UK gov fobs off a 10,000-strong request to stop payment processors nuking NSFW Steam games, says it’s a matter for the free market, baby

Furore erupted a couple of months ago when Valve confirmed that payment processors—citing a Mastercard rule—had pressured it to stop selling a number of adult games. Angry Steam users, and people who weren’t keen on payment processors deciding what adults are allowed to buy more generally, began hammering customer service lines with complaints and enlisting…

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CloverPit review

Need to Know What is it? A Balatro-like roguelike with a slot machine instead of a deck of cards.Release date September 26, 2025Expect to pay $10 / £8.50Developer Panik ArcadePublisher Future Friends GamesReviewed on Nvidia Geforce RTX 3080, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAMSteam Deck VerifiedLink Official site In a post-Balatro world, everything is a…

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Sorry, Nintendo’s Recent Pikmin Videos Aren’t Hinting At Something More

The first creation from Nintendo Pictures. Nintendo has announced that the recent ‘Close To You’ Pikmin short was created by its newly-established company, Nintendo Pictures. Posting on X, Nintendo simply said, “These are the first short films created by Nintendo Pictures Co., Ltd.Nintendo Pictures will continue to explore new creative possibilities through video content”. As…

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Discord says 70,000 age-verification ID photos may have been leaked in recent security breach that also includes names, usernames, emails, credit cards, and IP addresses

In a development that will come as no surprise to critics of age-verification legislation, Discord has just put a figure on its recent security breach in terms of the number of government photo IDs that have been compromised. And that figure is 70,000. In a statement to The Verge, Discord clarified that its own security…

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Review: Absolum (Switch) – Evolves Arcade, RPG & Roguelike Formats Into Something Fresh & Exciting

Absolumtly fantastic. Absolum is the brainchild of Dotemu, Guard Crush Games, and Supamonks, collaborators largely responsible for bringing about the renaissance of the scrolling beat ’em up with Streets of Rage 4 and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge. Dotemu’s first original IP, Absolum is a ‘rogue ’em up’ inspired by Capcom’s Dungeons and Dragons…

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Absolum review: Finally, a beat ’em up with depth

Need to know What is it? A 1-2 player beat ’em up in the roguelike structure of Hades, with hand-drawn art.Expect to pay $25Developers Guard Crush, Supamonks, DotemuPublisher Dotemu, Gamirror GamesReviewed on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, Intel Core i7-10700KF CPU, 32GB RAM, Samsung 870 Evo 4 SSD.Multiplayer Up to 2-player co-op.Link Steam There’s surprising rhythm…

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Intel announces XeSS 3 with multi-frame generation, putting it ahead of AMD in the AI-powered graphics performance race

At this year’s Technology Tour event in Arizona, Intel not only launched its Panther Lake CPU architecture but it also announced an update to its AI-powered performance scaling package, and it now brings XeSS on par with Nvidia’s DLSS, as Arc GPU users will soon get the benefit of multi-frame generation. Exactly how soon is…

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It’s not Celestial, but Intel’s new Xe3 GPU architecture looks like it’ll be ideal for the next generation of handheld gaming PCs

At this year’s Technology Tour event, Intel gave us a detailed insight into its latest processor design, codenamed Panther Lake. Boasting a new process node to unify the best aspects of Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake, the new chip also sports an updated graphics architecture, Xe3. While it’s not the Celestial graphics architecture we’re hoping…

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