Is it better to be a ‘patient gamer’ or is playing new games at launch just too enticing?

Borderlands 4 just launched and, predictably, players on Steam are already criticizing its PC performance. Meanwhile, the just-released Hollow Knight: Silksong didn’t raise any performance concerns, but gamers in China were dismayed to discover that the Chinese translation was botched. Those are just a couple of the reasons some gamers have chosen to reject launch…

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US DoJ puts $11 million bounty on ransomware king allegedly responsible for stealing $18 billion

The United States Department of Justice has placed an $11 million bounty on Ukrainian national Volodymyr Viktorovich Tymoshchuk—who also goes by the aliases deadforz, Boba, msfv, and farnetwork—accusing him of being the mastermind behind ransomware that has been used to attack over 250 US companies, as well as others around the world. The DoJ says…

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Gabe Newell waxes poetic about his love for the Dota 2 community in a special message for The International: ‘People talk s**t at me in chat’ and tell him to uninstall the game on a weekly basis

The finals of The International 2025, the annual Dota 2 world championship tournament, are now underway, and to get things started on the right foot Valve boss Gabe Newell shared a special message with fans: After all these years he still loves the game, even though a lot of you are pretty mean to him…

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‘It would have damaged us forever’: After the calamitous cancellation of Football Manager 25, what does FM26 need to deliver?

The contemporary football landscape has one thing in greater abundance than ever before: scrutiny. The sport is now covered 24 hours a day, every nugget of news sliced-and-diced across every platform there is, while things like the recent transfer deadline are the subject of countless live blogs and breathless studio coverage that often amounts to…

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