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Sean Murray reflects on 10 years of No Man’s Sky, its future, and why Hello Games’ “redemption arc” narrative “isn’t really the story” of the developer

"I feel – and I think the team does too – very lucky to have this opportunity to work on it." “It’s been an amazing year”, an incredibly upbeat Murray tells me over a video call when I ask if No Man’s Sky’s 10th anniversary has properly sunk in yet. “And last year we hit […]

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“They don’t understand art” – id Software lead slams Xbox, says it’s “impossible” to make games like 2016’s Doom now

Chris Hayes, lead services provider at id Software, was speaking to Andre Peschke on the Well Played podcast. The roughly 90-minute conversation was focused entirely on the studio’s recent layoffs, covering the events leading up to the job cuts, as well as the push for unionisation at id Software. “It is hard to make a

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Assassin’s Creed creator’s dark and witchy action game 1666: Amsterdam is out in early access sooner than we expected

1666: Amsterdam was re-revealed to the world earlier this summer in an eye-catching trailer that showed a witch walking through the streets of old Amsterdam, fighting enemies with magic and her broomstick. I kid you not. Developer Panache Digital released a playable prologue 1666: Amsterdam that same day, revealing a story of overlapping timelines and

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Valve Warns Steam Machine Buyers About Scam Messages After Cyberattack

If you’ve been holding out on buying Valve’s ludicrously expensive home console, you may have saved yourself from more than an empty wallet. European customers who ordered a Steam Machine or Steam Controller may be the victims of a personal information data breach after one of Valve’s hardware distribution partners was hit by a cyberattack.

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When Credentials Are No Longer Enough: Device Trust in the AI Era

Identity security is under growing strain. The passwords, multi-factor authentication (MFA) responses, IP reputation, geolocation and browser characteristics organizations have traditionally used to judge whether a login is legitimate are becoming easier for attackers to steal, imitate or work around. AI is adding to that pressure, not by creating a completely new class of attack,

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CISA: SonicWall SMA1000 flaws now exploited by ransomware gangs

CISA has confirmed that ransomware gangs have begun exploiting two recently patched SonicWall SMA1000 vulnerabilities, including a maximum-severity server-side request forgery (SSRF) flaw. ​SMA1000 is an enterprise-grade secure remote access gateway used by large corporations, government agencies, and Managed Service Providers (MSSPs) to provide VPN access to internal applications and corporate networks. SonicWall released patches

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I’ve seen much more of 1666: Amsterdam, and the witchy game by the creator of Assassin’s Creed has some surprising ideas

But the return of 1666: Amsterdam – developed by Désilets’ Panache Digital studio, which he co-founded in 2014 – was marred by a ‘mixed’ reception to its short playable prologue, released in June on Steam. It was a glimpse of 1666 Amsterdam that left me with as many questions as it did answers, such as

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Report: Analyst Shatters Expectations of an All-Glass iPhone

If you were hoping for an all-glass iPhone, a new report from Barron’s might shatter that dream. The financial news source reports that Jefferies analyst Edison Lee believes development on an all-glass mobile device has come to a halt. According to the report, Lee thinks the device was canceled because of “poor production yield,” or

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New StormEncryptor ransomware used by former Medusa affiliate

A financially motivated threat actor previously associated with the Medusa ransomware operation is now deploying a new ransomware strain called StormEncryptor. Microsoft Threat Intelligence is tracking the actor as Storm-1175 and says the recent attacks were likely preceded by exploitation of an authentication-bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-18577) in the N-central remote monitoring and management (RMM) tool. Storm-1175

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