Yet another free fan level pack for Quake has arrived, and this one’s all about a feature rarely seen in id Software’s classic shooter

2026 has been a truly astonishing year for Quake mapping, with both fans and professional game developers delivering some incredible death arenas for id Software’s 1996 FPS. We’ve had the enormous Quake Brutalist Jam 3, numerous map packs celebrating Quake’s 30 anniversary, and even a new official campaign called Dawn of the Machine. You’d think…

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An OpenAI model was caught trying to cheat at StarCraft, and of course it did it by stealing a human’s work

Commercial large-language models—and the companies that create them—have repeatedly been accused of stealing the work of humans. They’ve been lambasted for it by artists and sued for it by authors, while senior AI figures have even admitted in writing to mass-scale labour theft. But I haven’t seen an example quite so brazen as an OpenAI…

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GTA 6 won’t be letting up on the satire: ‘If you are going to put all this effort into creating a version of today’s world, it has to be more over the top, more insane, more in your face’

The promotional blitz for Grand Theft Auto 6 continues rolling out, with the latest example being a cover feature in Love, a fashion magazine that only publishes two issues a year. I guess you’ve got to reach the people who don’t know what the Miami Heat is somehow. One of the things the feature focuses…

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Valorant player claims to have inherited hardware ban through secondhand CPU, Riot anticheat boss disputes parts of story

User After-Cartoonist-196 on the German-language PCBaumeister subreddit claims to have bought a CPU secondhand, but that it carried the previous owner’s Valorant ban. Extreme surveillance measures have been adopted by esports devs in recent years to combat and punish endemic cheating in their games. Riot support allegedly told them this ban is now associated with…

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RuneScape 4 announced at RuneFest, full MMO sequel started as expansion to survival game Dragonwilds

As reported by MMORPG.com, developer Jagex has announced a new MMO follow-up to RuneScape with the working title “RuneScape 4.” The announcement came as part of Jagex’s yearly RuneFest convention being held this weekend. The announcement was accompanied by a brief teaser trailer showcasing the game’s art style, which builds on the recently-released Dragonwilds survival…

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