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With GTA 6 leaker hunt ‘rapidly evolving,’ Take-Two asks court to keep latest subpoena request sealed to avoid tipping off leakers

The Grand Theft Auto 6 leak party is presumably over: The Netflix showcase has wrapped, and Cyberleek has made off with more than $200,000 in a perfectly predictable yet somehow still very lucrative rug pull. I imagine the leaker is now looking for a good hole to hide in, and for their sake it better

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Some of WoW’s hardest dungeons and raids have gotten just a bit easier—that’s on purpose, developers say

World of Warcraft’s developers are making some subtle shifts in dungeons and raids to help players with its more-difficult content, in the hopes that a variety of knock-on effects result, including increased participation in the game overall and a better balance of tanks, healers and damage dealers. In the case of WoW’s timed-dungeon Mythic Plus

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Haunted Chocolatier’s development has been ‘very productive’ in recent months, Eric Barone says: ‘Working on Haunted Chocolatier is what I’m most eager and driven to do’

We find ourselves at the end of another month, and as ever, the passing phases of the moon leave us asking the same question: What’s going on with Haunted Chocolatier? Knowing all too well how the hungry masses clamor for details about his next game, Stardew Valley developer Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone has posted another of

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I added player-seeking hit squads to GTA 5, though the billion other mods I have installed keep getting in their way

It is high time I paid for my crimes. There are things I’ve done that can’t be forgiven, mostly relating to that time I drove a Chinese anti-air missile truck into Beverly Hills, and someone should make me face consequences for that. Alas, in GTA 5, no one will unless I make them. So I

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Blizzard doing ‘a thorough scrub’ of illegitimate World of Warcraft Mythic-Plus dungeon rankings, with more changes to come

Blizzard is scrubbing through its new World of Warcraft Mythic Plus Dungeon top-1% rankings for people who paid for carries, World of Warcraft game director Ion Hazzikostas says. The timed dungeon mode offered its first-ever rewards at that level this past season in the Midnight expansion, which ended August 11. Unlike similar high-end rewards in

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Empulse and Splitgate: Arena Reloaded are officially over as 1047 Games says it’s probably done making arena shooters

Just two months after the release of the PvP arena shooter Empulse, 1047 Games is halting work on the game and its predecessor, Splitgate: Arena Reloaded, saying that neither is making enough money to support their operating costs. The studio itself will remain but its “focus is changing,” and its next game “may look very

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One of Elden Ring’s top sleuths has already unmasked its new DLC characters

Longtime FromSoftware dataminer Zullie the Witch has come out with a new video showing off the close-up details of Elden Ring’s two new NPC invaders. Knight Leontiel and Noble Broken Mask were both added to the game as part of Elden Ring’s Tarnished Edition DLC. Knight Leontiel is a straight “hey, I know them” reference

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After the debacle of Cyberpunk 2077, CD Projekt says The Witcher 4 is already running on PC and consoles, promises ‘it’s going to run’ on all target platforms

Cyberpunk 2077 now is one of the best RPGs money can buy. But Cyberpunk 2077 then, which is to say when it was new, was not. It was pretty okay on PC, aside from a horde of bugs, but it was such a performance catastrophe on the PlayStation 4 that Sony literally booted it off

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