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‘An unprecedented bombardment’: Cloudflare claims a new world record for a 31.4 Tbps DDoS botnet attack it recorded late last year

Cloudflare has sent us a copy of its quarterly DDoS threat report, and it makes for hair-raising reading. The gigantic CDN provider claims that it recorded “an unprecedented bombardment” from a botnet in the fourth quarter of 2025, resulting in a DDoS attack that peaked at 31.4 Terabits a second. Cloudflare claims that this is…

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Helldivers 2 players are staying logged in overnight to dodge queue times and clog servers, Arrowhead’s CEO agrees that an AFK time-out is due

Helldivers 2 is good—like, really good. But that comes with a cost. With hundreds of thousands of players piling into the unexpected co-op shooter darling, servers have been buckling under the sheer weight of a mass deployment. While I’ve been able to play myself, I haven’t been able to matchmake publically for around four days—I’ve…

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Nioh: Defiant Honor DLC Out Today

Hope everyone is enjoying the summer! To help you cool down and slide back into the action, check out the brand new winter battlefield on our second DLC: Defiant Honor, available now at PlayStation Store. As I’ve mentioned previously, William will be facing off with the renowned samurai Sanada Yukimura. Our director Yasuda-san and many…

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A Highland Song review

What is it? A platformer, a rhythm game, a branching story—in other words, another inkle narrative experiment. Release date December 5, 2023 Developer inkle Publisher inkle Reviewed on Radeon 5700 XT, i5-9600K, 16GB RAM Steam Deck N/A Link Official site Experimental, genre-bending approaches to interactive storytelling have always been inkle’s stock-in-trade, from the increasingly ambitious…

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Steam users react ecstatically to update that lets them access their heaving game notes via the web, also it fixes Monster Hunter Wilds video recording

I gotta be honest, the sum total of my engagement with Steam’s Game Notes feature is that one time I wrote a news story about people using them to cheat at Counter-Strike 2. I’ve never used ’em myself. Is this because of my incredible mind and prodigious powers of recall? Yes. But also it’s because…

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The WoW UI updates have come for Peggle, but its author is looking into it—as unexpected casualties of Blizzard’s war on combat mods abound

World of Warcraft is tackling combat mods (addons) in the pre-patch coming this week. In theory, this update is only designed to hamstring addons that provide a concrete advantage in combat. In practice, there are plenty of other mods getting caught in the crossfire. Like poor Peggle Classic, a six-year-old addon with almost 600,000 downloads…

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