The majority of teams in the top 100 for Destiny 2’s latest contest mode raid cheated—and as an MMO player, I am neither shocked nor surprised

It is with grim solemnity that I must share some terrible news: Destiny 2 has cheaters in it. Quite a lot of cheaters, actually—in fact, the majority of players in a top 100 ranking for the contest mode of The Desert Perpetual raid are stinkin’, filthy, no-good hackers, why I oughtta. As spotted by @aquativityy…

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Brits can get around Discord’s age verification thanks to Death Stranding’s photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK’s Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima

Today saw the full introduction of the requirements outlined in the Online Safety Act in the UK, requiring “robust” age checks for users to access adult content online. People have already managed to find ways around at least some of these verification requirements after *checks watch* less than 24 hours. Earlier today, our James stumbled…

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Dev insists a glossed-up version of Daggerfall’s aesthetic was ‘invented’ by AI, which is a bit like saying I can invent a new plane by drawing a picture of one

I normally wouldn’t inform you of a public slapfight between a developer and X users, but unfortunately, given the absolute fury-storm surrounding generative AI technology, and the fact this whole debacle’s an illustrative point as to why all conversations surrounding it are tainted by ragebait, my hands are tied. Tim Soret—who got in deep water…

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Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader dev Owlcat comes out swinging in support of Stop Killing Games: ‘Every player deserves lasting access to what they’ve paid for’

Stop Killing Games’ quest to get publishers to, get this, stop killing games trundles on. In fact, things are going quite well: the campaign’s EU initiative recently hit the 1.4 million signatures milestone, which should be enough—fingers crossed—to get it over the hurdle and off to the European Commission, which will have six months to…

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Quarantine Zone: The Last Check has been wishlisted on Steam 1 million times, and will be published in November by Devolver Digital

It’s not even out yet, but zombie base management sim Quarantine Zone: The Last Check is already a certified hit. Its demo, released in May, attracted hundreds of thousands of players (myself included), received great reviews and lots of attention on social media—and has now infected over a million Steam wishlists. It’s not surprising, then,…

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‘People hate it. It’s very annoying. It’s like a boss in Dark Souls’: Quarantine Zone’s biggest source of negative feedback is that damn supply cart

Along with a million wishlists, the demo for zombie apocalypse management sim Quarantine Zone: The Last Check got a lot of feedback. The demo was massively popular when it launched in May, and linked to a survey for players to fill out when they finished playing. Boy, did players fill out that survey. “We got…

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‘You can’t raw dog it’ says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: ‘If you’re not using AI, you’re going to lose your job to somebody who uses AI’

Amid the hubbub of the Washington DC AI summit earlier this week, in which President Trump unveiled a raft of AI policies and made some dubious statements about the future of power generation, it might have been easy to miss a livestreamed interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang as part of the All-In Podcast. In…

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Half-Life 2 just got a patch that fixes a progress-blocking teleporter bug and makes a train easier to race

Last year, Valve brought the original development team back together for a 20th anniversary Half-Life 2 update. It integrated the post-launch episodes, added a new developer commentary track, brought in Steam Workshop support, and added a heap of map and gameplay updates. All of which was great—except for one progress-blocking bug it introduced to the…

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Today’s Wordle answer for Friday, July 25

Solve your daily Wordle game without breaking a sweat with our incredible range of help. Our tips can give your puzzle solving a general polish, while today’s hint’s happy to provide something more targeted if you need an extra lift. And if those green letters are just refusing to turn up on time, the July…

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