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Somehow, Suicide Squad biffs it again: Just 2 days before it was set to go live, season 2 is delayed
Back in 2016, Paul Lilly wrote one of my favorite PC Gamer headlines ever: "Watch this guy biff it in real life while rock climbing in VR." It came to mind again earlier today, not in regards to virtual rock climbing but Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, which at the very last minute has slammed the brakes on the launch of its second season.
After Fallout 4's update got the game-sized mod indefinitely delayed, Fallout: London team is now "waiting for the final green light"
Fallout: London, the "game-sized" Fallout 4 conversion mod taking the nuclear post-apocalypse to the English capital, is nearing a full release.
Darktide's next update promises a complete overhaul of weapon progression: 'We took the philosophy with this game to not be afraid of doing quite massive changes'
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide may have had a rocky launch back in 2022, but you certainly can't fault developer Fatshark's dedication to improving its grimdark creation in the time since. While we have had new missions, enemies, and weapons, the biggest focus in the game's updates thus far has been improving the core experience and basic systems, from performance fixes to crafting changes to a complete overhaul of class progression.
An infamous dataset of leaked login details, updated last week, now houses 9,948,575,739 passwords and poses the biggest threat to our online security ever
Check your passwords, people, because if there was ever a good reason to not reuse the same password, or even variants of the same password, then the latest version of the RockYou collection of leaked or stolen passwords must surely be it. With almost 10 billion unique passwords, the dataset is the largest source of genuine login details, from all around the world, making the risk of cyberattacks as high as it's ever been.
More Xbox Layoffs at Microsoft Inbound This Week, Tom Warren Claims
Following layoffs this January and studio closures in May, Microsoft is cutting more Xbox jobs this week, the Verge's Tom Warren has claimed.
Paid Character Transfer Service Update Ahead
With the launch of The War Within™ pre-expansion content update arriving on July 23, we will be disabling the Paid Character Transfer (PCT) service for transfers between Battle.net® accounts.
Besiege's watery expansion will get a patch adding new missions, giant sharks, tentacled horrors of the deep
Besiege will get an expanded expansion as the Splintered Sea campaign receives an update on the 22nd of July, later this month. With new levels, new challenges, and new enemies to defeat/hazards to avoid it'll be a beefing up of an expansion that some players found underwhelming. Included in that are some very large sharks and a betentacled beastie.