The latest Windows 11 update is borking some multiplayer games, but Arc Raiders’ developer has a quick workaround

If your games started unexpectedly crashing after getting a Windows update on or after August 11, you aren’t alone. And Microsoft says it’s looking into the problem. Microsoft reports the following “symptoms” popped up for “a limited number of games”: The game application becomes unresponsive The game application closes without notice The error “EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION” is…

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‘This is not a theoretical risk—it is an active threat’: The NSA, FBI, CISA and more warn of AI-assisted hacks against critical US infrastructure and facilities

A cybersecurity advisory jointly authored by multiple US agencies, including the NSA, CISA, FBI, DOE, and EPA, warns the owners and operators of industrial facilities of an “active cyber threat” to Siemens S7 programmable logic controllers. “The threat actors are conducting reconnaissance and capability development against US-based Siemens PLC installations using AI-generated exploitation scripts disguised…

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Redfall developers begged Microsoft to come back and finish its last patch: ‘I know we don’t work here anymore, but can we please release this?’

Redfall is one of the biggest industry disasters in recent memory—coming from Arkane Austin, a studio known for an all-time classic in Prey, the game was panned both critically and commercially. Even we, at PC Gamer, dubbed it the “first Arkane game we don’t like“. It also served as the death knell for the studio…

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Will the next Mass Effect actually release under EA’s new owners? ‘I’ll believe it when I see it,’ says former EA manager turned Newzoo analyst

This month, the biggest leveraged buyout in the history of private equity went through and now EA is owned by a consortium made up of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and the investment firms Silver Lake and Affinity Partners. We don’t know what EA will be like under its new owners, but Employees are bracing…

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GTA 6 cars need gas? OK, I’m finally on board

Grab a bucket, because GTA 6 is springing leaks in every direction. A group (individual?) called Cyberleek has been publishing seemingly genuine clips from Rockstar’s latest for two days now, giving us our first glimpses of gameplay a week ahead of the big Netflix reveal happening on August 27. There’s electricity in the air around…

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Stop Killing Games distances itself from GTA 6 leak manifesto: ‘Using illegal means to make a point is unacceptable to us’

A manifesto shared yesterday by the people responsible for the big Grand Theft Auto 6 leak contains a lot of language that will be familiar to anyone following the Stop Killing Games campaign, most notably a demand that any game with singleplayer content have an “offline fallback state” ensuring that games remain playable when their…

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EA employees brace for the worst under Saudi ownership: ‘Hard to feel good about being bought out by a regime that’s very much at odds with progressive society’

Saudi Arabia’s purchase of Electronic Arts, the biggest leveraged buyout in private equity history, officially closed earlier this month. With that deal done, a new Game Developer report has found that an awful lot of employees are expecting much more stringent control over what kinds of games they are and are not allowed to make….

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