Valve’s former economist, now a member of parliament in Greece, is being put on trial for promoting drug use because he admitted to taking ecstasy 36 years ago

Yanis Varoufakis is probably the only Greek parliamentarian with a background in the videogame industry, having been the economist-in-residence at Valve before he was elected in 2015 and then made finance minister. Nowadays he’s general secretary of MeRA25, the European Realistic Disobedience Front, a political party he founded as part of the Democracy in Europe…

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Resident Evil Requiem guide: Puzzle solutions, locked doors, collectibles, and more

Doors with mysterious slots and arcane runes? Tantalizingly locked safes? Giant monsters roaming the hallways? Yep: This is Resident Evil, all right. As PC Gamer’s Elie Gould highlighted in their glowing Resident Evil Requiem review, this entry in the series attempts a delicate balancing act, delivering the series’ classic puzzles and exploration as well as…

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An AI-generated review of Resident Evil Requiem written by a fake ‘iGaming and sports betting analyst’ briefly hit Metacritic

A review of Resident Evil Requiem has been pulled from Metacritic after humans noticed it was AI-generated. UK-based site Videogamer.com published the review by author Brian Merrygold, who doesn’t seem to exist, and whose Videogamer profile picture carries the filename ChatGPT-Image-Oct-20-2025-11_57_34-AM-148×148.png. He is nevertheless described as “an experienced iGaming and sports betting analyst with a…

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If you’re hoping to make friends in Marathon like you can in Arc Raiders, expect a knife in the back

MORGAN PARK, STAFF WRITER (Image credit: Future) This week: Finished the original Mass Effect for the first time ever, and wished I liked it more. If the opening hours of Marathon’s server slam playtest are any indication, Bungie’s latest won’t be the surprisingly cooperative extraction shooter Arc Raiders has become. Despite the presence of features…

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The next Lego Batman recreates a memorable scene from the 1989 movie, complete with Prince soundtrack

The superhero-themed Lego games are unusual in that they’re rarely homages to specific movies—unlike Lego Star Wars or Lord of the Rings or Indiana Jones, the Lego Batman games tell original stories, with a few nods to the comics and movies that inspired them, rather than recreating whole scenes in slapstick-brick form. That’s changing with…

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Netflix isn’t going to buy Warner Bros after all, meaning Paramount is set to take HBO, Warner Bros Games, and the rest

A few months ago, it looked probable that Netflix was going to acquire Warner Bros Discovery—owner of HBO, Cartoon Network, Warner Bros Games, and much more—but a hostile takeover bid from Paramount Skydance has won out. On Thursday, the Warner Bros Discovery board deemed a $31-per-share offer from Paramount Skydance superior to the Netflix deal,…

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