Dune: Awakening's player guilds will be able to pass some pretty OP server-wide laws—including one that means you'll lose everything when defeated in deep desert PvP

Dune: Awakening’s player guilds will be able to pass some pretty OP server-wide laws—including one that means you’ll lose everything when defeated in deep desert PvP

With survival MMO Dune: Awakening on the brink of release, Funcom has detailed one of the central features of the endgame: the Landsraad. In Dune’s fiction, the Landsraad is a council made up of the heads of the Great Houses: most notably House Atreides and House Harkonnen. In a new video you can see below,…

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Indie publisher alleges TikTok is AI-generating offensive ads using its characters and they can’t make it stop: ‘Does TikTok want me to be grateful for the mistreatment of my company?’

Night in the Woods and Tunic publisher Finji said TikTok is using its characters and art without its consent to run offensive ads “enhanced” with generative AI. As reported by IGN, Finji CEO Rebekah Saltsman called attention to the issue publicly in a February 5 Bluesky post. “If you happen to see any Finji ads…

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“The [NES] Is Not Gonna Go On Forever” – Forget GDC 2026, Take A Trip Back In Time With Recordings From The 1989 Event

“Available for the first time in 37 years”. The dust has only just settled on the 2026 edition of the Game Developers Conference, but The Video Game History Foundation is giving us the chance to blissfully drift back in time to the third such instalment of the (Computer) Games Developer Conference, recorded on audio tape…

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“Flex Is In Spec, Buckling Is Not” – Commodore Addresses Quality Control Concerns With Its C64 Ultimate

“Here’s more transparency around our transparent PCB”. The recently resurrected Commodore International just launched the C64 Ultimate, an FPGA-powered upgrade on the 1982 home computer that turns millions into hardcore gamers. The new system has gone down a hit with fans – myself included – thanks to its authentic design, compatibility with original software and…

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