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After multiple changes to US law that kept it copyrighted for nearly 100 years, 1928 Disney cartoon Steamboat Willie—which contains the first appearances of Mickey and Minnie Mouse—is now in the public domain. And what do we do when a beloved children’s character becomes available to use in new creative works? We make them into…
Following a drawn-out legal dispute with original publisher Nacon, Ukrainian studio Frogwares has announced that it is now the one true publisher of the Lovecraft-inspired detective adventure The Sinking City, and that a new version of the game “with all the latest bug fixes and optimizations” is coming soon. “Frogwares is now the sole publisher…
2023 is a year I have deeply mixed feelings on. The games industry is long past the point of sustainability—studios are bleeding talent, whole press outlets are dying out and it’s clear that something has to change. And yet the games this flaming trainwreck gave us this year are overwhelmingly good and practically innumerable. So…
Slay the Princess is one of our favourite unexpected hits from this year. It’s a choose-your-own adventure style narrative game about a dutiful mission to (you guessed it) slay a princess. I’m too much of a wuss myself, but PC Gamer senior editor Robin Valentine highly recommended it back in November, calling it the year’s…
A popular Slay the Spire mod called Downfall was compromised over the holidays, and used to push malware to users via a Steam update. The malware in question is called Epsilon and is used to steal information from infected hardware, and was present in the standalone version of the mod on Steam for around an…
CES 2024 is nearly upon us and the raft of long awaited products are starting to be teased at a considerable rate. Amongst the expected laptop refreshes and big screen bonanzas, however, there are always some more, shall we say, unusual products that steal the show for many. LG may have set the bar pretty…
You can’t swing a stick without someone bringing up AI these days. Generative AI is the hottest tech trend in 2023, but as awesome as it is to see Leonardo DaVinci’s Madonna busting out TikTok moves, it doesn’t exactly revolutionize my life. What really catches my interest is AI integrated into the tech I use…
While AI ethics continues to be the hot-button issue of the moment, and companies and world governments continue to wrangle with the moral implications of a technology that we often struggle to define let alone control, here comes some slightly disheartening news: AI chatbots are already being trained to jailbreak other chatbots, and they seem…
No longer content to reside on your desktops, consoles, phones, and tablets, videogames are now taking over movie theaters and streaming services. After some strong years on the backs of shows like The Witcher, Arcane, and Castlevania, plus movies like Sonic and Super Mario Bros, Hollywood is finally going all-in on adapting games. Will it…
While Dungeons & Dragons’ huge OGL stumble didn’t quite convert the game’s captive audience to the hundreds of other (very good) TTRPGs out there, it’s still caused a resurgence of people checking out other games. It also prompted several creators (like the minds behind The MCDM RPG) to start doing their own thing—both to capitalise…