of The Last of Us 2. The reason for the decision is the fear of the coronavirus.
video games
February 20, 2020
The Chinese Play Even More Because of the New Coronavirus
The coronavirus epidemic in China has caused the Chinese to spend their extra free time playing video games with friends. The mobile game Honor of Kings has broken its average activity record per day, and several titles on the Douyu streaming platform are twice as popular as a year ago.
video games
February 18, 2020