Random: Death Stranding 2 Has Mushroom Kingdom References, Just Like Its Predecessor

ChatGPT is Wikipedia’s most viewed article in 2023, beating out last year’s ‘winner’ which was *checks notes* Jeffrey Dahmer

Towards the end of each year the Wikimedia foundation collates a list of the most popular Wikipedia articles, and it usually makes for interesting reading as a reflection of what people were generally most interested in learning about in the year nearly passed. This time it’s ChatGPT’s turn to top the tables, and given that…

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Discord says 70,000 age-verification ID photos may have been leaked in recent security breach that also includes names, usernames, emails, credit cards, and IP addresses

In a development that will come as no surprise to critics of age-verification legislation, Discord has just put a figure on its recent security breach in terms of the number of government photo IDs that have been compromised. And that figure is 70,000. In a statement to The Verge, Discord clarified that its own security…

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Clockwork Revolution dev InXile worked on a Wasteland VR survival game with DayZ’s former director—until Xbox cancelled it

“I had the surreal experience of building an open-world, post-apocalyptic multiplayer survival game in the Wasteland universe for Brian Fargo,” says Brian Hicks. “Not knowing that Fallout 76 was a thing and coming.” The announcement of Bethesda’s Fallout MMO was just the first bomb to detonate over the development of InXile’s survival game. When the…

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2025 Steam Awards nominations are open, and I wonder if Valve’s wonky personalized suggestions will affect the results—you’ll know they did if Bongo Cat gets nominated in the ‘story-rich’ category

Another year on this godforsaken rock is grinding to a close, and you know what that means: award season! The Golden Joysticks just wrapped up, The Game Awards are coming, and to kill some time in between you can now nominate your games of choice for the 2025 Steam Awards. I’d actually wondered how Steam…

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