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  • ✇Kongregate Newsroom
  • Game On—With the New Achievements Page!Kongregate
    We're thrilled to unveil exciting updates to our Achievements page, designed to elevate your experience in discovering and celebrating your gaming milestones. These enhancements are already live—dive right in and explore our latest features!Weekly Kongpanion Banner RedesignedThe Weekly Kongpanion Banner got a facelift, sporting a new look and introducing mini badges. These new elements add a charming touch to each edition and shiny state. Animations now celebrate your achievements with excitemen
     

Game On—With the New Achievements Page!

18. Leden 2024 v 00:30
Game On—With the New Achievements Page!
Game On—With the New Achievements Page!

We're thrilled to unveil exciting updates to our Achievements page, designed to elevate your experience in discovering and celebrating your gaming milestones. These enhancements are already live—dive right in and explore our latest features!

Weekly Kongpanion Banner Redesigned

The Weekly Kongpanion Banner got a facelift, sporting a new look and introducing mini badges. These new elements add a charming touch to each edition and shiny state. Animations now celebrate your achievements with excitement, making the experience of unlocking your Kongpanion and reaching the shiny state even more thrilling!

Game On—With the New Achievements Page!

Certificates - Coming Soon!

Commemorate every milestone with easily downloadable and shareable certificates, encapsulating the essence of your Kongpanion's journey through each attained state. The responsive design guarantees a smooth experience on all devices, immersing you in the captivating world of Kongpanions.

Game On—With the New Achievements Page!

Same Easy Navigation

We introduced a new navigation feature for our Games pages. Now we’re bringing this to the Achievements page too! This feature displays all categories for easy jumps between genres without returning to the main page. Refine the grid based on your preferences, filtering by earned status, difficulty, etc.

Game On—With the New Achievements Page!

Enhanced Grid View

With the ability to see more achievements simultaneously in a responsive grid, the browsing experience becomes an easy and exciting journey, welcoming users to explore the world of achievements.

  • ✇Kongregate Newsroom
  • The Chronicles of Kongregate: A New Year SpecialKongregate
    'Twas a few days into 2024When an engineer at KongregateBurst into laughter - a joyous roar.He asked ChatGPT to write him a taleAbout our history and all it entails.He shared it with the teamA lovely debutAnd then he asked us to share it with you:Once upon a time in the mystical realm of the internet, a place where Flash games ruled supreme, there emerged a sanctuary for gamers seeking pixelated adventures and button-mashing bliss. Behold, the legendary kingdom known as Kongregate.com!In the anc
     

The Chronicles of Kongregate: A New Year Special

3. Leden 2024 v 22:12
The Chronicles of Kongregate: A New Year Special

'Twas a few days into 2024
When an engineer at Kongregate
Burst into laughter - a joyous roar.

He asked ChatGPT to write him a tale
About our history and all it entails.

He shared it with the team
A lovely debut
And then he asked us to share it with you:

The Chronicles of Kongregate: A New Year Special

Once upon a time in the mystical realm of the internet, a place where Flash games ruled supreme, there emerged a sanctuary for gamers seeking pixelated adventures and button-mashing bliss. Behold, the legendary kingdom known as Kongregate.com!

In the ancient days of 2006, when flip phones were all the rage, a duo of gaming wizards, Jim and Emily Greer, conjured the idea of a platform where players could gather to slay dragons, solve puzzles, and procrastinate on important life decisions. Thus, Kongregate was born, a digital utopia where Flash games frolicked freely.

The Chronicles of Kongregate: A New Year Special

The kingdom quickly became a haven for indie game developers, attracting them like moths to a pixelated flame. With a benevolent spirit, Kongregate bestowed a magical currency called "Kreds" upon its citizens, allowing them to customize their avatars and decorate their profiles with all the flair of a medieval tapestry.

The Chronicles of Kongregate: A New Year Special

As the years rolled on, the Great Kongregate Library expanded, featuring games of all shapes and sizes, from epic sagas to mini masterpieces. Soon, badges, those coveted symbols of achievement, adorned the profiles of valiant gamers who dared to conquer the ant-filled realms.

The Chronicles of Kongregate: A New Year Special

In a twist of fate, the kingdom faced adversity as Flash, the lifeblood of its existence, was marked for extinction. Yet, the resilient wizards of Kongregate adapted, embracing new technologies like HTML5, ensuring the survival of the realm and the continued quest for high scores.

And lo, the kingdom still stands today, a testament to the enduring spirit of gaming camaraderie. From idle games to epic RPGs, Kongregate.com remains a virtual tavern where gamers gather to share laughter, challenges, and the occasional questionable fashion sense for their avatars.

The Chronicles of Kongregate: A New Year Special


So, let us raise a digital tankard to Kongregate.com, the pixelated paragon of play, where gamers of all lands continue to unite in the pursuit of fun, badges, and the eternal quest for the next great gaming adventure!

Happy 2024!

