‘It doesn’t feel like they’ve tried to copy and paste the game onto the screen’ says star of Ubisoft’s upcoming Watch Dogs movie

I’m not quite sure who among us is eagerly awaiting the big screen adaptation of Ubisoft’s open world hack-a-thon Watch Dogs. Even me, even considering I liked the first Watch Dogs and liked the third Watch Dogs and have a few pleasant if foggy memories of the second Watch Dogs. I’m sure I’ll watch the…

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EU tax officials confront the most pressing legal question of our time: If you sell RuneScape gold to someone and they use it to buy a magic sword, do you still have to pay taxes?

On September 11, advocate general at the Court of Justice of the European Union Juliane Kokott issued an opinion requesting a preliminary ruling from the Tax Disputes Commission under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania on a case concerning that most fundamental financial quandary with which all states, federations, and empires in their might…

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Steam celebrates all things boomer shooter with ‘Boomstock 2025,’ blasting up to 80% off the very best in retro-inspired FPS

Boomstock is here, baby, and if you are now wondering, “What is Boomstock?” I am happy to explain: It’s “a celebration of booming and shooting,” with new game announcements, updates, demos, and a very nice Steam sale on retro-inspired shooters. Earlier this year we rang up a list of 10 essential boomer shooters that every…

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A week after saying it was going quiet for the rest of the year, Palworld announces a crossover with the brilliant and bloodstained shooter Ultrakill

Only last week, Palworld developer Pocketpair announced that the hit survival game, which remains in early access, would be going quiet as it prepared for a full launch in 2026. Well well well… it looks like someone had a surprise up their sleeve, because today brought the announcement of an unexpected crossover, albeit with scant…

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Baldur’s Gate 3 now runs natively on Steam Deck thanks to a single Larian engineer who started the project after hours because he ‘really wanted a smoother version of the game on Steam Deck’

A new Baldur’s Gate 3 hotfix is live today, and it’s good news for Steam Deck fans: The update features a new native Steam Deck build, which Larian says will deliver “more stable framerate, lower loading times, and smoother gameplay” on Valve’s portable platform. Until now, Baldur’s Gate 3 made use of the Proton compatibility…

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X-COM’s creator wants to make a sequel to his spiritual successor, despite it being a ‘very difficult project’

Phoenix Point is one of the X-COM tree’s most interesting branches. Where Firaxis created a modern, flashy, accessible variation of the original X-COM, the series creator, Julian Gollop, took a different approach. Phoenix Point maintained the original’s complexity, elevated the strategic side of things dramatically and gave us tactical battles built on a detailed physics…

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Folks falling for LLM chatbots often end up with AI girlfriends ‘unintentionally,’ claims new study

A new study out of MIT offers a first-of-its-kind large-scale computational analysis exploring the how and why of folks falling for AI chatbots. The research team dove into subreddit r/MyBoyfriendIsAI, a community of folks that sometimes ironically, sometimes more seriously refer to AI bots like ChatGPT as their romantic other half. The team found that…

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Pocketpair announces Palfarm, a Palworld ‘cozy life’ farm sim spinoff where you can still give a monkey an assault rifle, but like, cozily

Since its launch, I’ve believed Palworld’s creature management systems would’ve made for a more interesting game if they weren’t buried under its preoccupation with OSHA violations. It seems I’m not the only one who thought developer Pocketpair was leaving that potential untapped, because yesterday the studio announced Palfarm, a farming sim spinoff in the Palworld…

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