A mega-mod is kicking GTA 5 into 2026 thanks to one hobbyist creator and roughly 20,000 aggressively placed trees and street props

Highguard adds an experimental 5v5 mode with longer respawns during raids, though it’s ‘not meant to replace 3s’

Highguard has fielded all sorts of opinions since it launched Monday. I’m not huge on it, but PC Gamer staff writer Morgan Park spoke more positively of it in his impressions—though he did say it’s “ill-timed” given the larger shift toward more casual, chaotic fun that shooters are taking right now. It seems like Highguard…

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Moroccan pirate queen Sayyida al-Hurra was largely omitted from history books, but now she’s in Civilization 7 thanks to a professor’s curiosity and years of research

If you read the history books of the 16th century, Sayyida al-Hurra will rarely show up. The powerful women of the Mediterranean and Islam typically don’t, except as footnotes or asides. So her leadership, piracy and plundering for her people never quite made the major texts. But the “pirate queen” of Morocco is finally receiving…

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Moroccan pirate queen Sayyida al-Hurra was largely omitted from history books, but now she’s in Civilization 7 thanks to a professor’s curiosity and years of research

If you read the history books of the 16th century, Sayyida al-Hurra will rarely show up. The powerful women of the Mediterranean and Islam typically don’t, except as footnotes or asides. So her leadership, piracy and plundering for her people never quite made the major texts. But the “pirate queen” of Morocco is finally receiving…

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Jeffrey Epstein was banned from Xbox Live

Jeffrey Epstein, or an account associated with his email address, was banned from Xbox Live in 2013, new documents released by the US Justice Department reveal. The ban notice cites “harassment, threats, and/or abuse of other players,” but it appears that the actual reason was that Epstein, who died in 2019 while awaiting trial for…

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Jeffrey Epstein was banned from Xbox Live

Jeffrey Epstein, or an account associated with his email address, was banned from Xbox Live in 2013, new documents released by the US Justice Department reveal. The ban notice cites “harassment, threats, and/or abuse of other players,” but it appears that the actual reason was that Epstein, who died in 2019 while awaiting trial for…

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The best Elder Scrolls game that isn’t an Elder Scrolls game is getting a big patch in February and free DLC in March

Questline, the developer behind Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon, made a big pile of money in 2025 by doing something that in hindsight seems obvious: making an Elder Scrolls-style RPG during a fifteen-year drought for Elder Scrolls RPGs. (Ok, we got Oblivion Remastered last year, but leftovers, however well warmed up, don’t count). The…

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