Month: June 2023
Human Fall Flat 2 announced with a suitably chaotic reveal trailer
Human Fall Flat 2 has been revealed at the Devolver Digital Showcase. No release date has been announced yet, however, the physics-based platformer is expected for PC and all major console platforms. Equal parts construction and destruction are the name of the game here, which is very much on brand…
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Feds charge two men for the $400 million Bitcoin hack that took down Mt. Gox
The US federal government has charged two Russian nationals in connection with the series of hacks that brought down the Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange in 2014. In a press release on Friday, the Department of Justice announced it’s unsealing a 2019 indictment charging (PDF) Alexey Bilyuchenko and Aleksandr Verner with…
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Call of Duty removes streamer’s skin after homophobic comments
The Nickmercs operator skin has been removed from the Modern Warfare 2 and Call of Duty: Warzone shop due to Nickmercs making homophobic comments. Activision Blizzard tweeted about the skin’s removal after a popular Call of Duty updates account remarked on it. “It appears Activision has removed the Nickmercs bundle…
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Activision removes Nickmercs Call of Duty skin from game following anti-LGBT tweet
Activision has removed FaZe Clan co-founder Nickmercs’ Call of Duty skin from the in-game store following the backlash from comments the streamer made on social media. The skin, which was available in both Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Call of Duty: Warzone, has now been removed with immediate…
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Hackers are attacking Minecraft to push malware once again
Hackers were seen, once again, using Minecraft to distribute infostealers among the gaming community, capable of hijacking cryptocurrency transactions, stealing Discord authentication tokens, as well as cookies and login data saved in browsers. According to cybersecurity researchers at Bitdefender, unknown hackers managed to compromise several developer accounts on CurseForge and…
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You can finally buy a Matter smart lock
You wait for ages for a Matter-compatible smart lock, and then three come along at once. Aqara’s $189.99 Smart Lock U100, which was announced at CES, is available starting today. It’s compatible with Apple Home Key through HomeKit and has beta support for Matter through an Aqara hub. SwitchBot is…
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