Blaseball, the bizarre, beautiful sports gambling horror sim, is ending forever-
The first season of Blaseball—not baseball—ended with the opening of the Forbidden Book. A solar eclipse immediately followed; the umpires’ eyes turned white, the Moab Desert disappeared into a gaping Hellmouth, and star player Jaylen Hotdogfingers burst into flames. That was the beginning, not the end, of the deep, awesome weirdness that was the hallmark of the browser-based sports gambling horror sim—a later season ended “with a goddamn JRPG boss fight”—but three years later, the strange beauty has finally run its course.
“It is with a heavy heart we announce that we are not going to run the Coronation Era as planned and are making the decision to end Blaseball today,” developer The Game Band announced today.
“The short of it is that Blaseball isn&r…
Tekken director busts into seemingly illegitimate stream, threatens to ‘SHOW my power’ with a lifetime ban, then realises the dude’s innocent-
The upcoming Tekken 8 recently held a closed network test (CNT) that had a PC version, which of course meant that the game pretty quickly got cracked, datamined, and played beyond when developer Bandai Namco wanted it being played. The publisher has subsequently issued a statement acknowledging some players accessed the game beyond the CNT, warning that unauthorised downloading or distribution is illegal, and threatening bans for accounts found to have accessed the CNT after it ended.
The director and presiding spirit of the Tekken series is Katsuhiro Harada who, outside of the official statement, decided to take matters into his own hands. Like Clouseau with sunglasses the developer stalked Twitch looking for streams that were broadcasting gameplay from the CNT after the p…