The FBI put a $5 million bounty on the ‘Cryptoqueen’ last year but still haven’t found her, so take your pick: Russia, South Africa, or murdered on a yacht in 2018

In July 2022 Ruja Ignatova, the self-styled ‘Cryptoqueen’ behind a pyramid scheme called OneCoin, was placed on the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted list. Accused of defrauding investors of an amount estimated at between $3.6 to 4.5 billion, the Bulgarian-born Ignatova disappeared in 2017. In June last year came a new development: The FBI increased…

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Helldivers 2 director decides to kick off 2025 by wading into a conversation about DEI: ‘Make good games, don’t make a contemporary political statement’

After sparking a fury by saying developers should “make good games, don’t make a contemporary political statement,” Helldivers 2 creative director Johan Pilestedt now says he was referring only to commentary made “outside the theme of the game.” Pilestedt’s initial statement came in response to a user on X who urged him to “never add…

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Popeye and Tintin have entered the public domain, so I’ll just go ahead and start the countdown clock for our first Sailor Man soulslike

It’s a new year, and that means a new crop of iconic characters—some more than others—entering the public domain. According to Title 17 of the United States Code, once 95 years have passed since the creation of any “anonymous work, pseudonymous work, or work made for hire,” that work belongs to everyone. There’s something beautiful…

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The TDP of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 have been leaked, suggesting it’s a little less power-hungry than we thought, though still massive

Graphics cards are apparently just getting bigger and bigger, and the Nvidia RTX 5090 might just be the most power-hungry mainstream graphics card of the last decade, at a reported 575 W TDP. Over on X, leaker hongxing2020 reported the power consumption of the RTX 5090 in a cryptic tweet, and well-regarded leaker kopite7kimi replied…

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Marvel Rivals admits that it accidentally banned some players for trying to run the game in a different operating system, which isn’t cheating

Marvel Rivals community manager announced this morning that it has accidentally flagged a whole load of innocent players as cheaters and, as a result, banned their accounts all because of a mix-up in operating systems. “Recently, we’ve received feedback from players regarding an issue where some individuals playing in compatibility layer programs have been mistakenly…

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Ex-Bioshock lead Ken Levine says the problem with AAA games is how risk-averse they’ve become: ‘If you don’t innovate, especially in games, you start losing people’

Ken Levine, creator of the Bioshock series, has had a bit of a long road to walk in order to release his studio’s upcoming game, Judas. It’s been in development for at least eight years, after Take-Two shut down Irrational Games in 2017 and booted up Ghost Story Games thereafter. We didn’t hear much about…

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