'Star Fox EX Exploration Showcase' Dev Just Released A Star Fox Randomizer

A hacker has reportedly wiped out parts of the land registry database of Romania, bringing its real-estate market to a shuddering halt

A hacker going by the name of ByteToBreach has broken in to Romania’s cadastre, or land registry, and reportedly wiped information from its databases. Sources speaking to Risky Business have told the outlet that the hacker entered the system using valid credentials, exfiltrated the data within, and later wiped info from its servers after a…

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Prepare for War: Helldivers Launches March 3rd

Arrowhead Game Studios, in conjunction with Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA), today signed the Declaration of War between Super Earth and the intergalactic alien threat. WE ARE NOW PREPARING FOR WAR. With immediate effect from March 3rd, 2015, Helldivers are to be dispatched to the front lines of PS4, PS3 and PS Vita systems. The…

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Following the success of Mouthwashing, developer Wrong Organ wasn’t ready to make a better ‘story game,’ so it’s making a ‘gameplay game’ instead

Ahead of co-op tank sim Carcass Clad’s reveal trailer at the PC Gaming Show, I got to speak to Wrong Organ devs Jeffrey Tomec and Dave van Egdom about the studio’s upcoming third game. The elephant in the room: Carcass Clad is a huge departure from the studio’s breakout hit, Mouthwashing, a singleplayer narrative horror…

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Van Gogh Museum forced to stop distributing special Pikachu cards after scalpers storm the gates: ‘[we] take the safety and security of visitors and staff very seriously’

Late last month, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam opened a special exhibit in partnership with Pokemon, celebrating its 50th anniversary—and, in a move that’s a little unwise in hindsight, also offered a limited-edition Pikachu card in the style of Gogh’s piece “Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat”. The intent was to make a fun, family-friendly…

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Bethesda union staff to march outside studios over Xbox layoffs: ‘The company wants us to accept this as a done deal and quietly disappear’

Xbox’s ‘reset’ layoffs have hit Bethesda hard, with long-term institutional talent shown the door—Zenimax Online Studios, which is part of the same studio family as Bethesda and works on the Elder Scrolls Online, was also particularly dismantled by Xbox, with over 60% of its staff laid off in the past year. Understandably, Bethesda developers are…

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