GOG taken offline for maintenance in wake of PHP security emergency

DRM-free game store GOG announced at 8 am Pacific that its site and launcher, GOG Galaxy, would be offline for "a couple of hours" for maintenance. The company did not say the cause, but it is not ...

Xbox biz guy deletes his X account less than 24 hours after saying game devs who don't embrace AI 'should not be in the business of being a business'

Business strategy manager Brandon Stirrup said he was "happy to take the hit" for his stance on AI, then left social media.

Star Wars Zero Company adds new difficulty options that can bring it closer to XCOM

Star Wars Zero Company's 1.2 patch introduces a new granular difficulty system in addition to the usual bugfixes and tweaks. These new options exist alongside the original difficulty levels (easy, ...
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Liquid Swords, developer of open-city crime sim Samson, has gone bankrupt following staff claims that they haven't been paid in two months

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Leaked AI safety bill from Anthropic only requires government intervention if 50+ injuries or $1 billion are at risk

Politico recently reported on a confidential draft of a proposed AI safety bill from Anthropic, the company behind Claude LLMs (via Tom's Hardware). The bill, which has been pitched to US lawmakers, ...
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'There were a lot of disagreements across the place': Former Marathon director Joe Ziegler on leading Bungie's extraction shooter, playing Path of Exile for 3,437 hours, and ...

Joe Ziegler might be best known for his role guiding the design of big competitive shooters, but his formative gaming experiences were with point-and-click adventures like King's Quest. "There was ...
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Surprising no-one, Wizards of the Coast 'doesn't intend to voluntarily recognize' union efforts for the second time this year

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US lawmaker calls videogame purchases rentals disguised as sales: 'When you pay for a game, you should own it'

If it becomes law, the bill will see the US Federal Trade Commission create regulations that protect our "ability to own and play" purchased games, according to Torres' office. "When you pay for a ...
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Tech founder criticized for vibe coding game about shooting 'zombies' in San Francisco's poorest neighborhood

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