Geoff 'Zag' Keene, design director of Abiotic Factor, has 1,160 hours in PUBG and de-stresses using a Blizzard classic: 'Instead of going to therapy, guys will literally boot up Warcraft 2'

Geoff ‘Zag’ Keene, design director of Abiotic Factor, has 1,160 hours in PUBG and de-stresses using a Blizzard classic: ‘Instead of going to therapy, guys will literally boot up Warcraft 2’

Disk Cleanup Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend column delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like “How tidy is your desktop?” and “What game will you never uninstall?” Geoff “Zag” Keene first encountered PC gaming by watching his…

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Hasbro takes $56 million hit over multiple game cancellations, but it’s still talking about how Baldur’s Gate 3 is key to its future success

Two years after boasting about how hard it was going on videogames, Hasbro has recorded a “$56 million non-cash impairment” in its second-quarter financial report, arising from the cancellation of several games in development that were expected to release “in 2028 and beyond.” First things first: As PC Gamer’s Joshua Wolens explained when Sony took…

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Ex-TSMC manager first to be indicted under National Security Act for allegedly attempting to leak core Taiwanese chipmaking technologies to China

Taiwanese prosecutors have reportedly indicted a former TSMC manager for allegedly stealing trade secrets to give to China. This case, according to a spokesperson from Taiwan’s High Prosecutors Office who relayed the information to Nikkei Asia, is the first of its kind: “Although the attempt to transfer the technology to China was unsuccessful, the case…

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Riot takes on the quixotic task of policing bad ‘Off-Platform’ conduct by banning offenders from its games and suspending partner privileges

Earlier this month, Riot Games sent out some information about its terms of service being updated. Most of the changes are pretty uninteresting, except for one, which mostly concerns the content creator community. “These updates ensure we’re evolving with games and the content ecosystem to make the best possible experience for our players and creators,”…

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