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Rockstar developer union could end up over 1,600 workers strong and encompass nearly all UK staff below senior management, IWGB claim
As we've previously covered, a vote on recognition of a union made up of UK-based Rockstar Games devs is set to take place around GTA 6's console launch on November 19th. The Independent Workers of Great Britain (IWGB) union, whom the Rockstar staff are working with in their efforts to organise, have now revealed just… read more
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Dark Souls 2 and Dark Souls 3's online servers are temporarily going dark, FromSoftware announces
Things might get even darker over in the world of Lordran without those silly, only sometimes helpful notes left by other players. Developer FromSoftware has announced that it's temporarily closing Dark Souls 2 and Dark Souls 3 servers because of an unspecified issue. Read more Read Full Article read more
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Ghostly Cat’s Head Nebula haunts the cosmos | Space photo of the day for Oct. 30, 2026
Just in time for Halloween, we have new, ghostly views of the Cat's Eye Nebula haunting the outer reaches of the cosmos. Source: www.space.com Read Full Story read more
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Phantom Blade Zero kicks off its launch with a day one patch that offers improvements to ray tracing and some bug fixes to boot
If you've been hankering for some video gamey wuxia shenanigans, today seems like a good day for it, given that Phantom Blade Zero has now been released unto the world (with a 145GB install size that's technically actually 300GB but only for a bit). And like many big games before it, it comes not quite… read more
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"A cold dead place that's slowly decaying" – EA employees reveal a culture of secrecy and terrible morale following layoffs
Last week, EA announced it's laying off 400 workers across multiple studios, cancelling projects and refocusing on its biggest money-makers. As part of that, EA closed down the iconic BioWare studio, letting go of most of its remaining staff of around 50 people. Read more Read Full Article read more
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A Brief-ish History of METI. Part II: From Interplanetary to Interstellar
The latter half of the 20th century saw a major expansion of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), accompanied by corresponding advances in Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI). A key development was the first interstellar SETI and METI experiments: Project Ozma and the Arecibo Message. Source: www.universetoday.com Read Full Story read more
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Queen's Domain is a brilliant King's Field-alike RPG that forces you to walk so you can learn to fly
FromSoftware's elderly King's Field games aren't really celebrated for their feeling of agility. They are glorious first-person trudgefests, a treacle-thick waltz of swinging and spellcraft, with players wobbling in and out of attack range like British men who aren't sure whether the other man wants a hug. Unlike in the later Dark Souls action-RPGs, to… read more
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It sounds like you shouldn't expect Destiny 2's campaign unvaulting to be ready until 2028, as Bungie tease their plans for the future of the series
When Bungie announced that they would be ceasing to work on major updates for Destiny 2 earlier this year, it obviously felt like that was the end of that, and any future games were not guaranteed whatsoever. Then last month, they announced that they'll be bringing back all of the shooter's vaulted campaigns, which is… read more
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It’s a Ghost! No, It’s a Stellar Crèche!
Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO), the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) zeroed in on a wispy-looking region of the Carina Nebula and found a ghostly looking cloud seemingly floating in isolation among the other clouds of gas and dust. Just in time for Hallowe'en, although, it turns out that little cloud isn't the… read more
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🆓 Free: Hexologic is free to keep on Steam — a clever little puzzle game for Sudoku fans
The free-to-keep offer ends on October 31, 2026, so claim it before then. The post Hexologic is free to keep on Steam — a clever little puzzle game for Sudoku fans appeared first on Indie Game Bundles. 🆓 Claim Free Game read more
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Celeste and TowerFall have been removed from the Xbox store in a move to "support the BDS boycott" against Microsoft
It's a good day to love Celeste! Earlier today it was discovered that Celeste had been removed from the Xbox Store while it remained on the PlayStation and Nintendo digital storefronts. Now, as shared by the game's co-creator Maddy Thorson, it's been confirmed that both Celeste and TowerFall were removed from store expressly in support… read more
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GTA 6 has a smell reaction system, which immediately joins Red Dead Redemption 2's dynamically shrinking horse balls on Rockstar's list of immersive symbols of excess
Any reminder of Red Dead Redemption 2's temperature sensitive horse testicles brings a smile to my face. In truth, I can't say I've ever zoomed in close enough to properly take in the spectacle of Arthur Morgan's mount having its nuts dynamically expand and contract based on whether he's riding through snowy mountains or across… read more