Washington Prime Is A New GZDoom Game Inspired By ’90s Thrillers Like Heat, Cop Land, And Clear & Present Danger

Featuring “high school (equivalent) FMVs” & a “realistic story”. If you happen to be like us and have a fondness for ’80s and ’90s action films and political thrillers, you’ll likely be just about as excited as we are about Ultra CDG’s new upcoming first-person shooter, Washington Prime. Developed in GZDoom, a fork of the…

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The Notepad++ website was hijacked by ‘malicious actors’ last year and security researchers are picking through the wreckage

Popular open source text editor Notepad++ experienced a significant security breach last year, and now its developer has given an update regarding the attack. It’s believed that, between June and November 10/December 2, 2025 (independent security experts and its hosting provider disagree on the exact timings), a shared hosting server was compromised, allowing attackers to…

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Highguard’s 5v5 raid is ‘here to stay’ after developer noticed half the playerbase jumped over to its experimental mode at the weekend

One of Highguard’s biggest criticisms has been that limiting teams to 3v3 makes things feel awfully lonely on a big ol’ empty map. Players asserted pretty early on that it’s a game much better suited to a 5v5 setup, something which developer Wildguard ended up entertaining a mere four days after release. It experimented with…

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Player housing tools are so good, WoW’s design director hopes the game will have quests where you build things in the future: ‘We really want to use them’

World of Warcraft‘s player housing has been in early access for some time, and players are already building star destroyers—that’s because Blizzard’s leant more towards the freeform side of things, allowing home decorators to scale, rotate, and freely clip objects into each other to their heart’s content. I got to speak to design director Maria…

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