Author: [email protected] (Ted Litchfield)
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I was shocked to find out the Windows 10 desktop background wasn’t computer generated, but a picture of lasers being shot through an actual window
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Windows 10 was a real return to form for Microsoft’s ubiquitous line of operating systems following the confoundingly touchscreen-centric Windows 8, but I can’t say I paid its default desktop wallpaper any mind at the time—I pretty much immediately swapped it for videogame concept art or something. But that was because I just assumed it…
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You can’t take it with you, but you can’t leave it for someone else either: Valve says you aren’t allowed to bequeath a Steam account in a will
First reported by Ars Technica, ResetEra user delete12345 has made an interesting discovery about Steam libraries: we’re not allowed to bequeath them to our loved ones in the event of our untimely passing. Delete12345 asked Steam Support about the hypothetical scenario, and got a clear, professional, but very disappointing response. “Unfortunately, Steam accounts and games…
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If you’ve never played Baldur’s Gate 3 with its nudity censor turned on, it straight up gives everybody a fig leaf like they’re cartoon characters
I’ve really appreciated how Baldur’s Gate 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 treat us like adults: that’s right, baby, our RPGs have tasteful premium cable nudity now, throw that formerly de rigueur loincloth diaper in the trash and feel the breeze. Both games, however, have a censored mode for more impressionable audiences, and while Cyberpunk just slaps…
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This is getting ridiculous: It looks like one of Deadlock’s leakers has made it so you can see the unannounced Valve shooter’s playtest concurrents, hero code names, and update history on SteamDB
First spotted by Valve-focused Twitter account wickedplayer494, it looks like a playtester for the unannounced Valve shooter Deadlock has made the game visible on SteamDB via the site’s token dumper feature, allowing anyone to see Deadlock’s player count, update history, and other details. Valve has still neither confirmed nor denied the veracity of the numerous…
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Bungie wins a little walkin’ around money in first of its kind jury trial against Destiny 2 cheat maker, but the victory will likely make it even easier for game companies to keep taking cheaters to court
First reported by independent journalist and former Kotaku editor-in-chief Stephen Totilo, Bungie has won its lawsuit against cheat maker Phoenix Digital (also known as AimJunkies). The first of its kind jury trial rewarded $63,210 in damages to Bungie—a rounding error for a company of this size—but it more importantly sets a new legal precedent supporting…
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It turns out you can find Idris Elba’s Cyberpunk 2077 character hanging out and working a regular job in Night City before you start the expansion
CD Projekt Red always brings a special attention to detail in its games: I remember my shock at learning about the Witcher 3 easter egg that takes seven in-game years to find. That same sensibility definitely holds strong in Cyberpunk 2077, where you can actually find Idris Elba’s character, Solomon Reed—who was added to the…
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A new Shadow of the Erdtree promo image is almost 100% our first look at one of Elden Ring’s most mysterious characters
FromSoftware has finally started ramping up its Elden Ring expansion pack hype train with less than a month to go until Shadow of the Erdtree’s release. Hot on the heels of Tuesday’s pre-rendered story trailer, FromSoft has shared promo art of a new NPC, and I think we already know exactly who they are. The…
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The developer of exceptional 2022 sci-fi adventure Norco is following it up with a ‘narrative micro-adventure’ about an android exploring an AI-haunted oil refinery
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We absolutely loved Norco, the haunting 2022 southern gothic cyberpunk point and click adventure, so we’ve been eager to see what would come next from developer Geography of Robots. Now we know: Silenus looks to be a smaller-scale, but no less striking adventure, and its free demo comes with a funky tie-in to a Louisanna…
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We don’t have to live like this: you can set Chrome to default to Google’s new nonsense-free ‘Web’ search, which also completely bypasses that awful AI answer box
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Google’s recently-introduced Web search option feels like a cheat code: it just gives you a list of websites related to your search query, sorted by relevance, with no cruft, sponsored links, or other nonsense—it’ll even skip over the search giant’s new AI Answer box that insists on inserting itself at the top of your results. …
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Nothing is too niche for modders to remaster, not even a ’90s Star Wars FPS expansion pack where you play as Luke Skywalker’s weird non-canon wife rescuing my favorite Expanded Universe dork
Luke Skywalker had a weird wife named Mara Jade who was a femme fatal ex-Sith assassin with a purple lightsaber. Chewbacca died at the age of 225 years old when Star Wars’ Aldi brand Borg dropped a moon on him. The Death Star plans were not stolen by a ragtag bunch of rebel soldiers that…