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Forbidden Solitaire is a wonderful reminder games are powerful cultural artefacts that demand to be preserved

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Developer Heartblade Interactive’s Forbidden Solitaire is, you see, extremely 90s; immediately recognisable as an artefact of video gaming’s short-lived multimedia boom, where the advent of the CD-ROM brought promises of a future unbound – albeit a future which mostly involved lurid colour palettes, awkward pre-rendered polygons, and juddery lo-res FMV. Forbidden Solitaire has all these […]

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Marathon director Joe Ziegler leaves Bungie just four months after launch

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In an update posted to Twitter on Friday, Ziegler announced Friday 17th July was his last day at the studio, and that he was “passing the torch of game director” to Del Chafe III and Julia Nardin, insisting: “both of them have been operating in a strong leadership capacity for the team and are ready

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Call of Duty movie will be set in the Modern Warfare universe

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Confirmation came by way of director Peter Berg, who revealed the news at this weekend’s Fanatics Fest. The movie, announced earlier this year, is still set to premiere on 30th June, 2028. If you’re looking for more information, I’m afraid there isn’t any – that’s the entirety of the announcement. But given there’s little else

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Palworld is once again dominating Steam this weekend, clocking up almost 1m concurrent players

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Palworld finally released in full on PC and consoles on 10th July, and while it still hasn’t quite managed to top its massive 2.1m concurrent player peak from early 2024, according to SteamDB this is the second time it’s almost topped the charts as the most played game on Steam of the entire weekend, second

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Game of Thrones: War for Westeros RTS delayed to 2027 to “ensure the game reaches the high level of quality we are aiming for”

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"We remain unwavering in our mission to deliver a real-time strategy game set in the world of Westeros." While at first insisting that development “has been progressing well”, an update posted to the Game of Thrones: War for Westeros’ development blog later revealed the team has decided to push the game back from its original

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Baldur’s Gate 3, Clair Obscur actor Jennifer English withdraws from Tides of Annihilation to “look after her mental and physical health”

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The team has hired an "incredibly talented performer" in her place. English said it had been a “difficult yet personally necessary decision” as the game moves on “into its next phase”. “I’m really grateful to have been part of Tides of Annihilation since the game’s inception and to have worked with such a lovely team,”

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Inside the Search for “Clean” Residential Proxies for Carding

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Residential proxies are no longer treated as a simple anonymity tool in carding circles. They are increasingly discussed as one component of a broader identity-simulation stack, alongside device fingerprints, browser profiles, billing information, time zones, cookies, and transaction behavior. To better understand how criminal actors currently use and evaluate this infrastructure, Flare researchers analyzed 2,889

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HollowByte DDoS flaw bloats OpenSSL server memory with 11-byte payload

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A vulnerability dubbed HollowByte allows unauthenticated attackers to trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition on OpenSSL servers with a malicious payload of just 11 bytes. The OpenSSL team has silently fixed the vulnerability (no identifier assigned) and backported the patch to older releases. Because the OpenSSL software is the foundational backbone for secure internet communication, organizations

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Ernst & Young discloses data breach after support system hack

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Ernst & Young is notifying customers of a data breach caused by the compromise of a third-party support ticket system used by its IT personnel. According to the company, support tickets submitted through the platform may have included documents containing client tax information. Ernst & Young (EY) is among the world’s four largest auditing and

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Abbott probes two cyber incidents amid extortion claims

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Abbott Laboratories is investigating two separate cybersecurity incidents after confirming unauthorized access to internal legacy Exact Sciences systems in its Cancer Diagnostics business, while also investigating a separate claim that attackers breached its LabCentral portal and stole company data. The company confirmed the Cancer Diagnostics incident after the ShinyHunters extortion gang added Abbott to its

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