Roblox’s latest legal entanglement is with the creator of the viral ‘Apple’ dance who took TikTok by storm: ‘Kelley is an independent creator who should be compensated fairly for her work’

Roblox has landed itself in hot water with viral TikTok choreographer Kelley Heyer, as she’s filed a lawsuit against the platform for using her dance without permission. Heyer is behind last year’s Apple dance—choregraphed to Charli XCX’s song of the same name—which propelled both her and the tune to fame, even leading Heyer to perform…

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We called its first cyberpunk setting ‘cooler than Night City,’ and now the studio behind The Ascent says it’s making ‘the kind of game that every developer wants to work on’

We had a lot of nice things to say about top-down co-op shooter The Ascent back in 2021. Former PC Gamer editor Andy Kelly awarded it an enthusiastic 84% in his review, and called its cyberpunk setting “way cooler than Night City.” Now Swedish developer Neon Giant is teasing its next game, but it’s not…

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Ultrakill publisher co-founder throws up hands, jokes ‘Tarkov has done irreparable f*cking damage to the game industry’ because even FromSoftware games are extraction shooters now

I have something to confess to you, dear reader: I’m not an extraction shooter guy. I wasn’t a battle royale guy, either. If I’m playing any sort of PvP game, I don’t find it fun to slink around in the shadows for 10 minutes only to have a heart attack when I’m finally confronted by…

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US-made chip prices could soar if the rumour that TSMC might charge ‘as much as 30%’ more for its Arizona chips pans out

The chip industry—as with many others, I’m sure—is, at least to onlookers like myself, in very uncertain waters of late, thanks to the United States’ upsy-downy-round-and-roundy ‘will he, won’t he?’ tariff position. The goal is ostensibly to have production shimmy on over to the US, but we’re now hearing rumour that even some chip production…

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RuneScape: Dragonwilds has fixed the classic survival crafting trope of endlessly chopping down trees thanks to an excellent spell system that does the hard work for you

When I was first shown RuneScape: Dragonwilds—Jagex’s answer to survival crafting games like Valheim and Enshrouded with its own Gielinor flavour—the star pupil of the whole presentation were most certainly the spells. They’re shortcuts to make some of the more tedious parts of survival crafting a lot more palatable: Spectral axes that can chop down…

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Tempopo review

Tempopo’s greatest strength is that its puzzles never frustrate me. Even when I’m stuck on them for an embarrassingly long time, trying to slot in one final piece to successfully direct adorable pink blobs—the titular Tempopo—as they rhythmically hop from tile to tile, gathering musical flowers and reaching the goal. Need to Know What is…

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