If you haven’t seen the original “Steamed Hams” bit — officially known as “Skinner and the Superintendent,” from classic season seven episode “22 Short Films About Springfield” — please watch it below. While the internet has praised “Steamed Hams” for years, a specific take on the goof caused a resurgence in mid-November. But the thread’s top post linked out to a video from October: “Steamed Hams but it’s a Custom Guitar Hero Song.” It’s exactly what it sounds like. Now there’s “Steamed Hams But

Paul’s video was not monetized; in multiple playthroughs, no pre-roll, mid-roll or banner ad was shown. “Our hearts go out to the family of the person featured in the video,” YouTube’s statement reads. Before all the extended community outrage against Logan Paul’s “we found a dead body” video, there was a seemingly uncontested 550-600,000 likes on it. He starts his video by saying its title — “We found a dead body in the Japanese Suicide Forest …” —isn’t clickbait. Paul’s video is bookended wi

Paul’s video was not monetized; in multiple playthroughs, no pre-roll, mid-roll or banner ad was shown. “Our hearts go out to the family of the person featured in the video,” YouTube’s statement reads. Before all the extended community outrage against Logan Paul’s “we found a dead body” video, there was a seemingly uncontested 550-600,000 likes on it. He starts his video by saying its title — “We found a dead body in the Japanese Suicide Forest …” —isn’t clickbait. Paul’s video is bookended wi

Steam’s latest sale gathers together the year’s most popular PC games and puts them all in one place. Called simply The Best of 2017 Sale, Valve has divided the most successful and influential titles across five categories. To adhere to the theme of the list, Valve includes free-to-play games as well as games that are not on sale. That list includes 155 titles in all, including some discounted by more than 60 percent. Highlights include:There are also deals on the top games that can only be play

Steam’s latest sale gathers together the year’s most popular PC games and puts them all in one place. Called simply The Best of 2017 Sale, Valve has divided the most successful and influential titles across five categories. To adhere to the theme of the list, Valve includes free-to-play games as well as games that are not on sale. That list includes 155 titles in all, including some discounted by more than 60 percent. Highlights include:There are also deals on the top games that can only be play

Some of YouTube’s top creators, including PewDiePie, drama reporter Keemstar and YouTube’s go-to news source Phil DeFranco, dug a little deeper. It’s now time for YouTube to take responsibility for its top creators. Disney ends his deal with Maker Studios, YouTube ends his YouTube Red show, Scare PewDiePie, and he loses some advertisers in the process. Now, to give you a point of reference, I get about 12 million views a month. Logan Paul, Jake Paul, PewDiePie, JonTron, Keemstar and other YouTub

Some of YouTube’s top creators, including PewDiePie, drama reporter Keemstar and YouTube’s go-to news source Phil DeFranco, dug a little deeper. It’s now time for YouTube to take responsibility for its top creators. Disney ends his deal with Maker Studios, YouTube ends his YouTube Red show, Scare PewDiePie, and he loses some advertisers in the process. Now, to give you a point of reference, I get about 12 million views a month. Logan Paul, Jake Paul, PewDiePie, JonTron, Keemstar and other YouTub

If you lived through the 1990s, it’s hard to imagine missing the phenomenon that was Beanie Babies. This week on The History of Fun podcast, we explore the rise and fall of Beanie Babies. Every Monday, Russ Frushtick, Allegra Frank and Chris Plante explore the hidden backstories behind the things we love to do. Or how about why Beanie Babies exploded and then vanished into the sands of time? We’ll seek to answer those questions and have some fun along the way!

If you lived through the 1990s, it’s hard to imagine missing the phenomenon that was Beanie Babies. This week on The History of Fun podcast, we explore the rise and fall of Beanie Babies. Every Monday, Russ Frushtick, Allegra Frank and Chris Plante explore the hidden backstories behind the things we love to do. Or how about why Beanie Babies exploded and then vanished into the sands of time? We’ll seek to answer those questions and have some fun along the way!

