Assassin’s Creed franchise boss leaves Ubisoft just 7 months after heading up one of the best-selling games in the history of the series

Ubisoft has confirmed that Assassin’s Creed boss Marc-Alexis Côté has left Ubisoft after more than 20 years at the company, a stretch that saw him climb from a software engineer on PSP games to vice president and executive producer of the Assassin’s Creed franchise. Côté’s departure, initially reported by IGN, comes just two weeks after…

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Team Group has built the world’s first external SSD with built-in Apple-based location tracking and it’s padlock-shaped

I’ve got a routine for locating my devices when I leave the house. Phone, keys, battery pack, etc. Still, despite my best attempts at organisation, I still misplace the odd item—which is why I’m interested in the newly-announced Team Group T-Create Expert P34F, complete with built-in location tracking. The world’s first external drive to feature…

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How to use the Boombox in Megabonk

In Megabonk, the Boombox is one of many props you can find lying around the Forest map. Though when you first find one it doesn’t actually do anything. Well, other than blasting out a funky little ditty. The boomboxes in the forest are just collectibles, but you’ll need them to unlock the actual Boombox in…

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Motorslice is a shot of liquid nostalgia for the PS1-era action platformers I was too young to play—with a dash of Shadow of the Colossus in there for good measure

I was born around the time the PlayStation 1 came out, which means that my younger years were mostly spent playing games like Spyro: The Dragon. But occasionally, I’d get my hands on a demo disc for some game that was a little too adult for me. Not in the smutty sense, but in terms…

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Ball X Pit review

Need to Know What is it? A Breakout-inspired roguelike with city-building elements and no sense of restraint.Release date October 15, 2025Expect to pay $15 / £13Developer Kenny SunPublisher Devolver DigitalReviewed on Nvidia Geforce RTX 3080, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAMSteam Deck VerifiedLink Official site There are certain games where you can tell immediately that…

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Bungie executes spectacular U-turn by removing new currency it just added to Destiny 2, desperately bestows 777,777 unstable cores on all players for the apology tour

Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate was released on July 15, 2025, and ever since then developer Bungie has been fire-fighting one of the expansion’s many unpopular additions: unstable cores. Forgive the Destiny jargon, because this thing loves an in-game currency, but unstable cores are how you infuse gear, increasing its power level beyond the…

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Cozy witch-life sim Witchbrook is delayed to 2026 ‘to ensure the world feels rich, immersive, and alive’

Witchbrook, the upcoming cozy life sim about going to witch college—think Stardew Valley meets Harry Potter except you’re a witch instead of a wizard, and no, I’m not clear on the distinction—has been delayed. After setting a release window of winter 2025 earlier this year, developer Chucklefish now says it needs more time to get…

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‘Systems that have a secure boot process, in reality, do not’: Major backdoors have been discovered in Framework Linux machines and it might just be the tip of the iceberg

Firmware security company Eclypsium has claimed that 200,000 Framework laptops and desktops that are running Linux have shipped with “what can only be described as signed backdoors.” This is because they’ve shipped with UEFIs that allow memory read/write access that can apparently be used to compromise Secure Boot. And apparently “this situation is not unique…

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A lawyer caught using AI citations and quotes in a Supreme Court legal case has been called out by a judge for defending themselves with, err, AI citations and quotes

For fans of real-life legal drama, I’ve got a doozy for you. An attorney in a New York Supreme Court legal case was accused by a plaintiff and their lawyers of providing “inaccurate citations and quotations” that appeared to be “hallucinated” by an AI tool. When said lawyer opposed the claims, they were then accused…

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