Author: Tom Phillips

The British teenager who hacked Rockstar and posted a swathe of work-in-progress GTA 6 development material online last year has been sentenced to remain indefinitely in a secure hospital. Arion Kurtaj, now 18, was part of the Lapsus$ hacking group behind similar attacks on Nvidia, Uber and BT, among others. Kurtaj hacked…

Sega has detailed more of its plans to revive a swathe of classic game franchises, including Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi, Golden Axe, Shinobi and Steets of Rage. The announcement that Sega was working on new entries in the above series came as something of a suprise this month, and with few other…

Online servers for Dark Souls 2 will be shut down in March, for anyone still playing on either PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360. Dark Souls developer FromSoftware made the announcement today in a statement posted to X, formerly Twitter. “The Dark Souls 2 PS3 and Xbox 360 servers will shut down…

Marvel’s Spider-Man developer Insomniac Games has now released a statement addressing the ransomware attack on its studio earlier this month, the release of stolen data this week, and the spread of information on upcoming projects now circulating the internet. The PlayStation studio had stayed silent until now, something it said was a result…

Sony has said it will no longer delete Discovery content from PlayStation libraries following fan backlash. In a statement, Sony said it had now struck an “updated licensing agreement” with Discovery owner Warner Bros. to ensure previously purchased content would remain accessible “for at least the next 30 months” (thanks, GamesIndustry.biz). An…

Game development disaster The Day Before will go dark forever on 22nd January 2024. A statement posted this morning to X, formerly Twitter, gave remaining players a month’s notice that the game – once Steam’s most-wishlisted title – would close down in just over 30 days. As a reminder, The Day Before…

China has announced new rules to limit the encouragement of spending in online video games, spooking investors in two of the world’s biggest publishers. News of the limits wiped a combined ~$80bn from the value of Tencent and NetEase, China’s two main games publishers that now support or part-own many of the world’s…

Marvel’s Wolverine is still years from release, but people are currently playing – and uploading footage – of an incomplete early development build found within the files stolen from Insomniac Games by ransomware hackers earlier this month. It’s remarkable to see an in-development game being played in this way – and…

Rocksteady has now confirmed the return of iconic DC Comics character Poison Ivy in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. The character – now just named Ivy – returns in Suicide Squad with a radically changed appearance following her apparent demise in 2015’s Arkham Knight. (As a reminder, Suicide Squad is a canonical…

Super Mario Run, Nintendo’s first mobile game to feature its moustachioed mascot, has been updated with a tie-in to recent Switch game Super Bros. Mario Wonder. The smartphone app now lets you activate Wonder Flowers during levels in the game’s Toad Rally mode, as part of a special event that runs until 14th…