If you haven’t seen the original “Steamed Hams” bit — officially known as “Skinner and the Superintendent,” from classic season seven episode “22 Short Films About Springfield” — please watch it below. While the internet has praised “Steamed Hams” for years, a specific take on the goof caused a resurgence in mid-November. But the thread’s top post linked out to a video from October: “Steamed Hams but it’s a Custom Guitar Hero Song.” It’s exactly what it sounds like. Now there’s “Steamed Hams But

YouTube was a cesspool of negativity: Creators fought against leaving the network as executives worked tirelessly to redeem the company’s image. It was impossible to not talk about YouTube in 2017, no matter how hard we tried. As a result, Disney’s Maker Studios cut ties with PewDiePie, and YouTube cancelled the creator’s YouTube Red series, Scare PewDiePie. And just when things were looking up for creators, YouTube was hit with its most disturbing story of 2017, and a new adpocalypse loomed. As

Star Wars: Battlefront 2 showed us how a good space combat game set in the Star Wars universe could look on modern hardware, and now a pitch video from 2016 has surfaced that shows another company’s take on the genre. The pitch was put together by Double Damage, who knew that it would probably not amount to much. Kotaku has the details:“This was back in 2016, and we pitched a modernized take on X-Wing with all the classic bits”, [Double Damage’s Travis] Baldree tells Kotaku. “Assets are cobbled

Star Wars: Battlefront 2 showed us how a good space combat game set in the Star Wars universe could look on modern hardware, and now a pitch video from 2016 has surfaced that shows another company’s take on the genre. The pitch was put together by Double Damage, who knew that it would probably not amount to much. Kotaku has the details:“This was back in 2016, and we pitched a modernized take on X-Wing with all the classic bits”, [Double Damage’s Travis] Baldree tells Kotaku. “Assets are cobbled

That means that PUBG would have to be finished and ready to go before it launched on the PlayStation 4. That can be seen as either a weakness or a strength of the platform, depending on your feelings about early access software. “Early Access on Steam and Game Preview on Xbox One are like pre-release, so they don’t have a restriction on quality,” Kim explained. There were cases where a game took six months more to launch even when it was already completed. We need to think about other platforms

That means that PUBG would have to be finished and ready to go before it launched on the PlayStation 4. That can be seen as either a weakness or a strength of the platform, depending on your feelings about early access software. “Early Access on Steam and Game Preview on Xbox One are like pre-release, so they don’t have a restriction on quality,” Kim explained. There were cases where a game took six months more to launch even when it was already completed. We need to think about other platforms

Sumo Digital, the U.K. developer currently working on Crackdown 3 and Dead Island 2, has acquired CCP Games’ Newcastle studio, which had previously worked on Eve Online spinoff Eve: Valkyrie. Sumo Digital Newcastle will be led by Owen O’Brien, the former CCP Newcastle studio head and executive producer of Eve: Valkyrie. Sumo Digital didn’t announce what the Newcastle studio would be working on, only saying that the acquisition “extends Sumo’s capacity and breadth of experience.” Sumo Digital’s r

Sumo Digital, the U.K. developer currently working on Crackdown 3 and Dead Island 2, has acquired CCP Games’ Newcastle studio, which had previously worked on Eve Online spinoff Eve: Valkyrie. Sumo Digital Newcastle will be led by Owen O’Brien, the former CCP Newcastle studio head and executive producer of Eve: Valkyrie. Sumo Digital didn’t announce what the Newcastle studio would be working on, only saying that the acquisition “extends Sumo’s capacity and breadth of experience.” Sumo Digital’s r

Giger-esque free-to-play multiplayer game that built on some of their ideas from Dark Sector, a game they developed and released in 2008 to middling reviews. Today, Warframe is a successful title with a fiercely dedicated fanbase that supports Digital Extremes’ team of around 160 employees. Warframe took a very long path to success with constant growth, which is a different story than an initial stumble and return to prominence. “One of the big advantages is that we’re a PvE game, we’re a co-op

Giger-esque free-to-play multiplayer game that built on some of their ideas from Dark Sector, a game they developed and released in 2008 to middling reviews. Today, Warframe is a successful title with a fiercely dedicated fanbase that supports Digital Extremes’ team of around 160 employees. Warframe took a very long path to success with constant growth, which is a different story than an initial stumble and return to prominence. “One of the big advantages is that we’re a PvE game, we’re a co-op

Destiny 2 developer Bungie is taking the game’s servers offline tomorrow, Jan. 3, so it can conduct maintenance and issue a new patch, the studio announced recently. ET, at which point people who aren’t already playing will no longer be able to log in to the game’s servers. While the Destiny 2 servers are undergoing maintenance, Bungie will issue a hotfix that will update the game to version 1.1.1.2. Considering the frustration that has been mounting for months in the Destiny 2 community, Bungie