BlockBlasters wasn’t a game. It was a $150K crypto heist hiding on Steam
Source: X (@rastalandTV)
Steam’s latest disaster shows how fast “fun little indie” can turn into “crypto-draining nightmare.”
The game was called BlockBlasters. It dropped on Steam in July looking like harmless retro fluff. But on August 30, a sneaky update laced with malware went live. The payload? Scripts that laughed at your antivirus, raided your browser, and looted your crypto wallets.
By the time researchers caught on, the malware had drained over $150,000 from hundreds of players.
The most brutal case? Latvian Twitch streamer Raivo “RastalandTV” Plavnieks. He’s battling stage-4 cancer and had raised money through streaming, leaning on the community to cover the crushing cost of his treatment. After downloading BlockBlasters during a live stream, everything changed. He watched $32,000 vanish, funds his followers had given to help him survive.
Valve finally killed the game on September 21, almost a month after the poisoned update went live. Too little, too late.
Behind every security breach, there are real people with real losses. For gamers and creators alike, vigilance online isn’t optional, its survival. Even the biggest gaming platforms can ship you malware if nobody’s paying attention and If you keep crypto or sensitive data on the same PC you use for gaming, you’re basically playing Russian roulette with your wallet.
The scariest thing about Silent Hill f? It’s not Silent Hill.
Image credits: X (@Silenthilll)
Konami’s Silent Hill ‘f’ feels less like a chilling return to the foggy franchise and more like an anime spin-off wearing a stolen name tag.
Forget the franchise’s trademark psychological dread, layered lore, and eerie otherworld. It trades them for a tale written by a weaboo that plays like early-2000s schoolyard horror where classmates secretly plot each other’s murders.
The “Dark Shrine” nightmare realm is repetitive rather than terrifying; the world is tiny and bland, and environmental text is left untranslated, leaving non-Japanese players at a disadvantage.
Combat’s dull, interface is clunky, and even after a 10-hour run and promises of extra endings, there’s no real connection to the series’ legacy. Honestly, the scariest part might be how far Silent Hill ‘f’ strays from Silent Hill.
“Yo pass the vape, I wanna play Doom”
Source: Aaron Christophel
“If it has a screen, it can run Doom”. An adage as old as 1993. I thought getting Doom to run on a pregnancy test was the end of it, but boy, was I wrong. Silly me.
Aaron Christophel, software developer and hardware hacker, managed to get the game running on the Aspire Pixo Kit. What’s unique about this vape is that not only does it have a small color display, it also has a 32-bit microcontroller unit, which lets the game display on the vape at a whopping 6 FPS.
But it’s not running natively on the vape; it’s being streamed to the vape from a PC via USB. It can’t run natively because of the 64 KB RAM (Doom needs at least 4 MB to run). So maybe it isn’t that impressive, but getting a vape to act as a secondary monitor is still an achievement.
Now, obviously, the next question is: Can it run Crysis?
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