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UK police are investigating the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl in a VR metaverse, in what seems like the first criminal investigation of its kind. The chair of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, Donna Jones, told the BBC that the complaint was made in 2023 and the inquiry is ongoing. The…
A report from the Korean Economic Daily says Nexon has been slapped with a fine of ₩11.6 billion ($8.85 million) by Korea’s Fair Trade Commission for changing the drop rates of items in MapleStory and Bubble Fighter “multiple times” between the years 2010 and 2021, without telling anyone that the changes had been made. Cubes,…
It’s been a long time coming, but the big day is finally here: Daggerfall Unity, the best version of Bethesda’s nearly 30-year-old open-world RPG, has now hit version 1.0 and is “considered complete.” We all talk about Skyrim and Morrowind and Fallout 4, but I would argue that none of them were as influential as…
One of the things I really don’t get about Starfield is the whole mech situation. Mechs are everywhere. There’s a bunch of lore about mechs being used in the Colony Wars that took place decades earlier. There are mechs you can look at in factories and junkyards and museums. There was even a shot of…
On January 1, Valve ended support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1, which means that users on those older versions of Microsoft’s OS will eventually not be able to use the gaming platform. “We expect the Steam client and games on these older operating systems to continue running for some time without updates after January…
In December, Twitch relaxed its rules to allow for “artistic depictions of nudity” in streams—things like “content that ‘deliberately highlighted breasts, buttocks or pelvic region,’”—as long as it was labelled as containing “sexual themes.” Two days later, following “community concern,” it chickened out and walked the changes back: “Moving forward, depictions of real or fictional…
Over three decades have passed since Tetris made its debut on the NES in 1989. Since then, a holy grail has lied just out of reach—the “true killscreen”. Now, a young prodigy has managed to reach it: after 34 entire years, a flesh-and-blood person has finally beaten Tetris. Some explanations are in order: a killscreen…
Why I Love This article first appeared in PC Gamer magazine issue 391 in December 2023, as part of our Why I Love series. Every month we talk about our favourite characters, mechanics, moments, and concepts in games—and explain why we adore them so much. I’m ten hours into Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty DLC…
There’s a new Samsung Odyssey G8 monitor in town. Yup, it’s OLED. Nope, it’s different from the Odyssey OLED G8 Samsung already sells. This one is a 32-inch 4K beast running at fully 240Hz. Quite distinct, then, from the existing Samsung Odyssey OLED G8 34-inch ultrawide with 3,440 by 1,440 pixels or the Samsung Odyssey…
Happy New Year folk, welcome to 2024! Hopefully your holiday season was filled with plenty of good food, festivities, and just the right amount of mandatory family interactions. Is it me, or did 2023 somehow fly by and also feel like the longest year ever? Regardless, we successfully battled our way through the months and…