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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“I Was A Big Fan Of Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing” – The Tale Of Feral, Lost Toys’ Abandoned Werewolf Game

We recently dug up some new artwork from the unrealized project. Earlier this year, Ziggurat Interactive rereleased the 2003 mech-based shooter Battle Engine Aquila across PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. Originally developed by Lost Toys, a studio created by a group of former Bullfrog developers, the game was only one of two titles the company…

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Battlefield 6 ditching ray tracing seems to have paid off because the latest system requirements say 4K at 240 Hz is possible

Battlefield 6 is just one day from launch and we’ve had a final spattering of updated system requirements. To be more specific, we’ve been told what the system requirements are to have an ‘Ultra++’ gameplay experience and, while these requirements are no joke, EA isn’t saying these will net you a mere 60 fps at…

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Sick of clicky-clacky keys? Google Japan offers a reminder that it could always be worse, unveiling a rotary keyboard concept

Unfortunately, I’m not of an age where a rotary mechanism inspires wistful nostalgia; for me, looking at an old rotary phone is a bit like looking at a fascinating evolutionary dead-end, a path not taken by tech. Well, Google Japan’s latest bit of whimsical concept kit seeks to reinvigorate the rotary wheel. The Gboard Dial…

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