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[Link] Valve bans Cities: Skylines modder accused of hiding malicious code in mods
Read: 14/2/2022 www.pcgamer.com
If you used Cities: Skylines mods from a user known as Chaos or Holy Water, it's probably worth unsubscribing from them, as a post on the Cities: Skylines subreddit explains.
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[Link] Coder Spends 1,200 Hours Piecing Together Diablo's Source Code
Read: 29/11/2021 kotaku.com
If not for a few oversights on Blizzard’s part, the original Diablo’s source code would likely be lost to time. However, thanks to those oversights and some serious dedication from one coder, people can now see (and tinker around with) what makes Diablo tick.
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[Link] Ocarina Of Time's Source Code Has Been Reverse Engineered
Read: 29/11/2021 kotaku.com
In 2019, the source code for Super Mario 64 was reverse engineered, leading to all kinds of wonderful mods and even ports to systems like the Dreamcast and PlayStation 2. Now it’s Ocarina of Time’s turn.
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[Link] DRM Breaking Games Again, This Time Due To New Intel Chip Architecture
Read: 22/11/2021 www.techdirt.com
We were just discussing how Denuvo's inability to renew one of its domains suddenly prevented lots of paying customers from playing several of their paid-for video games.
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[Link] Denuvo-Protected Games Rendered Unplayable After Domain Expires
Read: 21/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
Last evening the web was alive with angry players who couldn't play their games due to an unexpected error.
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[Link] Halo Infinite's Battle Pass Sucks, Fans Say
Read: 19/11/2021 kotaku.com
Did you just eek out a nail biting victory in a Big Team Battle Slayer match? Bash a bunch of your fellow Spartans’ heads in with a flaming skull in Oddball? Capture a ton of objectives in Total Control, putting big numbers on the board for all your PVP comrades to see? Halo Infinite’s battle pa
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[Link] Battlefield 2042 players are demanding a traditional scoreboard
Read: 14/11/2021 www.pcgamer.com
Battlefield 2042 has only just launched for those who buy into the game early (you can read out review-in-progress here), and players already have a wishlist of changes for DICE to implement. Chief among them, judging by BF2042's official subreddit, is a traditional in-game scoreboard.
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[Link] Cyberpunk Mod Gives V A Different Apartment Depending On Lifepath
Read: 25/10/2021 www.thegamer.com
One thing that was a little overblown in Cyberpunk 2077's promotional material was the significance of your lifepath. Originally, it seemed like this would dictate how the whole world treated you, influencing your outcome in Night City.
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[Link] Destroy All Humans! 2 Remake Skipping Old Consoles So Devs Can Create Bigger, More Detailed Maps
Read: 25/10/2021 www.kotaku.com.au
The devs behind THQ Nordic’s Destroy All Humans! 2 remake, out sometime next year, explained recently in an interview why the remake of the cult classic game is avoiding PS4, Xbox One, and Switch.
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[Link] Playing ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ How It’s ‘Supposed’ To Be Played Is Lifechanging
Read: 12/10/2021 www.forbes.com
Yesterday, I got a new PC from PowerGPU after my old one died last week. I could have repaired it, and I probably still will, but I figured it was time for an upgrade anyway. The first game I installed after I got it set up? Cyberpunk 2077.
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[Link] Grand Theft Auto modders that tried to get around a DMCA claim get walloped with Take-Two lawsuit
Read: 7/10/2021 www.pcgamer.com
The existence of the GTA Trilogy remaster was more-or-less confirmed by the Korean ratings board last week, but the rumours have been gathering pace for a while: not least because Rockstar parent company Take-Two has been getting very heavy-handed with modders of the original games on PC.
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[Link] ‘Warzone’ Bans 100,000 Cheaters in Largest Ban Wave Yet
Read: 25/8/2021 www.vice.com
The makers of the popular first-person shooter Call of Duty just banned more than 100,000 accounts for cheating in what is the largest ban wave in the game's history. On Wednesday, Raven Software, the developer of the free-to-play Call of Duty: Warzone, announced the bans in a tweet.
