One of the worst case scenarios for ID age verification is already here, with a Discord breach compromising some users' data

While the hackers did not gain access to Discord directly, some users' data was impacted by the breach⁠—specifically data shared with Discord's Customer Support and Trust & Safety teams, including ...

Dressmaker is my new favourite cosy game, even if my clients give me absolutely nothing to work with

October may be known as the scariest gaming month of the year, as a whole host of horror games are set to release just in time for Halloween, but in my book it's also the first cosy month. As daylight ...

Dying Light: The Beast players have killed enough zombies in two weeks to equal a quarter of the world's population

Dying Light: The Beast has only been out for about two weeks—but for players, that's been more than enough time to slice and dice a record number of zombies to un-undeath. According to developer ...

Kingmakers, the game about bringing modern weapons to medieval battlefields, gets delayed just 5 days ahead of launch, and there's no new release date

Just five days before it was set to launch into early access on Steam, the medieval-modern combat sim Kingmakers has been delayed—and, somewhat worryingly, it doesn't have a new release target.
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Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title'

Ah, Peter Molyneux. The games industry's premier promiser taught me a valuable lesson when I was young: never believe in anything. Ironically, he did that with Fable 2—generally recognised to be one ...

A slot machine for gags disguised as a Vampire Survivors-like is taking over Steam, and I'm just as addicted to pulling the lever as the other 90K people playing it

Tyler has covered videogames and PC hardware for 15 years. He regularly spends time playing and reporting on games like Diablo 4, Elden Ring, Overwatch 2, and Final Fantasy 14. While his specialty is ...
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Fabulous news everyone: Market analyst says the AI bubble is 17X bigger than the dotcom goldrush, and 4X larger than the subprime bubble that caused the 2008 crash

The AI sector isn't just a bubble, says one senior market analyst: It's the single biggest bubble the markets have ever seen, the bubble of bubbles if you will, a bubble so large it looms over the ...

'The industry isn't dying, it's splitting into two different models': What experts are saying about the EA buyout

What will EA's new owners do with it? Lean on its big live service games to pay off that $20 billion in debt, for one thing.
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All-women Counter-Strike 2 pro league ESL Impact will halt operations at the end up its upcoming finals

FPS Splitgate 2 is going back into beta: 1047 will keep the floundering FPS online and lay off more staff as it goes back to the drawing board FPS Counter-Strike 2 invents a new way to monetise guns ...
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Vampire Survivors-like Megabonk makes megabucks, selling a million copies in 2 weeks, and currently has more daily players than Borderlands 4 on Steam: 'I'll be eating ...

Our appetite for games like Vampire Survivors—dropping you into reverse bullet hells where your very existence is enough to slaughter wave after wave of enemies—has so far been unquenchable. We've ...
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The 43rd Golden Joystick Awards shortlist is out, and just looking at the indie list alone, I can tell it's going to be a tough year

The 43rd Golden Joystick Awards' shortlist has just been revealed, and the voting is now open, but the hardest part has only just begun. This year, there are 21 categories, such as PC Game of the Year ...

I've become obsessed with building tiny houses for singing villagers in cosy decorating sim Twinkleby, which includes getting rid of the difficult ones by throwing their bags ...

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