The father of the Linux operating system, Linus Torvalds, says the reason why Windows has a rep for bugs and blue screens isn’t down to bad code but bad memory

OK, brace yourself for this one, peeps. Linus Torvalds, the software developer who created the Linux operating system and one of the most iconic figures in the indy computing scene, says the bad rep of the Windows operating system for crashes and bugs is not down to bad code. It’s down to bad hardware. “I’m…

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As if Disney Dreamlight Valley could get any more magical, the Wishblossom Ranch expansion adding horses has improved the entire experience more than I thought it would

As much as I love Disney Dreamlight Valley, getting around by foot can be tedious. You don’t really think about it when you’ve only got the valley to explore, as each of the biomes feel so close you don’t need to make a massive journey to get where you need to go. However, the sheer…

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Latest viral Game Awards tease could be teasing any videogame with hellish imagery from the last 70 years of the medium, but it’s probably Elder Scrolls Online

Game Awards host Geoff Keighley posted a cryptic image on X on Monday, showing a hellish monument in a desert locale, accompanied by the text regal.inspiring.thickness. If you plug those three words into a website called What3Words, a map appears showing a location somewhere near Joshua Tree in California. If you visit that location, you’ll…

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It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it

When EA announced in October that it will go private via a $55 billion leveraged buyout, a consortium of three investment firms were listed as buyers: Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners, and Silver Lake. A breakdown of the ownership between these parties wasn’t given at the time, but as it turns…

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This year’s Digimon Story Time Stranger may have looked like a traditional JRPG, but its commitment to raising weird little guys gave it an anarchic, constantly surprising energy that Pokémon couldn’t match

Life would be so much better if our digital world was more like the one in Digimon Story Time Stranger. Unlike real life, where logging on can feel like walking straight through the gates of hell, my first trip to the land of ones and zeros in Time Stranger is the happiest a game’s made…

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Like a Dragon creators won’t buckle to mainstream western tastes: ‘people start making strange things when they misunderstand what their business is supposed to be’

The Yakuza series has spawned well over a dozen games since it debuted in 2005, and I haven’t included any of the substantial remasters in that figure. As prolific as Ryu Ga Gotoku is, they’re also remarkably consistent: the same bonkers mix of melodrama and absurd humour is threaded through every one of these games,…

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