Star Citizen studio suffered a data breach in January, and some players aren’t happy with the very quiet disclosure that only happened this week

Star Citizen studio Cloud Imperium has reported a data breach following “a systematic and sophisticated attack,” which it says resulted in unauthorized access to some of its backup systems, “including limited access to users’ personal data.” The studio says it doesn’t believe the breach constitutes a safety risk and no financial or payment information was…

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World of Warcraft: Midnight players found an empty campsite that references 2019’s planet-hopping puzzler Outer Wilds

At the edge of the world in a World of Warcraft: Midnight zone consumed by overwhelming darkness is an abandoned campsite. That campsite, as Reddit user Ban_Annerz realized, isn’t just any campsite; it’s a reference to the 2019 space exploration puzzle game Outer Wilds. For anyone just jumping into Midnight or taking their time leveling…

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Highguard is closing next week: ‘Despite the passion and hard work of our team, we have not been able to build a sustainable player base to support the game long term’

Just over a month after it launched, the axe has fallen on the troubled PvP shooter Highguard. Developer Wildlight Entertainment announced today that the game’s next update will be its last, and it will be taken offline on March 12. “Since launch, more than 2 million players stepped into Highguard’s world,” Wildlight wrote in an…

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Scott Pilgrim EX review

I like garlic bread. It’s not really a meal, though. Most comfort foods are hearty and filling, but few taste as good as even cheap garlic bread, which leaves me full in a comparatively hollow sort of way. Maybe I love it because beneath all the carbohydrates, garlic bread is nostalgic—and nostalgia is also craveable…

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The Sims announces a Creation Club-style Marketplace and Maker program enabling content creators to sell their work directly to players

Sims 4 players who want more stuff in their game will soon be able to “discover, purchase, and play” new content via the Sims 4 Marketplace, an “in-game destination” unveiled by EA today. And for those who prefer to make (and sell) that content, it also announced the Sims Maker Program, which will enable approved…

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Evil Dead’s Bruce Campbell reveals ‘treatable but not curable’ cancer diagnosis, but says ‘I am a tough old son-of-a-bitch’ and expects ‘to be around for a while’

Bruce Campbell, the actor behind Ash from Evil Dead and—most prominently in my heart—the tutorial narrator in the Spider-Man 2 videogame, revealed yesterday that he has been diagnosed with cancer. In a post on X, Campbell wrote that he had “a type of cancer that’s ‘treatable’ not ‘curable’. I apologize if that’s a shock—it was…

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Bungie unveils Marathon’s first season, confirming that, yes, it’ll wipe all your loot and progress every three months: ‘Each season of Marathon brings a clean slate for the whole community’

Marathon‘s weekend Server Slam has only just finished, but with the game launching in a mere three days on March 5, Bungie’s ready to talk post-launch plans, spilling the beans on Season 1 and how wipes will work. Marathon Season 1, running from March to June, is called Death is the First Step, which is…

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A Florida woman has been sentenced to 22 months in prison for conspiracy to traffic thousands of stolen Windows 10 and MS Office keys via their Certificate of Authenticity stickers

The US Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida has announced the sentencing of a 52-year-old woman after she was found guilty of “conspiring to traffic in illicit Microsoft Certificate of Authenticity (COA) labels.” Heidi Richards, a resident of Brandon, Florida, was sentenced to 22 months in US federal prison for her part in…

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‘Half the fans would want to hang me’: Leon Kennedy’s voice actor won’t say whether he’s Team Ada or Team Claire, but he does point to all that Ada has done for Leon

Since the dawn of time, people have been picking sides and fighting each other, Rome vs Carthage, Edward vs Jacob, the list goes on. But one battle that has engulfed the Resident Evil fandom ever since I can remember is the fight between who has Leon’s heart, Ada Wong or Claire Redfield. I wrote about…

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