The Chronicles of Kongregate: A New Year Special

For more narrative adventures, try out AI Adventure Creator.

  • ✇Kongregate Newsroom
  • The Journey Continues—New Game Pages!Kongregate
    We're ready to share some awesome updates to our game pages, all geared toward making your game discovery experience more dynamic and engaging. These enhancements are live now, so dive in and explore our new features!Category PreviewStarting with the Games Page, we've implemented significant changes by eliminating the left-hand rail. This creates a streamlined and immersive browsing experience where each gaming category takes center stage on the page. Users can preview content from various genre
     

The Journey Continues—New Game Pages!

29. Listopad 2023 v 21:54
The Journey Continues—New Game Pages!
The Journey Continues—New Game Pages!

We're ready to share some awesome updates to our game pages, all geared toward making your game discovery experience more dynamic and engaging. These enhancements are live now, so dive in and explore our new features!

Category Preview

Starting with the Games Page, we've implemented significant changes by eliminating the left-hand rail. This creates a streamlined and immersive browsing experience where each gaming category takes center stage on the page. Users can preview content from various genres without having to make a selection first – simply scroll to explore all available categories before diving in further!

The Journey Continues—New Game Pages!

Search Reimagined

Search functionality is a top priority for us, and you can expect numerous enhancements in the upcoming months that go beyond visual upgrades. Similar to the Homepage, the search bar is prominently featured at the top of all our game pages, ensuring a seamless and intuitive experience.

Easy Navigation

On the Category Detail Page, we've introduced a new navigation feature at the top. This feature displays all categories for easy jumps between genres without the need to return to the main page. Sorting options have also been included. Refine the grid based on your preferences, filtering by badges, top-rated titles, most-played games, and the newest and oldest releases to get the best match.

The Journey Continues—New Game Pages!

Get the Details

We've introduced a significant change to our Search Results Page – a shift from the traditional list format to a more visually engaging full-width grid layout where each game card displays essential information such as title, genre, badges, and user ratings without requiring you to hover over it. The goal is to offer a quicker and more user-friendly search experience, simplifying the process of finding the game you're looking for. Happy gaming!

The Journey Continues—New Game Pages!

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  • ✇Kongregate Newsroom
  • New Look, New Fun, New Homepage!Kongregate
    We're thrilled to unveil our brand-new homepage on Kongregate.com, representing a big leap toward making your online experience easier and better than ever. Your online activities should be smooth, intuitive, and most importantly, fun. With that in mind, we've put a lot of thought and effort into creating a homepage that changes how you navigate and browse our platform.Responsive DesignToday, we can confidently say that our homepage smoothly adjusts for the first time to fit all screen sizes and
     

New Look, New Fun, New Homepage!

26. Říjen 2023 v 15:00
New Look, New Fun, New Homepage!
New Look, New Fun, New Homepage!

We're thrilled to unveil our brand-new homepage on Kongregate.com, representing a big leap toward making your online experience easier and better than ever. Your online activities should be smooth, intuitive, and most importantly, fun. With that in mind, we've put a lot of thought and effort into creating a homepage that changes how you navigate and browse our platform.

Responsive Design

Today, we can confidently say that our homepage smoothly adjusts for the first time to fit all screen sizes and various devices. Whether you're browsing from your desktop computer, a convenient tablet, or the convenience of your smartphone, you can expect a flawless user experience where nothing gets cut off, and game grids proudly showcase our games, making them more accessible than ever before.

Streamlined Navigation

The main navigation has transformed, featuring a streamlined single-row design with a larger, cohesive font size as it travels with you down the page! Additionally, related functionality has been grouped to live in a drop-down for your profile and finally featuring Kreds!! Also, take a moment to appreciate our handsome new footer with quick links to helpful resources.

Game Discovery

At the top of the grid, you'll notice a new top row showcasing fresh games meticulously selected for discovering the newest and most outstanding titles tailored to you. As well as incorporated tags to facilitate quick and effortless exploration of new games within our most compelling and top-rated categories.

Improved Search Functionality

Search has moved out of the navigation bar and onto the page, making search more accessible and user-friendly. The recommendation list dynamically adapts as users type their query, providing convenience and efficiency with relevant real-time suggestions, saving time and effort and ultimately resulting in an improved search experience.

New Look, New Fun, New Homepage!

Unified Game Card

Last but certainly not least, we're excited to present the result of our hard work and dedication: our brand-new, unified game card that brings together all the information you are familiar with and love. This card makes a great first impression with just the cover image and title but ensures easy access to essential details when you hover over it. You'll find links to developers, tags, ratings, auto-rotating visuals showcasing key moments from each game, and more!

What’s Next?

New Look, New Fun, New Homepage!

We've achieved substantial milestones, yet our journey continues. We welcome your valuable feedback on our revamped homepage–what elements you find praiseworthy and what you believe we could enhance further.

