Valve applies to use ‘Steam Frame’ as a trademark for a new console as speculation over a mythical next-gen Half-Life game continues

Remember Fremont, that supposed SteamOS device from Valve that popped up in Geekbench’s CPU results and according to some sources is a new console designed to connect to TV sets and running AMD CPU and GPU hardware? Well, now Valve has trademarked “Steam Frame” a new brand for use with gaming consoles and peripherals. The…

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RuneScape boss says he killed Pride events to keep things going ‘as apolitically as possible,’ which doesn’t sound very apolitical to me

Jagex CEO Jon Bellamy—appointed in March—drew fire earlier this year when an anonymous employee accused him of kowtowing to the Trump administration’s assault on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives with a decision to dramatically scale back Pride Month celebrations in RuneScape and Old School RuneScape. Understandably, that decision sparked ire, as did Bellamy’s attempts…

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Hacker jacks into Nexon game, causes a ‘Koyuki apocalypse’ by copy-pasting their favourite anime girl everywhere, forces 6 hours of emergency maintenance

I always enjoy it when someone with great power decides to use it for great mischief, rather than great responsibility. As is the case of the hacker that wreaked havoc in Nexon’s online RTS, Blue Archive, late last week. As spotted by Automaton, said hacker tapped into the game’s systems to, and I am being…

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I’ve already spent hours making builds, but I’m worried Borderlands 4’s endgame isn’t going to give me anything meaningful to do with them at launch

Rory Norris, Guides Writer (Image credit: Future) Last week I was: putting off playing Battlefield 2042 just to earn cool cosmetics in Battlefield 6, and eventually caved in. This week I’ve been: planning builds for every single skill tree in Borderlands 4, hoping it would help me pick a character, but actually leaving me more…

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‘It’s been out for years!’: 11 years in, people are still asking Bethesda when The Elder Scrolls Online is coming out

To hear my fellow Morrowboomers tell it, The Elder Scrolls Online might—secretly, quietly—be the true heir to the lore-heavy weirdness that made The Elder Scrolls 3 so beloved. Unfortunately, I have one principle and it’s ‘avoid human contact as much as possible,’ so I’ll never find out if that’s true or not. But with how…

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