After 13 years, Path of Exile’s devs are finally ready to ditch one of its most iconic and frustrating mechanics

If you’ve ever seen Path of Exile you probably noticed that all its gear has red, green, and blue circular sockets on them. Those sockets are the basis of its character build customization: You don’t learn skills in PoE, you pick up skill gems and insert them into your gear. Skill gems–and multi-colored sockets—have been…

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Closed game studio returns to un-live service its game with community servers before shutdown: ‘We don’t believe Deceive Inc. should quietly disappear’

In a rare reversal of live service demise, a beloved but “dead” live service FPS will not shut down, but instead receive custom server support that ensures it’ll be playable forever. Long live Deceive Inc. The story of Deceive Inc. played out like countless other live service games. The PvP Hitman-like shooter launched to good…

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Grand Theft Auto 6 leaker who was given an indefinite sentence in 2023 because he wouldn’t stop hacking is now out of hospital and awaiting retrial

A man who was found liable for multiple high-profile hacks including a major leak of Grand Theft Auto 6 footage in 2022 has reportedly been released from the secure hospital where he’d been held since 2023, and is now in prison awaiting a retrial. Arion Kurtaj, who was 18 at the time, was found by…

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‘It’s not like natural intelligence is always all that great either’: Linus Torvalds addresses anti-AI sentiment in Linux development

Linux likers and AI dislikers, it’s time to raid the cutlery drawer and fork your favourite distro. Why? Because Linus Torvalds has declared that Linux is not an “anti-AI” project. Torvalds recently responded to a discussion about Sashiko, an agentic Linux kernel code review system, writing, “I realize that some people really dislike AI, but…

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The team behind Windows NT sent ‘black cardboard coffins’ and fake dog poop to their rivals back in the 90s, because nerds

No matter how smart you are, there’s always room for a little childish fun. Or an ominous threat to your rivals, one of the two. Ex-Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer interviewed the chief architect and designer of Windows NT, Dave Cutler, on his YouTube channel back in 2023, and I’ve just got around to the highlights…

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