‘There’s no reason for Discord to comply in advance’ with social media age verification laws instead of ‘fighting for their users’ says EFF expert

Discord’s plan to begin defaulting users to a ‘teen-appropriate experience’ unless they upload a copy of their ID or submit to a facial scan didn’t appear out of thin air: it’s a clear reaction to an international wave of legislation limiting access to social media and adult content without age verification. The Australian government has…

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Geoff Keighley shouldn’t be blamed for Highguard’s failure, Larian publishing boss says: ‘There are genuine villains in this industry but I just don’t see them here’

It’s been a hell of a ride for Highguard, in all the wrong ways, and it crossed an ugly milestone last night when developer Wildlight Entertainment laid off “most of the staff” just 16 days after the game’s release. Doubtless, there are plenty of reasons for Highguard’s failure to catch fire: Morgan Park probably nailed…

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We all knew the RTX 5090 ran hot but not like this: Chinese gamer records the moment their GPU catches alight

It’s every PC tinkerer’s worst nightmare: an electrical fire. One unlucky Chinese gamer recorded the moment they first powered on their rig with a freshly plugged-in Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090, only to capture the card sparking and igniting. The terrifying clip was first uploaded to BiliBili earlier this week and has since earned almost 100,000…

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Arc Raiders had nearly 1 million concurrent players in January, and around 6 million ‘weekly active users’, claims Nexon—putting the extraction shooter on par with some of the biggest MMOs

Arc Raiders has, by all accounts, done rather quite well for itself. Shooting past 12 million players worldwide back in January, a recent investor presentation reveals that 2026 got off to a bang for the hottest extraction shooter on the block (thanks, Eurogamer). A slide relating to the game itself claims the following—firstly, that Arc…

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Samsung announces brighter, more durable, utterly confusing ‘Penta Tandem’ QD-OLED monitor tech, so now I have to explain every OLED panel type to have it all make sense

Apparently jealous of AMD and Intel’s god-awful CPU branding, Samsung has cooked up a doozy for its latest QD-OLED panel tech for PC gaming monitors. We give you Samsung QD-OLED Penta Tandem, a brighter, more durable panel tech with a baffling brand name. Samsung says the new panel is 1.3 times brighter and twice as…

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