Steam now lets you check if you have Secure Boot enabled: the security feature we’re all going to have to get to grips with for Battlefield, Call of Duty and more

Steam now offers a quick way to check if your PC has Secure Boot enabled. That’s probably not information you care to fill your brain up with right now, but you might need to know it at some point soon as the latest games begin to require it to keep cheaters away. Secure Boot is…

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I wish I’d known this one stupidly simple trick when I started Baby Steps—it makes some of the harder early climbs much easier

I’ve only played about five hours of Baby Steps, but if there’s one thing I’ve learned during that time, it’s that you always need to have complete visibility over where Nate is putting his feet. Since this is a “walking simulator” and this logic applies to real life too, it may seem overly obvious. And…

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Baby Steps review

Need to know What is it? There is only one set of footsteps in the sand, because you are on your fuckin’ own, mate.Expect to pay: $18/£15.30Developer: Gabe Cuzzillo, Maxi Boch, Bennett Foddy Publisher: Devolver DigitalReviewed on: Windows 11, Intel Core i9, 32GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 4060Multiplayer? NoLink: Official site I fell while navigating some…

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Baby Steps review roundup: ‘Is it possible to love and hate a game at the same time?’ (The answer, clearly, is yes)

Baby Steps, the “slapstick walking simulator about a slob climbing a mountain” co-developed by Bennett Foddy (the Getting Over It guy, which should give you a pretty good idea of what to expect), Gabe Cuzzillo, and Maxi Boch is out today, and the reviews are pretty close to unanimous: The word “hate” appears in the…

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‘It doesn’t feel like they’ve tried to copy and paste the game onto the screen’ says star of Ubisoft’s upcoming Watch Dogs movie

I’m not quite sure who among us is eagerly awaiting the big screen adaptation of Ubisoft’s open world hack-a-thon Watch Dogs. Even me, even considering I liked the first Watch Dogs and liked the third Watch Dogs and have a few pleasant if foggy memories of the second Watch Dogs. I’m sure I’ll watch the…

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EU tax officials confront the most pressing legal question of our time: If you sell RuneScape gold to someone and they use it to buy a magic sword, do you still have to pay taxes?

On September 11, advocate general at the Court of Justice of the European Union Juliane Kokott issued an opinion requesting a preliminary ruling from the Tax Disputes Commission under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania on a case concerning that most fundamental financial quandary with which all states, federations, and empires in their might…

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Steam celebrates all things boomer shooter with ‘Boomstock 2025,’ blasting up to 80% off the very best in retro-inspired FPS

Boomstock is here, baby, and if you are now wondering, “What is Boomstock?” I am happy to explain: It’s “a celebration of booming and shooting,” with new game announcements, updates, demos, and a very nice Steam sale on retro-inspired shooters. Earlier this year we rang up a list of 10 essential boomer shooters that every…

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