Nintendo Schedules Network Maintenance For Thursday

No such thing as ‘too much stability’. Nintendo has scheduled 90 minutes of maintenance to its network services on Thursday 31st July. As noted by Gamereactor, Nintendo’s Japanese website has flagged eShop maintenance later this week — between 7 – 8:30am UK time — during which Switch 2 and Switch network services may be affected….

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UK secretary of state for science, innovation and technology says you’re on the side of ‘extreme pornographers’ and ‘predators’ if you want the Online Safety Act walked back

The UK’s Online Safety Act does, on the face of it, seem supremely flawed—for one, you can get past some of its age verification requirements with a picture of Norman Reedus. Or by just grabbing a VPN. Detractors state the act isn’t fit for purpose—not just because it’s straightforward to bypass, but because of the…

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Itch.io releases list of the adult content you can’t put on its store anymore after anti-NSFW crackdown, including stuff that’s not illegal but just icky

Online game store Itch.io plunged a swathe of devs into uncertainty last week when, in the wake of pressure from its payment processors, it frantically deindexed all adult content on its platform from its search and browse pages. In effect, devs woke up without warning to a world where they suddenly couldn’t make money from…

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The UK Government say it has ‘no plans to repeal the Online Safety Act’, in response to 380,000 strong (and counting) petition

On Friday, the UK Government rolled out new measures first introduced with the Online Safety Act 2023 that requires services to verify users’ ages to access certain content. Over the weekend, a petition emerged calling for its repeal. Today, said petition has been signed 387,330… 387,331… let’s just say nearly 388,000 times and counting. But…

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Intel’s next-gen Panther Lake mobile chip will be a portable gaming beast with 50% more Xe cores than Lunar Lake, according to the latest shipping manifest leak

Intel’s Lunar Lake mobile chips (shown above) actually have decent gaming chops. Which is why news of a significant graphics upgrade in Intel’s next-gen Panther Lake CPUs is so intriguing. According to a shipping manifest spotted by X user X86deadandback, Panther Lake sports 12 Xe3-spec graphics cores. That’s 50% more than the 8 Xe2 cores…

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