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Old School Runescape player and streamer BTCs, known as the wealthiest player in the game with more than one trillion gold to his name, has been permanently banned from Runescape over allegations of real-world trading—that is, trading items in the game for anything outside of it, typically real money. It’s a stunningly expensive ban: Even…
Less than 24 hours since its release, Overwatch 2’s latest season has ignited angry Reddit threads and TikTok comments from fans who are unhappy with the value of its paid hero skins. Most of the criticisms target the $40 Ultimate Battle Pass Bundle which includes two highly-anticipated Diablo-themed skins: Lilith Moira and Inarius Pharah. The…
The Steam accounts of multiple game developers were recently compromised and used to update their games with malware. Fewer than 100 Steam users had the games in question installed when the malware was added, and they’ve been directly notified of the risk by email, according to Valve. The company confirmed details of the story, reported…
A common refrain from gamers caught cheating online is that they’ve been falsely convicted of a crime they didn’t commit. It’s hard to know who’s telling the truth and who’s just lying, because of course you’d lie if you were caught cheating. When we’re lucky, the lies are exposed in a dramatic, extremely funny fashion….
It’s nearly CoD season, which means that everyone eager to dig into this year’s game will have an opportunity to try out maps and multiplayer modes slated for Modern Warfare 3. A PS4/5 exclusive beta weekend has already come and gone but not to worry, PC players are getting our shot also as we have…
A dispute between Ark: Survival Evolved developer Studio Wildcard and the makers of Chinese strategy game Myth of Empires has come to a happy ending, as all parties involved say they’re now going to work together to “re-release” Myth of Empires on Steam and other platforms in early 2024. The trouble began in December 2021,…
It’s incredibly rude to play a game for over a hundred hours and then demand more stuff be added to it. And yet… that’s exactly what I’m gonna do. Despite Todd Howard saying Starfield was meant to be played for a long time, I’ve had my fill after just a few weeks. That’s an odd…
Paradox Interactive is taking a big financial hit on the turn-based tactics game The Lamplighters League, saying that sales of the game have been “a big disappointment.” Paradox also confirmed that significant layoffs had been made at developer Harebrained Schemes, but clarified that those layoffs occurred in the summer, a few months before The Lamplighters…
It turns out that being a one man criminal cleanup crew is hard work. I have spent a staggering amount of time virtually power washing filthy buildings in the past, which is why Crime Scene Cleaner piqued my interest as I scrolled through this year’s list of Next Fest demos. With a darker premise than…
2023’s best game about managing an underwater sushi restaurant is getting even better. The already ludicrously deep Dave the Diver got its first content update yesterday, bringing a surfeit of improvements to the undersea management sim and, crucially, introducing the spellbinding notion of the “Lobster Party”. The update arrived yesterday, and although Mintrocket had already…