‘I’ve had so many projects that have been discontinued lately’: Nier creator Yoko Taro says he’s been working on plenty of games—but they keep getting cancelled before he can announce them

As one of the gaming industry’s most treasured oddities, Nier series creator and masked enigma Yoko Taro contends with the fickle patience of a fanbase that’s eager to know what he’s working on next. As reported by 4Gamer (via Automaton), Yoko said during a G-Con 2025 discussion panel with Bayonetta director Hideki Kamiya that—while his…

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Jailed British hacker who hijacked X accounts including Apple, Bill Gates, and Barack Obama—then used them for a ‘double your money’ Bitcoin scam—has to hand back $5.4 million in ill-gotten crypto gains

A Brit who hacked multiple high-profile Twitter / X accounts in 2020, and who was extradited to the US and jailed in 2023, has now been ordered to hand over £4.1 million ($5.4 million) in ill-gotten crypto gains (thanks, BBC). Joseph O’Connor, now 26 years old, hijacked over 130 accounts, including those of Apple, Uber,…

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Best AK-27 loadout in Black Ops 7

It’s hard to put down the M15 loadout in Black Ops 7, I’ll admit, but if you can, you’ll find what is potentially an even better assault rifle in the AK-27. Plus, since it unlocks at level 4, which is also when you unlock custom classes, you can get cracking with the best BO7 AK-27…

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Microsoft’s updated anti-cheating measures go far beyond Secure Boot, including ‘Remote Attestation’ for online system verification

I think most of us would agree that cheating is a scourge upon multiplayer gaming. Anyone who’s seen a blatant wallhacker or obviously-bot-assisted player rampaging their way across the map like Rambo after too much sugar would likely agree that something should be done. Well, Microsoft appears to be doing that something, as it’s laid…

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Silent Hill f fans reckon that its recent casual difficulty patch was inspired by the lead actor’s livestreamed struggles with the game

Silent Hill f recently received a big update that adds a casual difficulty, speeds up NG+ runs, and reduces the number of areas where players are forced to engage with combat. The patch seems like a sensible response to some general criticisms of the acclaimed horror revival. But fans of the series are convinced that…

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Stalker 2 has faction wars now: Enemies ‘can expand control over new territories’ in its 1.7 jumbo patch that also adds mega-hard mode and makes hiding in bushes meaningful

Just three days out from Stalker 2’s first birthday (doesn’t time fly?) GSC Game World has released another meaty patch for its unique, ambitious, and at times conflagrating shooter. Patch 1.7 is a doozy—you can tell because it’s one of those patches a developer puts out a video to mark—and it’s out now. There are…

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Phasmophobia devs say all that live service malarkey can do one: they focus on making ‘a fun game that people want to play because it’s fun’

Phasmophobia is one of those unproblematic success stories. It launched in early access with such a well-conceived and executed core experience that I breathlessly proclaimed it “the best ghost game ever made.” In the five years since, developer Kinetic Games has slowly but surely built Phasmophobia into the PC’s definitive spook-buster (to the extent there’s…

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Resident Evil Requiem’s producer assures fans that no punches have been pulled with its horror, but will still welcome player feedback: ‘My mental health is very strong—I am fine to read the comments’

Resident Evil Requiem is one of the scariest Resident Evil games I’ve played, and I only got to see a 30-minute demo at Gamescom, so I dread to think about what the rest of the game will be like. That’s due to a very deliberate choice by the developers to try and steer this next…

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