Arc Raiders reveals it’s been successfully targeting item duplication exploits as the percentage of players with ‘unusually high profit per minute’ drops below 1% for the first time in months

There’s been more duplication exploits in Arc Raiders at one point or another than I can shake several suspiciously identical sticks at. It’s the get rich quick scheme that a lot of raiders opt in to, there’s been multi-million rubber duck hauls and prisons made of just ziplines. It seems like there’s no end to…

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16-year-old MMO Star Trek Online is moving forward by tinkering with the past, unearthing and remaking one of its oldest storylines—and you can play it right now

In 2010, at the launch of Star Trek Online, the spacefaring MMO opened on the Klingon War. In typical fashion, the Federation was desperately trying to sue for peace, while a klingon ambassador was doing everything he could to thwart it. STO has always been a massive theme park full of nods to the classic…

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‘Not once have we been asked to verify our age’: Study suggests companies falling under Australia’s under-16 social media ban are failing to verify accounts

Late last year, Australia implemented a social media ban for those aged under 16, and reports since suggest that things aren’t exactly going as planned. For one, companies reportedly don’t seem to be actually checking some accounts. Reuters spoke to a team of software testers, who report that several companies failed to ask for proof…

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Arc Raiders has finally added ‘one of the most requested matchmaking features’ meaning players can now Jekyll and Hyde their way through lobbies

Understanding matchmaking in Arc Raiders has been something of a white whale for players, especially since we first got confirmation that aggression-based matchmaking did actually play a part in creating lobbies. Since then Embark has been more open about what actually goes into its matchmaking and is more responsive to players who asked for changes,…

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John Romero commiserates with ousted id devs as around half the studio reported axed, says he hopes someone is preserving its work like he did before he left

New CEO Asha Sharma hit the reset button on Xbox yesterday, taking out 1,600 jobs at once with another 1,600 cuts still to come before the end of the year. Very few studios escaped the scythe: even id Software’s legendary name did not save it, and it quickly became clear the studio had been swept…

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