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  • ✇Techdirt
  • Sports Illustrated Threw Lavish Parties As It Was Shit-canning All Its Actual JournalistsKarl Bode
    As the Vice collapse and Messenger collapse just got done illustrating in glorious technicolor, the problem with online U.S. journalism isn’t that it’s not inherently profitable. The problem is usually that the worst, least competent, shallowest people imaginable routinely fail upward into positions of management, then treat the media companies they acquire and operate like a disposable napkin. That’s certainly been the case over at Sports Illustrated, which isn’t so much even a media organizat
     

Sports Illustrated Threw Lavish Parties As It Was Shit-canning All Its Actual Journalists

Od: Karl Bode
1. Březen 2024 v 22:31

As the Vice collapse and Messenger collapse just got done illustrating in glorious technicolor, the problem with online U.S. journalism isn’t that it’s not inherently profitable. The problem is usually that the worst, least competent, shallowest people imaginable routinely fail upward into positions of management, then treat the media companies they acquire and operate like a disposable napkin.

That’s certainly been the case over at Sports Illustrated, which isn’t so much even a media organization anymore as much as it is a bloated brand corpse being exploited by extraction-centric, visionless failsons, who have minimal coherent interest in the company’s original function: sports journalism.

That’s all well exemplified by this Washington Post article that explores how as the company was falling apart and its journalists and editors were being fired right and left, the folks in charge of the company were throwing lavish Super Bowl parties. It’s well worth a read, and features a lot of doublespeak by managers who talk out of both sides of their mouth about “values” and “mission.”

Over the past six years Sports Illustrated has been tossed around between a rotating crop of dodgy middlemen for whom journalism was an afterthought. SI was acquired in 2018 by what was left of Meredith Publishing as part of the purchase of Time (which founded the magazine in 1954), then had its intellectual property sold to Authentic Brands Group (ABG) for $110 million a year later.

ABG has basically just been renting the Sports Illustrated brand to a company by the name of The Arena Group, which has been mismanaging it for most of that time. The company, like Vice, was run by a lot of non-journalism, affluent, hedge fund brats, simply interested in blindly chasing engagement at impossible scale via seventy-five consecutive but nonsensical attempts to “pivot to video.”

Arena just got bogged down in a massive scandal after it began using fake AI generated authors to create shitty, fake AI-generated journalism — without bothering to even tell staff or readers. Then the company balked on paying its $12 million yearly fee to ABG, resulting in more chaos.

Now Authentic Brands Group is left pondering what to do with the brand. And it will probably involve renting it yet again to some other set of visionless brunchlords keen on chasing engagement at impossible scale in the most superficial way possible. The people who pay the actual price for this incompetence are, as usual, the journalists and editors who have little to do with mismanagement.

When you read the Washington Post article, there seems to be some realization by the executives at ABG, like CEO Jamie Salter, that you can’t just hollow a journalism company out like a pumpkin and parade the corpse around to sell shitty supplements without repercussions:

“Salter insisted SI’s journalism remains central to his mission. “That’s the mouthpiece to the brand,” he explained. “It’s not as critically important from the financial side, but what we put out there from journalism [is the] core. If you took the shoes out of Reebok, I’m not sure Reebok would be Reebok anymore.”

But then these hustlebros will proceed to do exactly that. Repeatedly. Their entire function is to collect brands, exploit and extract any last bit of value, and then when they’ve drained all meaning from the husk, toss it in the trash and start over somewhere else. Salter seems to throw most of the blame for this dysfunction in the lap of The Arena Group, but the dysfunction is commonplace and everywhere in media.

And then the question the Post correctly asks is, why are the actual employees doing the work always left holding the bag, while never getting a cut of the proceeds? Why does this extraction class view labor as such an irrelevant, exploitable resource in the pursuit of their fourth home?

“If Authentic is forging a new way to monetize a media brand — and, to be sure, there are not a lot of happy stories anywhere in media today — why, SI staffers asked, can’t they get a real cut?”

…”As the fates of some 80 staffers hang in the balance and Authentic contemplates its next move, whatever comes next for SI — a new publisher, a zombie website, a cultural renaissance or anything else — Salter probably will be just fine.”

The Sports Illustrated implosion is just such a perfect example of the utterly hollow vision of a lot of the modern media extraction class. There’s really no genuine interest in craft, or journalism, building consistent audience, or longevity. It’s just mindless consolidation, acquisition, quirky tax tricks, and exploitation dressed up as savvy deal-making, all slathered in as much tacky neon paint as possible.


Microsoft to introduce “AI PC” branding

1. Listopad 2023 v 18:35

It looks like Microsoft is introducing a new 'brand' for PCs, the AI PC.
Read more


The post Microsoft to introduce “AI PC” branding appeared first on SemiAccurate.

Microsoft to introduce “AI PC” branding

1. Listopad 2023 v 18:35

It looks like Microsoft is introducing a new 'brand' for PCs, the AI PC.
Read more


The post Microsoft to introduce “AI PC” branding appeared first on SemiAccurate.

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