‘This marks a significant step towards addressing anticompetitive behaviors’: Following a complaint from Opera, antitrust regulator launches an investigation into Microsoft Edge

Microsoft Edge: many a PC Gamer knows it as a stepping stone between them and their actual browser of choice—no matter how much the software pleads with you to reconsider. But rather than simply dismissing this as looking a bit desperate, the Browser Choice Alliance argues this is just one instance of ‘deceptive tactics‘ by…

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When Overwatch said it was returning to the story, I did not expect its most genius decision: Reworking maps for the fun of it

Overwatch‘s story is a bit all over the place; there’s no denying it. Nearly a decade on from the launch of the first game, we’re still more or less where we began—Winston’s recalling old agents—only, finally, there’s an actual villain: Vendetta’s Talon. Sure, we’ve had Talon, Null Sector and whatnot causing trouble in the lore…

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Today I learned Motorola was once developing a password pill that turns your body into an authentication token: ‘We have demoed this working and authenticating a phone’

Did you know that, for a brief few years, Motorola (or more accurately, Motorola Mobility) was owned by Google? If you didn’t know that, then you likely also don’t know that, in those two cursed years, Motorola showed off a password pill you swallow as a form of password authentication. Yeah, 2013 was weird. As…

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The best King’s Field-likes on PC

FromSoftware’s King’s Field was an astonishingly immersive RPG for 1994, a dark fantasy where every object was something that could be examined up close and from all angles. Every herb. Every skeleton. Every treasure chest and trap. These first-person visual wonders weren’t contained within some artificially restrictive turn-based RPG, tile-based dungeon crawl, or hemmed in…

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