Xbox is rolling out age verification in the UK with some social features blocked for young users, and no, you can’t use Death Stranding to get around this one

The UK has just recently passed the UK Online Safety Act, and despite almost 400,000 signatures being signed to repeal it, the UK government has stayed firm on its implementation. Discord recently fell in line with this act, requiring age verification for certain servers, but unlike that, Xbox’s new 18+ moderation can’t be worked around…

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Today’s Wordle answer for Tuesday, July 29

Use our hint for today’s Wordle to get Tuesday’s game off to the best possible start, filling your opening line with a supercharged selection of green and yellow letters. Or if not that, at the very least giving you a great idea of where to head next. And don’t even think about worrying if that…

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‘Maybe I’ve directed my last game,’ Dead Space creator Glen Schofield says after being unable to secure funding for his new project: ‘With the industry on pause, AAA feels like it’s a long ways away’

After a long career in videogames that took him from Ren and Stimpy and Rocky and Bullwinkle to Dead Space and The Callisto Protocol (seriously, check his credits), Glen Schofield might have finally reached the end of the line. In a message posted to LinkedIn (via VGC), Schofield said he’d been working on a new…

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Great news: A guy saved an image file onto a live bird

Before it was used to subject us to an endless churn of ads and targeted misinformation, technology could feel magical. It’s hard to remember, but 15 years ago, you could see someone tinkering on something cool online and it usually didn’t involve a con, a surveillance apparatus, or a military contract. Perhaps we’ve just become…

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One of 2024’s best games and a new horror classic has been delisted on Itch.io amid the payment processor crackdown on NSFW games

Mouthwashing was one of the best games of 2024, “a horror game whose narrative and aesthetics are going to be remembered, celebrated, and emulated” for years to come, as PC Gamer’s Ted Litchfield wrote in his glowing 87% review. And if you’d like to buy it on indie-focused digital marketplace Itch.io, you’re going to have…

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