Teenage Grand Theft Auto 6 hacker given an indefinite sentence in a secure hospital due to his ‘intent to return to cybercrime as soon as possible’

A BBC report says that the 18-year-old hacker who was found responsible for committing a series of attacks on tech firms that included the theft and leak of Grand Theft Auto 6 footage in 2022 has been sentenced to an indefinite period in a secure hospital. Arion Kurtaj was found responsible for the attacks on…

Read More

Melvor Idle, the Runescape-inspired idle game with an ‘overwhelmingly positive’ rating, is free on the Epic Games Store

The next free game in the Epic Game Store’s Holiday Sale giveaway-a-thon is Melvore Idle, an “idle/incremental game” inspired by Runescape that blends casual click-here gameplay with a surprising level of complexity. Melvor Idle mimics Runescape’s skill system in many ways, and in fact it’s published by Jagex, which picked up the game in 2021….

Read More

Dough Spectrum One (Gorilla Glass) review

The Dough Spectrum One has been one of my favourite high-refresh 4K gaming monitors since it first launched onto the market under the original Eve brand. Since then we’ve seen a second version with a glossy coating over the panel, sharpening the contrast and making its colours pop and enhancing its HDR experience. Now we’ve…

Read More

After struggling to finish Divinity: Original Sin 2 the first time, I’ve fallen in love with Larian’s previous hit RPG⁠—and it isn’t just the Baldur’s Gate 3 afterglow

After my Baldur’s Gate 3 bonanza in August and September, I was Baldur’s Gate 3 hungover, and needed the videogame equivalent of a Full English Breakfast to fill the Baldur’s Gate 3-shaped hole in my being. I turned to Larian’s previous RPG hit, Divinity: Original Sin 2. I’d known I had to give our 2017…

Read More

‘Damn—that’s cool!’ FF14’s composer gives the nod to Alan Wake 2’s surprise musical number—which tracks, given he’s also a master of the left field

Alan Wake 2’s captured the imagination of the gaming public for a lot of reasons—it’s downright gorgeous, but it also has Remedy’s penchant for blending genres, deftly mixing comedy and horror. This habit hits a high-point with Herald of Darkness, an in-game track so popular it was performed live at The Game Awards this year….

Read More