Switzerland trials ditching Microsoft and using free and open-source software, available for ‘around 3,000 employees’ from the end of 2027

Microsoft has benefited from its services being used by many different governments and state agencies around the world. In many places, it’s become ubiquitous. Some aren’t happy about that, however, not least because it keeps you locked into an ecosystem that Microsoft can dictate the price for. As such, some states around Europe have been…

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Steam may have leaked achievements for countless forthcoming PC games via a third party site, including Persona 6, Ace Combat 8, and even some unannounced games

Exophase, a site dedicated to tracking achievements for games across all major platforms including Steam, appears to have been flooded with a bunch of achievements lists it really shouldn’t have yet. These include a huge—and importantly, yet to be unverified—list of major forthcoming games including Persona 6, Deus Ex Remastered, Horizon Hunters Gathering, Judas, Kingdom…

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Thousand Hells is a ‘tactical narrative’ feast of infernal storytelling, but its defeats can feel brutal

In Thousand Hells: The Underworld heists, I’ve sort of taken on the role of the dad in that one tweet about feeding cats to coyotes. But rather than serving up pets to jackals, I’m dutifully feeding bands of doomed adventurers into the psychological, corporeal, and spiritual wood chipper of the “tactical narrative” game’s bespoke hellscapes….

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Inspired by the success of games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, French president Emmanuel Macron declares ‘videogames are part of our culture’ and announces a new international gaming festival

One of the biggest videogames of 2025 was Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, a French JRPG that sold millions of copies, won armloads of awards, and earned not just one but two separate shout-outs from French President Emmanuel Macron. It must’ve made an even bigger impression on him than it first appeared, as over the weekend…

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Breaking Benjamin frontman pauses concert to rant about Fallout 4 modding beef: ‘There was a modder in the community that was really mean to me’

Local Man Benjamin Burnley interrupts a Breaking Benjamin concert with a rant about his True First Person 1.2 Fallout 4 mod from r/Fallout An amazing scene played out over the weekend at a Breaking Benjamin concert in Holmdel, NJ, as captured by Reddit user im_all_ears (embedded above). Band frontman Benjamin Burnley spent over four minutes imploring the…

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Just days after The Tetris Company warned that ‘we take copyright infringement very seriously,’ the Tetris clone in the White House Arcade suddenly disappears

Last week, The White House, the seat of power in a country that really has better things to be doing, rolled out a virtual arcade containing five very bad videogames, including one based on the famed block-stacking game Tetris. Unlike what we’ve seen in past instances where videogame properties were used without permission in White…

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Over 1,000 cut voice lines from Resident Evil 4 and Requiem reveal more about Leon Kennedy, the zombies he fights, and a lowkey bromance

Resident Evil is one of those series which rewards nosey players. There’s always notes, recordings, and pictures hidden in the cracks and crevices, all of which give players more info. Whether that be the structural integrity, of Mr. X’s trench coat or the fact that Grace Ashcroft has absolutely zero social life. But it’s not…

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