It is with grim solemnity that I must share some terrible news: Destiny 2 has cheaters in it. Quite a lot of cheaters, actually—in fact, the majority of players in a top 100 ranking for the contest mode of The Desert Perpetual raid are stinkin', filthy, no-good hackers, why I oughtta.As spotted by @aquativityy on X (thanks, Forbes), RaidHub's top 100 leaderboard has narced tremendously on the top percentile of...

Today saw the full introduction of the requirements outlined in the Online Safety Act in the UK, requiring "robust" age checks for users to access adult content online. People have already managed to find ways around at least some of these verification requirements after *checks watch* less than 24 hours.Earlier today, our James stumbled across people using Sam Porter Bridges selfies to bypass Discord's age verification, from this post from...

I normally wouldn't inform you of a public slapfight between a developer and X users, but unfortunately, given the absolute fury-storm surrounding generative AI technology, and the fact this whole debacle's an illustrative point as to why all conversations surrounding it are tainted by ragebait, my hands are tied.Tim Soret—who got in deep water after espousing support for GamerGate years ago, then backtracked, then promised a comeback of his game...

Last year, Valve brought the original development team back together for a 20th anniversary Half-Life 2 update. It integrated the post-launch episodes, added a new developer commentary track, brought in Steam Workshop support, and added a heap of map and gameplay updates. All of which was great—except for one progress-blocking bug it introduced to the Entanglement level.Near the end of Entanglement there's a setpiece where you use turrets to defend...

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Bandai Namco has announced that the Elden Ring expansion Shadow of the Erdtree has sold 10 million copies. This follows hot on the heels of the news that Elden Ring itself has now sold over 30 million copies, and the tills just don't stop ringing in the Lands Between: the multiplayer spinoff title Elden Ring Nightreign, which released on 30 May, has sold five million.That's a pretty impressive attach rate...

The only way to defeat long queue times is spend them doing something productive with your life, like beating Minecraft.Twitch streamer Aspen spent the last week in lengthy Overwatch queues—a common annoyance for high-ranked players—digging her way to the end of Minecraft. In one particularly long queue that lasted over two and a half hours on Wednesday, she was able to gear up and slay the Ender Dragon."I never beat...

Éalú, from first time developers Beyond the Bark, starts with a strong premise: You are a mechanical mouse looking to escape a mysterious labyrinth. But its presentation is what really blows the doors down: Nearly everything is made out of wood, and rendered in full-on, stop-motion animation.Not real models keyframed to sprites either, such as the recent Judero or classics like Fallout and Doom: Every possible permutation of every scene...

In Primal Planet I'm a cheerful ol' brute living in a lush jungle with my wife, daughter, and pet dinosaur Sino. As a confident guy of the Mesozoic era, I'm not too worried about all the dinosaurs and insect life. I can use fruit to distract some enemies, I can stealth crabwalk past sleeping T-rexes, and I can even use my spears to reach otherwise inaccessible heights. It's a pretty...

All Living Things is one of those games I had to check out based on its look alone. It's an interactive alchemical picture book with claymation art, and its demo has me looking forward to the full version of this short, experimental mood piece.I'm just a simple country games journalist who doesn't know much about "hermetic alchemy," but by god can I recognize a vibe when I see one. All...