X owner Elon Musk is facing renewed allegations that he is also the person behind Elon Musk-adoring fan Adrian Dittman. The claim came to prominence after screenshots posted by Dittman to 4chan (because of course it was 4chan) seemingly revealed that he has access to administrator privileges on X, although the authenticity of the image…
Against all odds our planet has made yet another shaky yet successful trip around the sun and it’s The Year Of Our Gaming 2025. Each year is a chance for a new beginning, even in gaming, so let’s quickly clean the stink of 2024 off us and start fresh. Scrub away the memory of the…
In July 2022 Ruja Ignatova, the self-styled ‘Cryptoqueen’ behind a pyramid scheme called OneCoin, was placed on the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted list. Accused of defrauding investors of an amount estimated at between $3.6 to 4.5 billion, the Bulgarian-born Ignatova disappeared in 2017. In June last year came a new development: The FBI increased…
The Witcher season 4—not to be confused with the also upcoming The Witcher 4 game—is likely headed our way this year. Filming on the season has reportedly wrapped, although all we’ve seen of the next leg of Geralt and Ciri’s continent-trotting adventures so far is a quick teaser of new star Liam Hemsworth taking over…
After sparking a fury by saying developers should “make good games, don’t make a contemporary political statement,” Helldivers 2 creative director Johan Pilestedt now says he was referring only to commentary made “outside the theme of the game.” Pilestedt’s initial statement came in response to a user on X who urged him to “never add…
Publisher Hooded Horse has announced that Manor Lords has sold over 2.5 million copies, which makes PC Gamer’s best city builder of 2024 an undeniable smash hit. Speaking in a recent interview with the BBC, Hooded Horse co-founder Snow Rui says that, even though the publisher realised there was interest in the game’s pre-release trailers…
It’s a new year, and that means a new crop of iconic characters—some more than others—entering the public domain. According to Title 17 of the United States Code, once 95 years have passed since the creation of any “anonymous work, pseudonymous work, or work made for hire,” that work belongs to everyone. There’s something beautiful…
Graphics cards are apparently just getting bigger and bigger, and the Nvidia RTX 5090 might just be the most power-hungry mainstream graphics card of the last decade, at a reported 575 W TDP. Over on X, leaker hongxing2020 reported the power consumption of the RTX 5090 in a cryptic tweet, and well-regarded leaker kopite7kimi replied…
Marvel Rivals community manager announced this morning that it has accidentally flagged a whole load of innocent players as cheaters and, as a result, banned their accounts all because of a mix-up in operating systems. “Recently, we’ve received feedback from players regarding an issue where some individuals playing in compatibility layer programs have been mistakenly…
Ken Levine, creator of the Bioshock series, has had a bit of a long road to walk in order to release his studio’s upcoming game, Judas. It’s been in development for at least eight years, after Take-Two shut down Irrational Games in 2017 and booted up Ghost Story Games thereafter. We didn’t hear much about…