Steam Sales tend to bring mixed emotions to the gaming community. Some, get excited by the prospect of cheap games, others clutch their wallets in fear of what they might not be able to stop themselves from doing and others still, see them as something that's undermining the industry. Whatever …
Read More »Reddit to fire any employees that don’t move to San Fran
Following on from its announcement of a successful $50 million round of funding and a pledge that 10 per cent of that money would go to rewarding the site's community for making it what it is, the “front page of the internet,” Reddit, has told all remote workers that if …
Read More »Reddit to give shares to the community
Reddit's current CEO, Yishan Wong, has announced that he plans to distribute part ownership of the social networking site to the community, through a new share system backed by a brand new cryptocurrency. Operating a little like bitcoin, the crpyotcurrency will have value based on Reddit's value, letting users trade it, …
Read More »Reddit made a killing on the celebrity nude scandal
Reddit recently banned the main groups associated with the “Fappening,” which saw prominent female celebrities' personal photographs leaked onto the internet and distributed via links and uploads to relevant subreddits and just about everywhere else on the web. However before Reddit dropped the banhammer on all forums associated with the event, …
Read More »Prostate Cancer Foundation returns Fappening Redditor donations
While the world of gaming has been embroiled in the whole #GamerGate fiasco, the celebrity bloggers and many an internet community have been frothing over something else entirely. The celebrity nude scandal, or if you'd rather, “The Fappening,” involved the leaking of hundreds of nude photographs of prominent actresses, models and …
Read More »Snoop gatecrashed Will Ferrell’s Reddit AMA
If you were participating in the Will Ferrell AMA on Reddit yesterday, chances are you were excited to hear about a potential sequel to Step Brothers, or find out just exactly what Mark Wahlberg smells like, but what you wouldn't have expected was Snoop Dogg/Lion to show up and try …
Read More »Blurry video snippets combine to form, potential PS4
Remember that PS4 teaser video we put up yesterday? It didn't really show us much of what the PS4 looks like, other than its black and has grills. Difficult to put much more of a picture together than that, but one Redditor has, mocking up what the PS4 could look …
Read More »Live action GTA V trailer in the works
Some images have shown up online for a supposed live-action trailer of Rockstar's upcoming GTA V game, featuring crashed cars, destroyed environments and all the sort of mayhem you'd expect from a game in the GTA series – apart from cops getting shot with rocket launchers that is. The following …
Read More »Microsoft orders massive price hike for Windows 8
In response to a very poor showing around the launch of Windows 8, Microsoft has decided that it must squeeze whatever pennies are available from the few sales that are left in the desktop version of its tablet operating system. Expect big price rises for an operating system you have …
Read More »US politician to ask Reddit how to best protect web freedoms
Zoe Lofgren, current representative for California's 16th congressional district, will be taking to Reddit on the 19th of November to ask the site's users how they think web freedoms would best be protected. Their responses will help build a new piece of legislation that will be put before congress in …
Read More »Barack Obama’s Reddit AMA
While the Ask Me Anything threads on Reddit are often hosted by interesting and important people, tonight the cast just got a little more star studded. President Barack Obama began his own AMA about an hour ago and has been fielding questions from members. While a sceptical mind might immediately …
Read More »Reddit clamp down on child pornography
Some good news this morning as Reddit have decided to ban the posting of sexually suggestive and exploitative images of children. It may seem like a logical course of action, but Reddit have been dealing with child pornography on a ‘case by case' basis for years now. This means that …
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