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Riot believes League of Legends 'mage bot' strats are "healthy diversity" and "need to be viable"

'Slopfix': A software team is charging up to $10,000 to clean up AI-generated code, with the help of *checks notes* AI

Who fixes the fixes?

Valve's magical play-Windows-games-on-Linux tech is rebased, updated, and ready to play Resident Evil

Just like me.

Become King Dracula's personal vamp-assassin in Vampirium: 1997, an immersive sim Bithell Games are launching into Steam early access soon

Remember the 90s? Oasis were unavoidable, Tony Blair stalked the halls of power, and Dracula sat on the English throne. Wait, what was that last one? Turns out I'm thinking of Vampirium: 1997, a fanged immersive sim Tron: Catalyst and John Wick Hex devs Bithell Games are launching into Steam early access soon. Read more

The Blood of Dawnwalker's most interesting mechanic took a bite out of my inner RPG completionist, who would've otherwise played hooky with a witch

Ignoring a quest becomes a roleplay option when the clock's ticking.

China's National Vulnerability Database warns that recent Claude Code models have a security backdoor

An update seems in order.

Vampirium: 1997 is a mysterious looking choice-filled minimalist immersive sim

Vampirium: 1997 looks like nothing else. A minimalist story-rich immersive sim that's coming from Bithell Games.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Mortal Shell II set for release on August 20

If you love challenging combat - Mortal Shell II may be one for you to pick up when it arrives on August 20th.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Subnautica 2's olive branch to fend off threats is just enough to preserve the terror

You're invited to Destiny's cursed unofficial final raid: Pete Carsons' Vault of Cars

A dash of nostalgia and a pint of snark.

GTA Trilogy remaster boss understands fan anger but says 'a lot of people were playing them and really enjoying them'

The remasters were, you might say, busted.

Goals is building an exciting esports ecosystem "where everyone can compete"

Two men plead guilty to stealing over £71,000 worth of Pokémon TCG in a string of burglaries targeting small card stores

One man has been sentenced to 29 months in prison.

Xbox boss Asha Sharma pins layoffs on Phil Spencer's regime spreading the company "too thin", while claiming a "a healthy Xbox" could weather the RAM storm

Xbox laid off around 1600 people earlier this week, revealing plans to part ways with five studios at the same time. Naturally, boss Asha Sharma's been tasked with justifying it all, and she's now gotten as close as she likely ever will to pointing the finger directly at Phil Spencer's regime, while claming that if Xbox were doing well, the RAM crisis would've been something the company could just tank their way through. Read more

Here's the Black Flag Resynced release time for your region

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me.

Cat Mail Co. is a cosy game where you run a post office for cats, and I wish it let me snoop into their private lives

I love to hold a stranger's post. Letters are good. Though, those padded protective envelopes are better – what's inside that needs that extra level of protection?. But a box, especially one whose contents move a little inside when you tilt it. Oh, that mystery is the most marvelous. It could be anything in there. Stolen jewellery, returned love letters, coffee maker pods. Anything. Given the chance to run a post office, I'd like to think I would be a responsible guardian for everyone's m

LiberNovo Omni Pro review

An already excellent ergonomic gaming chair gets nicer fabric, smarter tricks, and a higher price—without really changing how it feels to sit in.

Geekom A9 Max AI AMD Mini PC review

We're looking at a single-channel RAM kit here, folks.

Past Midnight: building the next era of World of Warcraft

How does World of Warcraft stay relevant in 2026 and beyond?

"A mentor and an inspiration to many": Skywind devs pay tribute to modder Kettlewitch, whose death has left another Skyrim mod's future up in the air

The team behind Morrowind remake mod Skywind have paid tribute to modder Kettlewitch, a veteran of the Skyrim modding scene, following his death on June 15th. Kettlewitch, real name David Purcell, also worked on a number of other ambitious Skyrim modding projects over the years, including Oblivion remake Skyblivion and Thras: The Coral Kingdom, with the latter's future now looking uncertain. Read more

WoW Classic player hits 60 on hardcore self-found with every class, decides that isn't enough, does a naked run for good measure

"Naked fire mage was a damn cat with 9 lives."

Minecraft finally adds seats after 17 years, but the potential for builders is even bigger

Valve has released Windows drivers for the Steam machine, y'know for the three people who managed to buy one and inexplicably want a different OS

Not many have been made, the device is hella expensive, and Windows is not made for the living room while Steam OS is. Otherwise, great news.

Super variants of the RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, and RTX 5070 have cropped up in Seasonic's PSU calculator, suggesting we may see Nvidia's long-lost GPUs yet

CES 2027, perhaps?