GTA 6’s souped-up Red Dead Redemption 2-style morality system will scale from ‘Professional’ to ‘Irredeemable’ so players can decide what kind of criminal they want to be

I may rob casinos, steal cars, and occasionally drive on the sidewalk, but I’m not a monster, and I don’t want the civilians in Grand Theft Auto 6 to think I am. Well thanks to the souped-up morality system there will be a bit of space for some redemption. Rob Nelson, Rockstar North’s co-studio head…

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Real-world disaster footage in Modern Warfare 4 opening cinematic will be removed following complaints from victims’ families

A Korea Herald report says the opening cinematic of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 will be edited to remove video clips of a real-world disaster in South Korea that left 160 people dead. The Seoul Halloween crowd crush occurred in October 2022 during Halloween celebrations in the city’s Itaewon neighborhood, when a crowd surge…

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Intel giving us a reason to be excited for Nova Lake: ‘We’ve had a bit of a hole in our portfolio for high-end desktop, Nova Lake filled in that gap’

Intel seems pretty confident about its next generation of desktop chips. The company’s top brass just got off the phone with shareholders to discuss how much money it made last quarter (TL;DR: not enough) but more interestingly noted a few tidbits to keep us gamers on the hook for a forthcoming announcement about Nova Lake…

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Intel shifts Panther Lake capacity to data center chips while the memory crisis wreaks havoc on PC market; still sold out of budget Wildcat Lake chips

The memory crisis is biting hard and prices are still worsening for memory and storage, which means Intel is having a tougher time selling computer chips to the likes of you and me. CEO Tan said in the company’s latest earnings call that “the next few quarters will be challenging for the PC market.” So,…

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Kane Parsons believes his interpretation of the backrooms is ‘minor cultural shorthand’ for the abstract space—just look at South Park’s recent episode

It’s always fascinating to see a niche aspect of the internet break containment and make its way into the centre of our collective cultural consciousness. It happened with cottagecore, putting “maxxing” at the end of any word, and it happened with the backrooms, largely thanks to the astronomical success of Kane Parsons’ Backrooms film. It…

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Compromised laptop could be to blame for record $6.3 billion cryptocurrency heist: Binance rushes to freeze stolen assets as experts blame North Korean group

Maybe I’ve been too harsh on those mandatory cybersecurity training courses that my company keeps reminding me to do. What looks to be the largest ever cryptocurrency heist may have started with an engineer’s compromised laptop, and the attacker got away with more than a couple coins: $6.3 billion in stolen cryptocurrency. The victim is…

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Reddit will switch to a ‘logged-in only experience’

Reddit will become a “logged-in only experience,” and the company plans to move fast, beginning testing soon in regions outside the US before flipping the switch globally. The popular community website—home to a great many official and unofficial gaming message boards—lost one million search engine referrals per week on average in October, CEO Steve Huffman…

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