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‘We were at war with our customers’: Unity’s new CEO talks about arriving to the ‘insane’ post-runtime fee dumpster fire

Unity’s been having a rough few years—mostly due to its own foolishness, mind. Its prior CEO, John Riccitiello, couldn’t seem to stop walking from bad decision to bad decision like a door-to-door fridge salesman in the arctic. In 2022, he called developers “f*cking idiots”. Then, he apologised for calling them “f*cking idiots”. Then, he sprang…

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YouTuber Karl Jobst to pay more than $230,000 to Donkey Kong record holder Billy Mitchell in defamation ruling

An Australian court has ordered YouTuber Karl Jobst to pay over AU$380,000 (around $237,000 / £183,000) in damages to celebrity arcade gamer Billy Mitchell, relating to defamatory comments made by Jobst in a video published in 2021. Jobst is a Queensland-based gaming YouTuber with a focus on speedrunning and competitive games. Mitchell’s record-holding Donkey Kong…

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Today’s Wordle answer for Tuesday, April 1

Quickly un-stick your game with our hint for today’s Wordle, designed to give you a solid nudge towards Tuesday’s answer without spoiling all your fun. Have a think, spend a few rows trying out your ideas, and if you’re still no closer to winning just click through to the April 1 (1382) answer—sorted. I love…

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‘You must have played this before!’: Balatro’s creator impressed bystanders with his Balatro skills at GDC, and nobody knew who he was

Balatro developer LocalThunk is notoriously private. It’s not some kind of put-on: Wout van Halderen, communications director of Balatro publisher Playstack, told us at GDC that LocalThunk isn’t “trying to pull a Banksy,” he’s just “a person who doesn’t really like the spotlight,” and choosing to stay anonymous helps him manage the pressures of his…

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Rosewater review

Like all good Westerns, Rosewater starts on a train. Need to know What is it? Western point-and-click adventure game, and a spiritual successor to Lamplight City Release date: March 27, 2025 Expect to pay: $20 / £17 Developer: Grundislav Games Publisher: Application Systems Heidelberg Reviewed on: Windows 11, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060, AMD Ryzen 9…

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Swen Vincke says fan mods ‘shouldn’t be treated like commercial ventures that infringe on your property’ just hours before Wizards of the Coast retracts its BG3 Stardew mod takedown

Earlier this month, we covered the release of Baldur’s Village, a Stardew Valley mod adding more than 20 characters from Baldur’s Gate 3 that earned Larian CEO Swen Vicke’s stamp of approval. This morning, we reported how Wizards of the Coast seemingly decided that the best way to capitalize off that brand momentum was to…

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