October 8, 2025

A few months ago we found out ZeniMax Online Studios had canceled an MMO shooter it was developing under the codename Project Blackbird, one that had been in development since 2018 and executives apparently enjoyed playing. Turns out, even having Phil Spencer like your game can’t save you from Microsoft’s recent slash-and-burn approach to its…

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A new Game File report claims that Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin’s Creed game that would have been set in the US Civil War and the Reconstruction period that followed. According to Game File’s sources, the decision to cancel the game was made in 2024 in part because of the backlash against the reveal of the…

Despite all the talk about removing combat mods from World of Warcraft, players weren’t expecting them to be axed as early as the next expansion. The assumption was that it would happen gradually over time, but with the launch of the Midnight alpha, Blizzard has made it clear that it wants them gone as soon…

Four months after tacking an X onto the team-based shooter Rainbow Six Siege and converting it to a free-to-play model, Ubisoft has laid out its priorities for the future of the game, admitting that it hasn’t “communicated clearly enough about what [it’s] been working on” since the transition. Rainbow Six Siege saw a big boost…

Megabonk’s explosive success has unfortunately attracted the kind of people who love to ruin the fun. Over the weekend, its leaderboards were taken over by players with high scores that could only be possible using cheats. As a temporary solution, lead developer Vedinad nuked the leaderboards on Sunday in preparation for the fix that just…

North Korea has long been accused of being a major state sponsor of cybercrime. The isolated authoritarian regime uses hacking groups, including the infamous Lazarus Group, to target both large crypto companies and wealthy individuals, with the proceeds being used to prop up a country that, by any metric, is an economic basket case: the…

In late September, news broke about one of the most amoral cyberattacks you’ll ever hear of. A group calling itself Radiant hacked a software provider called Famly and used this to access data from a UK-based nursery chain, Kido, then began posting information and pictures of literal toddlers on a dark web site. It demanded…

The US state of Kentucky has filed a lawsuit against Roblox, which Kentucky attorney general Russell Coleman says “has become a playground for predators who seek to harm our children.” Roblox has denied the allegations, telling PC Gamer that it “has taken an industry-leading stance on age-based communication” and rolled out more than 100 safety…