Author: Rich Stanton
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Interpol busts 3,500 alleged cybercriminals and scammers, seizes $300 million of ill-gotten proceeds, and warns about the rise of the NFT ‘rug pull’
The International Criminal Police Organisation better-known as Interpol has announced the arrest of 3,500 alleged cybercriminals and scammers, alongside the seizure of $300 million in cash and digital assets across 34 nations. The arrests marked the conclusion of what Interpol calls Operation HAECHI IV, a six-month investigation funded by South Korea. The operation tackled seven…
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The Washington Post tried to buy Wordle before the New York Times did
Wordle was a lockdown phenomenon: one of those games that, merits aside, simply landed at the right time. I’ve kicked the habit now but like pretty much everyone else I had a Wordle phase with the family WhatsApp group and, yes, when I’m nearly out of chances I have gone running to my six-letter friend…
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Diablo 2 player seethes for eight months after hardcore betrayal, befriends one of the gankers before obliterating their character out of nowhere: ‘Now we’re even’
We’ve all had frustrating experiences in multiplayer games. Heck, it’s not that unusual for the worst of them to upset you in real life for a brief spell, and perhaps inspire some intemperate messages or uncivil voice chat. But for one Diablo 2 player, KrimzontheRed, the insult dealt by a bunch of gankers in the…
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Creator behind hugely popular Skyrim co-op mod gives up on the Starfield version of it because, drum roll please, ‘this game is f***ing trash’
2023 has turned out to be the year of Baldur’s Gate 3, RPG-wise at least, and it’s easy to forget that no-one expected it to be this way. Many including myself expected the biggest and best game of the year to be Bethesda’s much-anticipated Starfield, the first new series from the studio in decades and…
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GTA 6’s first trailer has recreations of a load of real viral video moments in it, and it looks like Rockstar’s version of TikTok will play a big part
Rockstar has released the first official trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6 early, and in 12 hours it’s already smashed through 60 million views (and counting). Needless to say the 90-second video is jam-packed full of details and hints about what we’ll be getting up to in Vice City, and if you want the nuts-and-bolts…
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The Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer has smashed through 60 million YouTube views in 12 hours
The last 24 hours have been videogame carnage of the best sort. Rockstar had previously announced that the first trailer for GTA 6 would debut, ooh, about three hours from the time of writing. Instead a full trailer leak saw the studio decide to get out ahead of time and release the trailer early. Rockstar’s…
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Elden Ring’s producer says development of its Shadow of the Erdtree expansion is ‘going well’, compares it to Bloodborne with ‘new battles and new characters’
FromSoftware recently received a gong for Elden Ring at the Japanese PlayStation Partners awards, as part of which producer Yasuhiro Kitao picked up the trophy and said a select few words to the press. The conference was reported on by the publication Game Watch and, as Kitao was speaking in Japanese, this is a lightly…
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Activision felt ‘now was the time’ to put Call of Duty’s DMZ mode out to pasture, says play zombies instead
Call of Duty’s DMZ mode launched as part of Warzone 2.0 and, at the time, felt like it could be the next big multiplayer thing. Shows what I know, but the mode was essentially a fast-paced and slicker take on some key Tarkov mechanics, and the PvEvP rhythm was a welcome change in pace for…
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Footballer Ronaldo faces $1bn+ class action lawsuit for promoting Binance to unwary customers, and he’s still doing it
One of the world’s footballing greats, Cristiano Ronaldo, has been named in a class action lawsuit in the US for his promotion of the crypto exchange Binance. Binance was in the news most recently after the CEO stepped down and both he and the company pleaded guilty to money laundering charges in the US and…
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That new version of Ark’s just had its crossplay yanked out of the PC version because you’re a big old bunch of cheaters
Studio Wildcard has yoinked PvP crossplay from the PC version of Ark: Survival Ascended, its recently released remaster of Ark: Survival Evolved. The reason is that a whole lot of PC gamers have been put on the naughty list for cheating, with hacks letting them do everything from move like The Flash to blowing away…