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[Link] New Stellaris update will let you play a race of decadent Star Wars clone troopers
Read: 22/8/2021 www.pcgamesn.com
Grand strategy game Stellaris is gearing up for another free update next month, which will include new content for past Stellaris DLC in addition to the usual round of fixes and improvements.
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[Link] Valheim Update Making a Big Gameplay Change
Read: 21/8/2021 comicbook.com
The upcoming Valheim Hearth & Home update is making a big gameplay change. Valheim remains 2020's surprise big hit, and while buzz around the game isn't what it was a few months ago, millions continue to play the early access survival game.
[Link] This Week In Modding: Legendary Skyrim Mod Deleted, DMCAs Issued, And More
Read: 15/8/2021 www.thegamer.com
New ways to play Skyrim, and DMCA takedown notices - yep, it’s been a pretty standard week in the modding community.
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[Link] Team Fortress 2 Fans Are Rebuilding The Game With Latest Tech
Read: 15/8/2021 kotaku.com
An independent group of developers recently announced their intentions to port Team Fortress 2 to the upcoming Source 2 engine, and the early results of their work—an aptly named project known as Team Fortress: Source 2—already look amazing.
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[Link] Studio Dunks On Cyberpunk 2077 While Explaining Open-World Game Delay
Read: 15/8/2021 kotaku.com
If players are going to dunk on Cyberpunk 2077, it was only a matter of time before other game studios did it too.
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[Link] Battle Royale Players Upset Their Early Kills Were Actually Just Bots
Read: 14/8/2021 kotaku.com
Naraka: Bladepoint, a parkour melee battle royale out today for PC, starts you off in a match against bots.
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[Link] Back 4 Blood's PvP Versus mode has too many hiding places for humans
Read: 7/8/2021 www.rockpapershotgun.com
I had a grand old time blasting through the open beta of Back 4 Blood's campaign mode earlier this week, and I'm pretty sure everyone from Left 4 Dead diehards to complete newbies like myself will have an equally fun romp with it when the open beta starts for real on August 12th.
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[Link] Battlefield has free-to-play in its future, says EA
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vg247.com
As EA positions Battlefield to be more of an ongoing live service, the publisher is investing in other entry points.
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[Link] Evil Dead: The Game slipped to 2022, but at least now it’ll have a solo option
Read: 7/8/2021 www.destructoid.com
Evil Dead is one of those entities that I just can’t shake (not that I’m trying to), and all these years later, a whole lot of other people still seem to feel the same way.
[Link] The Hearts of Iron 4 Soviet rework is so big it needed its own design team
Read: 5/8/2021 www.pcgamesn.com
Paradox Interactive employees are coming back from their summer break, which means only one thing – dev diaries are starting up again! The Hearts of Iron IV team has kicked things into high gear with a new diary – the first that will look at all of the changes coming to the Soviet Union as part
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[Link] Second Life is banning gacha style transactions next month
Read: 4/8/2021 www.pcgamer.com
It may be approaching its 20th birthday, but Second Life is still enormously popular: It still attracts daily player counts of over 50,000, and its self-contained economy was worth $500 million back in 2018.
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[Link] Pokémon no go? Players revolt as Niantic sends them back outside
Read: 4/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
The developer of Pokémon Go is facing a player revolt after rolling back safety measures implemented at the onset of the pandemic last year. Niantic, the Google subsidiary which released the smash hit mobile game in 2016, had reacted to the onset of the pandemic by tweaking how its games work.
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[Link] How one game’s delisting pokes a hole in the Xbox Game Pass promise
Read: 31/7/2021 arstechnica.com
Microsoft has long boasted about the backward compatibility of its Xbox consoles, letting you play hundreds of past-gen games on newer systems like the Series X/S.
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[Link] Even Flying to the Battlefield Is About to Become Dangerous in PUBG
Read: 31/7/2021 www.ign.com
Dropping into the battlefield in PUBG is about to become even more perilous, as the game adds an emergency landing feature to its latest update. The patch notes for update 13.
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