‘No gay, no pay’: The RuneScape community is absolutely mauling Jagex’s new CEO over his decision to cancel new Pride Month events

RuneScape players haven’t relented since news broke a few days ago that new Jagex CEO Jon Bellamy—also known in-community as Mod North—was effectively killing off Pride Month celebrations in RuneScape and Old School RuneScape (OSRS) in order to “ensure the business is protected against those that would wish us harm.” Speaking to staff, Bellamy said…

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Alienware 34 AW3425DW gaming monitor review

Up front disclosure: I’m a sucker for 34-inch ultrawide monitors, I reckon they’re still the sweetspot for sensible-money gaming. With that in mind, you’d think Alienware’s newly updated 34-inch ultrawide OLED monitor, the Alienware 34 AW3425DW, is odds on for a very high score. After all, we loved the OG Alienware 34-inch ultrawide, the Alienware…

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‘Originally it was like, no, we are not interested’: It apparently took 5.5 hours of hardcore pitching to get Thanos in Fortnite—and as you know, the rest is history

It might be hard to imagine in our Fortnite-ified era of shooters, but Fortnite, once upon a time, didn’t have a single crossover to its name. The battle royale, added to the game in 2017, was once free of twerking Thani (is that the plural?), famous pop stars, and Peter Griffin. What’s more, there was…

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Intel’s mythical Big Battlemage GPU pops up in the MESA Linux driver making a launch later this year that little bit more likely

We’ve covered Intel’s purported plans to launch a bigger, badder version of its latest Battlemage GPU tech on several occasions. Mostly, those centred on a GPU codenamed G31 being spotted in Intel shipping manifests. Now, the very same G31 has popped up in the official MESA OpenGL drivers for Linux, and there’s even more reason…

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‘We have people working on fixing the goomba stomping’—Dune: Awakening’s PvP is getting dominated by packs of rabid ornithopter pilots squishing their enemies

Dune: Awakening’s PvP meta has evolved—on the sand-blasted lands of Arrakis, one weapon has been dominating all others. That weapon is ‘let’s repeatedly try and squish someone with our ornithopters like we’re the world’s most inefficient flock of seagulls fighting over a single chip’. As observed by Bombe18 on the game’s subreddit, vehicles in Dune:…

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Wikipedia pauses AI summary experiment after editors say it ‘would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source’

AI summaries are all up in our search engines these days, and I think it’s fair to say the response has been varied to date. The Wikipedia editor community, however, appears to have taken a strong stance on a recently proposed experiment by the Wikimedia Foundation to add AI-generated summaries at the top of Wiki…

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Cities: Skylines 2’s latest patch has introduced quays and piers after seeing players using makeshift substitutes: ‘We know how challenging they can be to build’

Cities: Skylines 2’s latest patch includes a bunch of new fixes, and introduces actual quays and piers, which means players no longer need to play Frankenstein with their shoreline. “We’ve seen how you have used the cut-and-fill roads to create makeshift quays in your cities, but we also know how challenging they can be to…

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