$900 million lawsuit accusing Steam of overcharging gamers in the UK and ‘abusing a dominant market position’ will proceed after Valve loses appeal against it

Valve is facing a new legal headache as a tribunal in the UK has ruled that a lawsuit filed against it in 2024, accusing the company of using Steam’s dominance of the PC gaming marketplace to overcharge gamers and muscle out competition, can move ahead. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of children’s digital rights…

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North Korea’s crypto thieving went into overdrive in 2025, with one firm estimating it’s responsible for roughly 60% of the $3.4 billion stolen in total

North Korea has long been accused of being a major state sponsor of cybercrime, and new research from the crypto firm Chainalysis puts an eye-watering figure on the scale of these thefts in 2025: it estimates that the regime’s cybersquads plundered just over $2 billion of crypto and tokens. Chainalysis puts this down as a…

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North Korea’s crypto thieving went into overdrive in 2025, with one firm estimating it’s responsible for roughly 60% of the $3.4 billion stolen in total

North Korea has long been accused of being a major state sponsor of cybercrime, and new research from the crypto firm Chainalysis puts an eye-watering figure on the scale of these thefts in 2025: it estimates that the regime’s cybersquads plundered just over $2 billion of crypto and tokens. Chainalysis puts this down as a…

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New Vegas modder fixes one of those glaring issues you’ll never un-see once you notice it: Your pooch pal doesn’t have a sneaking animation

Odds are solid that Fallout: New Vegas is your favourite Fallout. Hell, odds are good that it’s your favourite game, period. It shouldn’t be, though. I’m sorry to tell you that up until yesterday, Fallout: New Vegas has been unforgivably bad. The dirt-worst. This is, of course, because up until yesterday New Vegas had absolutely…

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Cryptic rises again? Former CEO Jack Emmert returns to the Neverwinter, Star Trek Online, and Champions Online studio: ‘It was just meant to be’

One of the casualties of NetEase’s retreat from overseas development was Jackalyptic Games, an Austin-based studio run by veteran MMO designer Jack Emmert. That studio’s Warhammer project now lies in the unreleased MMO graveyard, but there is perhaps a silver lining for fans of the genre: Emmert has returned to his old job as CEO…

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The Darkest Dungeon board game fiasco is finally over, and as expected it’s ended in tears: ‘Mythic Games is no longer able to manufacture or deliver’ it, Red Hook says, so it’s giving away the game files to all backers

More than five years after a Kickstarter campaign for a board game based on Darkest Dungeon roared past its goal—ultimately finishing with $5.7 million on a $300,000 target—the project has collapsed. Red Hook Studios says board game publisher Mythic Games is not able to get the job done, so to make up for it as…

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