Germany cuts Steam Deck desktop devs a $1.5 million cheque, they declare an end to 'insecure spyware-riddled software imposed by the likes of Microsoft'

Linux. Maybe you've heard of it.

There's a devious hacking scheme that involves a hijacked Microsoft Teams account, a fake IT helpdesk, and a covert infection tool

IT's a pretty bad one.

This city-smashing monster sim is the first game I've ever played where my reward for beating a level is getting a nuke dropped on my head

You Are the Monster is a simple, scrappy chunk of kaiju chaos.

Here's how the Iran war is hitting key supplies for components, according to supply chain experts

The ripples span wider than you might think.

Taking a heroic stand against the holy trinity, 5 bears beat a WoW dungeon on its highest difficulty—Blizzard says oops, quickly reverts 200% buff that caused it

Unbear-able

Teaching software company strikes a deal with hackers to get customer data back, defying FBI guidance

A strange choice with details to follow.

Ken Levine says Steam Machine shows we're hitting 'diminishing returns' with bleeding-edge graphics tech—just look at BioShock to see why art is more important

Keep your traced rays, I'm attaching barnacles to things.

Outbound is an excellent idea but fails to pin down what people love about co-op crafting

My van's wheels are stuck on a single track.

One of BioShock's directors has been questioning the point of one of its key systems: 'I don't care about how many different plasmids I have'

Imsim legend Jonathan Chey's new game is exploring a solution to plasmid favouritism.

Bioshock lead's fears about Judas were banished by Baldur's Gate 3 gibbing a main character on his second playthrough: 'He was gone'

"I don't have a heartbreak about people not seeing player content."