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Ask a Star Wars fan their favorite weapon, and there’s a 98% chance they choose the lightsaber. Lightsabers — laser swords powered by a Force-filled kyber crystal — have enamored Star Wars fans since they first appeared in 1977. And,…
Extreme behaviour calls for an extreme response. The Pokémon Company has issued a statement (thanks, Automaton) confirming that it is considering using government-issued ID to tackle scalping in the Trading Card Game community. Though it doesn’t outright refer to scalpers,…
The upcoming RPG is one of Game Freak’s most large-scale projects
Following Sony’s carefully worded PlayStation Plus price increase announcement earlier this week, the company has confirmed what everybody already expected but what it hadn’t yet said out loud: it’s not just PS Plus Essential going up in price; Premium and…
The former creative director of one of gaming’s most influential stealth franchises, Splinter Cell, has suggested that advancements in lighting and shadow have made it more difficult than ever for the fans — and creators — of the genre. In…
Many fantasy games deal in the prospect of sacrificing things to gods, but few dramatise the associated exciting logistical pressures. Say you want to chuck a bunch of virgins into a volcano at regular intervals, to stop the regional Vulcan…
Microsoft’s newly appointed gaming boss Asha Sharma has made more leadership changes at Xbox, this time hiring a handful of executives to help lead the company that include an industry analyst who said games were losing the attention war to…
Everybody remembers kicking chickens, growing devil horns when you did too many bad things, and lapping up the praise as villagers applauded your every move. But all these years later, the big moment that still sits with me is the…
A security researcher going by the GitHub handle Nightmare-Eclipse disclosed a potentially nasty BitLocker bypass in Windows 11 earlier this month. Dubbed YellowKey, the exploit allows an attacker to read the contents of a BitLocker-encrypted drive by abusing standard behavior…
Nvidia has just announced its financial results for the previous quarter, and as expected, things are going very well for the GPU behemoth. The company is almost entirely AI-focused these days—I know, tiny violins for us PC gamers—and in its…