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Only 3% of Stop Killing Games’ EU initiative signees have failed verification so far—which is a great sign it’ll progress to the European Commission

Stop Killing Games‘ EU initiative had a second wind earlier this year, going from a bit of doom and gloom to 400,000 extra signatures past the requirement to get it in front of the European Commission, via a European Citizens’ Initiative. For context, Stop Killing Games is a movement designed to require game companies to…

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Legion Remix characters from ‘Quality Assurance’ guild breach containment, enter WoW proper with their godlike power intact—forcing Blizzard to quarantine Remix for the time being

World of Warcraft‘s Legion Remix has been proceeding about as expected. That is, to say, a fun little romp through a beloved expansion where Blizzard has had to nerf elite farming, because if there’s one thing a WoW player loves doing, it’s optimising a grind so hard it requires intervention. Remix is also a novel…

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NZXT’s controversial PC rental scheme hit by class action lawsuit claiming the company ‘defrauded consumers through gross misrepresentations and illegal business practices’

Late last year, we reported on controversy surrounding NZXT’s “Flex” PC rental scheme. Back then, NZXT founder and CEO Johnny Hou posted a YouTube video apologising for various failures and promising to do better. But it turns out whatever measures NZXT put in place haven’t been enough for some customers, following the filing of a…

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The latest Steam beta adds ‘a suspicious chat warning’ when you receive a potentially malicious message, something it probably should have done years ago

If you’ve ever fallen for a scam deployed by an account that looks like one of your friends but isn’t, Steam is implementing a new pop-up warning that’s intended to flag potential bad actors before they can send you links. In the latest Steam client beta, Valve announced a handful of changes and fixes, like…

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‘I have no mouth, and I must clean’: Just in time for Halloween, this $20,000 robot allows a human operator to look through its eyes for training purposes

Hey, remember that time a onesie wearing robot gave Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang a leather jacket? No? I’ll remind you—the robot in question was the Neo Gamma, a humanoid bot built by 1X Technologies for helping out around the home. Now, you can pre-order the Gamma’s successor, simply called ‘Neo’…for $20,000. CEO and founder of…

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