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Disney delists 14 games from Steam without warning, most notably Armed and Dangerous and that one Hercules game you vaguely remember playing in 1997

In a blow aimed precisely at the heart of my hazily-recalled childhood memories, Disney has gone and yanked down 14 games from Steam. What’s worse, the games were delisted entirely without warning, meaning we didn’t even get our now-customary chance to pay slightly too much for access to them before it goes away forever (and…

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Here’s how long it would take 12 RTX 5090 GPUs to crack your password… and a reminder that just adding more characters still works

Cybersecurity company, Hive Systems, has just put out its 2025 Password Table as a continuation of its yearly analysis of how difficult passwords are to crack. The results are in, and while it’s not exactly pretty, the good news is that unless you’re against computing might of a multibillion global AI company, you’re probably safe…

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The Last of Us Part 2 proves that 8 GB of VRAM can be enough, even at 4K with maximum settings, so why aren’t more games using the same clever asset-streaming trick?

When Sony’s masterpiece The Last of Us Part 1 appeared on the humble PC two years ago, I hoped it would become a watershed moment in the history of console ports. Well, it was, but for all the wrong reasons—buggy and unstable, it hogged your CPU and GPU like nothing else, and most controversially of…

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