The Game Awards 2025 nominees are here, and—surprise—Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was nominated for every qualifying category

With less than a month to go before Geoff Keighley’s combination accolade blitz and advertising bombardment, The Game Awards has just announced its 2025 slate of nominees, determined by a yearly panel of critics, journalists, and industry personalities. And it is, without a doubt, the most French set of TGA nominations to date. If you’ve…

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Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick says gaming is ‘moving towards PC’ as the industry shifts away from closed systems, but we still don’t have a GTA 6 announcement

I’ve been around long enough to remember a time when “PC gaming is dying” was something people said without irony: A declaration that the convenience and power of consoles would soon put an end to the headaches and expense of playing games on PC. It didn’t work out that way, of course, and these days…

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‘Hytale is saved’: Riot sells cancelled game back to original co-founder, who promises to take it ‘back to the original vision for Hytale’

Five months after cancelling the development of Hytale and closing the studio working on it, Riot Games has sold the whole thing back to original co-founder Simon Collins-Laflamme. And yes, that means work on the game has resumed: Collins-Laflamme said more than 30 former developers “who know this game inside and out” have been brought…

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‘I’ve had so many projects that have been discontinued lately’: Nier creator Yoko Taro says he’s been working on plenty of games—but they keep getting cancelled before he can announce them

As one of the gaming industry’s most treasured oddities, Nier series creator and masked enigma Yoko Taro contends with the fickle patience of a fanbase that’s eager to know what he’s working on next. As reported by 4Gamer (via Automaton), Yoko said during a G-Con 2025 discussion panel with Bayonetta director Hideki Kamiya that—while his…

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Jailed British hacker who hijacked X accounts including Apple, Bill Gates, and Barack Obama—then used them for a ‘double your money’ Bitcoin scam—has to hand back $5.4 million in ill-gotten crypto gains

A Brit who hacked multiple high-profile Twitter / X accounts in 2020, and who was extradited to the US and jailed in 2023, has now been ordered to hand over £4.1 million ($5.4 million) in ill-gotten crypto gains (thanks, BBC). Joseph O’Connor, now 26 years old, hijacked over 130 accounts, including those of Apple, Uber,…

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Microsoft’s updated anti-cheating measures go far beyond Secure Boot, including ‘Remote Attestation’ for online system verification

I think most of us would agree that cheating is a scourge upon multiplayer gaming. Anyone who’s seen a blatant wallhacker or obviously-bot-assisted player rampaging their way across the map like Rambo after too much sugar would likely agree that something should be done. Well, Microsoft appears to be doing that something, as it’s laid…

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