2025

The Financial Times recently published an investigation into chip exports during an early three-month phase in the Trump administration, when export controls were being tightened to prevent the sale of high-powered US AI hardware to China. According to the FT, at least $1 billion worth of Nvidia GPUs were shipped to those sanctioned shores during…

It is with grim solemnity that I must share some terrible news: Destiny 2 has cheaters in it. Quite a lot of cheaters, actually—in fact, the majority of players in a top 100 ranking for the contest mode of The Desert Perpetual raid are stinkin’, filthy, no-good hackers, why I oughtta. As spotted by @aquativityy…

Today saw the full introduction of the requirements outlined in the Online Safety Act in the UK, requiring “robust” age checks for users to access adult content online. People have already managed to find ways around at least some of these verification requirements after *checks watch* less than 24 hours. Earlier today, our James stumbled…

I normally wouldn’t inform you of a public slapfight between a developer and X users, but unfortunately, given the absolute fury-storm surrounding generative AI technology, and the fact this whole debacle’s an illustrative point as to why all conversations surrounding it are tainted by ragebait, my hands are tied. Tim Soret—who got in deep water…

Stop Killing Games’ quest to get publishers to, get this, stop killing games trundles on. In fact, things are going quite well: the campaign’s EU initiative recently hit the 1.4 million signatures milestone, which should be enough—fingers crossed—to get it over the hurdle and off to the European Commission, which will have six months to…

While Nightreign’s 5 million players have clearly proven the Elden Ring experiment a successful one, the co-op spinoff has still had one glaring flaw: No duos. Today, we know when Nightreign’s original sin will finally be set right. Two-player mode is coming with patch 1.02, which will arrive in less than a week. Bandai Namco…