Rockstar is the victim of one of the biggest data breaches in gaming history. It’s not only a blow to developers – it’s a loss for fans Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here It’s been a giant week for video game news. Nintendo announced a release date of 5 May …
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This interactive series follows four friends as they navigate LA’s cut-throat music scene via heartfelt writing, playable music videos and lots of texting Gorillaz may be the most famous example of a virtual band, at least in the west. Elsewhere, virtual idol Hatsune Miku is omnipresent, her personality projected on to her by fans. Four-piece …
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The writer, who learned her craft playing 90s adventure games, on her love letter to a lifelong passion, the problematic aspects of the industry and the transformative power of play Games have always been a part of writer Gabrielle Zevin’s life. Her first experience, she recalls, was playing Pac-Man at the Honolulu hotel where her …
Cameras on turbines being trained to recognise lesser spotted eagles, which are endangered in country Small in size, sensitive of constitution and with only 130 breeding pairs surviving locally in the wild, the lesser spotted eagle of the Oder delta lives up to its name. In Germany, key questions over the country’s energy future hang …
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PC, Nintendo Switch; Terrible Toybox/Devolver DigitalAgeing fans will be relieved to learn that this comeback game from Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman is not just a greatest hits rehash Far out on the high seas, under the scorching Caribbean sun, a soft-hearted and lovably useless pirate named Guybrush Threepwood has to face a difficult question. …
A major data breach has given the world an early look at Grand Theft Auto 6. Why is this such bad news for the developer? In the early hours of 18 September, a poster on GTAForums going by the name teapotuberhacker posted about 90 videos, totalling 50 minutes of footage from an in-development version of …
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The extent to which private companies should be held responsible for online content is a global issue yet to be resolved Get our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcast As the internet continues to evolve from its earlier days as an unregulated wild west, the big debates about what people should …
Owners report opening camera in apps such as TikTok and Instagram leads to grinding sounds and vibrations in entire phone A major bug in Apple’s latest iPhone is causing the camera to physically fail when using apps such as TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram, some owners have reported. The bug in the company’s iPhone 14 Pro …
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Video and images posted online as hacker also threatens to leak source code for Grand Theft Auto V and VI More than 90 videos and images of Grand Theft Auto VI, the long-awaited follow-up to 2013’s Grand Theft Auto V, one of the best-selling video games of all time – leaked online over the weekend, …
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With students’ finances overstretched, it’s important to get the right tech at the right price. Here are some of the best deals The end of the summer is here, and with it the start of a new semester at university. The landscape of learning certainly looks brighter than it has for the last couple of …
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