The Linux community now has a succession plan for when Linus Torvalds checks out, after an apparently uplifting discussion about ‘our eventual march toward death’

The Linux Foundation now has a succession plan for the day when Linux creator and main man Linus Torvalds either retires, or is no longer with us. The initiative came out of the Maintainers Summit held in December 2025, which ended with a session on continuity planning. One thing I’ll say about Linux people: they…

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The call goes out for a ‘massive international strike’ at Ubisoft: ‘We are treated like children who need to be supervised, while our management gets away with lies and breaking the law’

Five unions representing Ubisoft employees in France have called for a “massive international strike by all Ubisoft employees” in response to the company’s recently-announced restructuring and return to office mandate. Ubisoft announced the overhaul of its studio structure last week, a process that includes the cancellation of six games in development (including the repeatedly-delayed Prince…

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Sorry if this jinxes it, but the latest Monster Hunter Wilds performance improvement patch seems like it actually improved performance

I’ll confess that when Capcom announced its multi-patch performance improvement plan for Monster Hunter Wilds, I was skeptical about just how much it would accomplish—especially when the first of the regimen’s updates delivered the same mixed results as Capcom’s previous attempts to address Wilds’ technical woes. The early details for this month’s PC-specific follow-up patch,…

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Bloodlines 2 2026 roadmap moves up expansion release windows slightly, and yes, Bloodlines 2 has a roadmap for 2026

Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 is a good game. I said it and I stand by it. Its biggest problem, as PC Gamer’s Toreador-in-the-streets, Venture-in-the-sheets Joshua Wolens so accurately put it, is the title: Calling it Bloodlines 2, rather than anything else that would safely distance it from the legendary original, was a massive self-inflicted…

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Code Vein 2 review

I’ve never felt more kinship with a silent protagonist than in Code Vein 2. Just like being stuck with someone rambling all about the Definitely Interesting details of their job, there my little make-a-me was in the early hours of the game, listening to a giant goth mom monologue a string of proper nouns—something like…

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Finally, the FPS I keep asking for: Deep combat, classic modes, and an honest-to-god server browser

FOV 90 (Image credit: Future) Welcome to FOV 90, an FPS column from staff writer Morgan Park. Every other week, I cover topics relevant to first-person shooter enjoyers, spanning everything from multiplayer and singleplayer to the old and the new. While the internet reckons with another premature hate campaign against a hero shooter that’s just…

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Hooray! Linux is GOG’s ‘next major frontier’. Oh no! It wants to ‘Actively use and promote AI-assisted development tools’

A few weeks ago, I sat down with GOG managing director Maciej Gołębiewski and new owner (and original co-founder) Michał Kiciński to chat about the venerable storefront’s future without CD Projekt. One of the ideas it was batting about? Checking out this whole Linux thing, since quite a few people seem to be jumping ship…

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There’s a hot new personal AI in town that can send texts, check your calendar, come up with business ideas, spend your money and leak your data—all depends on how you use it

Clawdbot—sorry, Moltbot—is everywhere right now, assuming your algorithms are vaguely tech-adjacent. It’s an AI bot that claims to be able to do stuff. Lots of stuff. Of course, alongside such extravagant promises are a whole host of potential security and privacy concerns. According to its website, which can still be found at clawd.bot as well…

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