‘Roblox must do more to protect kids from sick and twisted freaks,’ Texas attorney general says as he sues Roblox ‘for putting pixel pedophiles and profits’ ahead of safety

The “let’s sue Roblox” bandwagon has grown a little bit bigger as Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has announced that he’s filed suit against the company “for flagrantly ignoring state and federal online safety laws while deceiving parents about the dangers of its platform.” Roblox has denied the claim, saying the Texas lawsuit is “based…

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OG Fallout artist Leonard Boyarsky says The Outer Worlds 2 almost had its own ‘old school Obsidian’ evil ending, but it took too much effort for too little payoff: ‘I love making these types of games, but it is very stressful’

I really love The Outer Worlds 2⁠—so much so that even after reviewing it, I’ve already started my second character. One thing that stood out to me, though, is that you can’t side with the Arcadia system’s resident collectivist surveillance state, the Protectorate⁠—you can’t even earn or lose reputation points with them like the other…

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My new favorite deep Windows lore: Microsoft once broke its Bluetooth driver code by sticking a ® symbol in the name of its own mouse

There’s something I find deeply funny about the use of copyright and trademark symbols in games. I get why these symbols are important in legal contexts, but, like, was it actually vital to display ® or ™ next to every character’s name in the Dragon Ball Z Budokai 3 fighting game on the PlayStation® 2?…

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Steam’s wider store pages are now live, and Valve says it tested them on ‘a tiny old iPod’ to make sure they’d still work on narrower screens

Steam has increased the width of its product pages from 940 pixels to 1,200 pixels. It’s a change that would go unremarked on for most other online stores, but this is Steam, the place we’ve been buying PC games since the 2000s, and Valve, a company from which we’ve come to expect things like 750-word…

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Halo Infinite is entering maintenance mode: ‘With multiple Halo titles in development, we’ll need our whole team’s combined focus’

Four years after its release, Halo Infinite is, well, not going to be so infinite after all. Developer Halo Studios (formerly 343 Studios) has announced that it’s done updating the game with new stuff as it focuses on other projects, like Halo: Campaign Evolved. The final update will arrive on November 18 and will leave…

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