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…

On February 13, 2026, OpenAI will be retiring a number of its LLMs from ChatGPT in favour of its most recent model, GPT-5.2. For most users, a small change. However, those who claim to be in relationships with AI companions on these older models are left looking for somewhere new to put them up. GPT-4o…

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…

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…

The third hero of the new batch coming to Deadlock is none other than Silver, the bounty-hunting werewolf, as she won the latest round of voting. I would just like to thank everyone who voted, and, of course, myself for not only using all my votes on Silver but also for canvassing in every game…

Season 2 of Amazon’s Fallout TV show is really forcing Lucy to slog through miles of moral grey area but you don’t need to wade through temporal grey area to get to the season finale. Fallout season 2 episode 8 premieres on February 3, 2026 and it’s starting a few hours earlier than most of…

I don’t mean to overreact, but someone needs to stop Skyrim design lead Bruce Nesmith before I actually start crying. The ex-Bethesda dev’s been on a tear of late, chatting about everything from Todd Howard’s tendency to “seagull” around the studio to his take on why Bethesda shouldn’t ditch its venerable old in-house engine. That’s…