‘It’s a bittersweet victory’: Meta has been forced to stop ad-tracking one individual in the UK after settling a years-long court case

I think most of us have had that moment where we feel it in our bones that targeted advertising has overstepped. You’re innocently doom scrolling through your day and social media throws up an advert for something so weirdly specific it shouldn’t really think to serve you. I’ve had it happen multiple times, and it…

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Assassin’s Creed Shadows is a hit and Steam played a ‘significant role’ in that: 27% of activations were on PC and it’s the 2nd-biggest AC launch of all time

Gamers only want one thing: to put an end to the Warring States period and unify Japan beneath the wise consulship of Lord Nobunaga Oda, the Demon King of the Sixth Heaven. Or they might want to kill Oda, actually. I’m not sure. Depends on the game. Either way, Assassin’s Creed Shadows is, per data…

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Blizzard plans to revive WoW Classic Hardcore characters ‘at our sole discretion’, after DDOS attack puts major streamer guild OnlyFangs in the ground

World of Warcraft’s Classic Hardcore is sort of the ideal streamer game—high stakes that can manufacture some top-tier drama, an MMO everyone and their dog has probably played at some point, and a thick layer of nostalgia to keep the whole thing fuelled. Which is why OnlyFangs, a hardcore guild composed almost entirely of big-name…

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“You just have to make them think this world is real, and this world can hurt you”: The Outlast Trials devs discuss a changing horror genre and an insatiable need for scares

It’s been a great few years for co-op horror games. We’ve collected trash and trinkets in Lethal Company and REPO, and we’ve made vlogs for millions of viewers while we trek through abandoned buildings in Content Warning. But between these japes and jests, we’ve also had the challenge of making our way around the Murkov…

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‘Is this a practical way to play your Steam games? Nope, not even a little bit.’ But getting Steam running on Armbian and a single board computer really is a thing

Valve’s dedication to its portable PC SteamDeck has given us many surprising little side benefits in the PC gaming community. For couch lovers like myself, the improvements to big picture mode have been very welcome. However, by far the adaption with the biggest unintended effect has to be making Steam play better with Linux via…

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How a Microsoft exec managed to pitch Microsoft Word through the genius tactic of being able to actually use it in a ‘type-off’ demanded by clients: ‘I was the only one who’d actually been a secretary’

The GDC 2025 highlight for me was a talk by Monica Harrington, Valve co-founder and the company’s first chief marketing officer, about her long and storied career in tech. And like many of Valve’s earliest employees, Harrington came there from Microsoft, where one of her major responsibilities was marketing Microsoft Word and later the Office…

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Former Valve exec says the company struggled to sell Half-Life until coming up with the ultimate ‘one simple trick’ of marketing manoeuvres: slapping a ‘Game of the Year’ sticker on the box

One of this year’s GDC highlights was a talk by Monica Harrington, a founding member of Valve and the company’s first chief marketing officer, who went over her history with the company that brought us Half-Life and Steam. There’s a whole bunch in Harrington’s recollections to pick out: like when she gave her nephew some…

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US pressures Malaysia to stop banned AI chips potentially entering China by monitoring ‘every shipment that comes to Malaysia when it involves Nvidia chips’

The United States has come into 2025 swinging when it comes to foreign imports around technology. Not only has the Trump administration implemented new tariffs that have caused Japanese companies to stockpile on US soil, but has also talked about killing the CHIPs act entirely. Now it seems the US has turned its attention to…

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Today’s Wordle answer for Tuesday, March 25

Whatever your preferred Wordle winning method, we’ve got something here that can help. Keep it light with our multipurpose tips, designed to give every guess a fresh edge. Or skip straight to a guaranteed win with the March 25 (1375) answer if you like. Prefer something in the middle? Tuesday’s clue is here whenever you…

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