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President Emmanuel Macron is partially blaming video games for the spread of violence in France following the shooting death of a teenager during a police traffic stop in a Paris suburb last week. NPR reports: “It sometimes feels like some of them are …
An anonymous reader shares a report: Most of the changes on the Sega Retro wiki every day are tiny things, like single-line tweaks to game details or image swaps. Early Monday morning, the site got something else: A 47MB, 272-page PDF full of confident…
Amusing parody of password rules.
BoingBoing:
For example, at a certain level, your password must include today’s Wordle answer. And then there’s rule #27: “At least 50% of your password must be in the Wingdings font.”
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Source code for the original Far Cry, released back in 2004, has popped up online. From a report: Entitled “Far Cry 1.34 Complete”, the game’s code was uploaded to the internet archive site Archive.org at the end of June, as highlighted by well-known m…
Blizzard’s Battle.net online service was the target of an apparent DDoS attack, “since at least the early hours of Sunday morning,” reports Engadget, “making it difficult, if not impossible, to play Diablo IV, World of Warcraft and other Blizzard title…
Spencer played down concerns about AI being used to streamline the video game production process and said it had a role in moderationArtificial Intelligence is very much on the news agenda right now. The unstoppable rise of ChatGPT and the seemingly im…
An anonymous reader shares a report: PC gamers could easily make a joke that three things in life never change: death, taxes, and the classic look of Steam. One of those things just changed, though; Valve just released the most substantial overhaul to …
Federal Trade Commission secures delay of $69bn deal which it argues would be anti-competitiveA US district judge has granted the Federal Trade Commission’s request to temporarily block Microsoft’s $69bn buyout of video game maker Activision Blizzard a…
Hmmmmmm writes: Fast food giant McDonald’s has released a new retro-style game featuring Grimace, the purple milkshake blob. While it’s clearly meant to be played in a browser on a phone or computer, it’s also a fully working Game Boy Color game that y…
Minecraft: Bedrock Edition is now available for Chromebooks, Google announced on Wednesday, following the launch of an early access version in March. From a report: The official Chromebook release makes the game even more widely available — and thanks…