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Cabal of 'gay furry hackers' claims over 3,000 files stolen in NATO website breach (www.pcgamer.com)

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SteamOS will be coming to other handhelds before you can install it on your PC 'because right now, it's very, very tuned for Steam Deck' (www.pcgamer.com)

Bethesda says most of Starfield's 1000+ planets are dull on purpose (www.pcgamer.com)

Palworld server costs near $500K per month as network engineer is ordered to 'never let the service go down no matter what' (www.pcgamer.com)

Official Minecraft wiki editors so furious at Fandom's 'degraded' functionality and popups they're overwhelmingly voting to leave the site (www.pcgamer.com)

Indie dev baffled after acquaintance clones his game, puts it on Steam, and acts like it's no big deal: 'Happens every day homie' (www.pcgamer.com)

Linux overtakes Mac as Steam's second-most used OS, and it's all thanks to the Steam Deck (www.pcgamer.com)

Microsoft's Bitlocker & TPM encryption combo defeated with a $10 Raspberry Pi (www.pcgamer.com)

Microsoft’s Bitlocker & TPM encryption combo defeated with a $10 Raspberry Pi::The point of Microsoft’s Bitlocker security feature is to protect personal data stored locally on devices and particularly when those devices are lost or otherwise physically compromised. With Bi

Ubisoft is stripping people's licences for The Crew weeks after its shutdown, nearly squandering hopes of fan servers and acting as a stark reminder of how volatile digital ownership is (www.pcgamer.com)

The Steam Deck's budget price tag is the reason I still rate it nearly two years on (www.pcgamer.com)

The RTS genre will never be mainstream unless you change it until it's 'no longer the kind of RTS that I want to play,' says Crate Entertainment CEO (www.pcgamer.com)

Videogame fantasy settings are staler than mouldy bread right now (www.pcgamer.com)

Ubisoft insists yet again that its uncanny AI-generated 'NEO-NPCs' will make games 'more alive and richer', whatever that means (www.pcgamer.com)

Making good, profitable games 'will no longer keep you safe': industry expresses fury and heartbreak over closure of Hi-Fi Rush and Prey studios (www.pcgamer.com)

This fan-made HD PC port of Zelda: Link's Awakening is so cool I can't believe Nintendo hasn't taken it down yet (www.pcgamer.com)

Games consoles are infuriatingly exempt from California's otherwise important new right to repair bill (www.pcgamer.com)

California, the biggest state in the US when it comes to both population and the sheer volume of tech companies squeezed into its borders, has just passed the country's most extreme right to repair bill in the US (via Ars Technica). It's the third state to pass such a bill, but goes further than either Minnesota or New York in...

The recent criticism of Linus Tech Tips, explained (www.pcgamer.com)

Families of Uvalde victims sue Activision, say Call of Duty is 'the most prolific and effective marketer of assault weapons in the United States' (www.pcgamer.com)

German government wants games like Baldur's Gate 3 to 'also go on to be developed in Germany' (www.pcgamer.com)

'We don't have shareholders, but we also don't think about them,' Larian Studios uses its stage time at the DICE Awards to speak out against a brutal industry climate (www.pcgamer.com)

Cities: Skylines 2 devs warn players of performance problems: 'we have not achieved the benchmark we targeted' (www.pcgamer.com)

Ahead of the city builder's release on October 24, the devs want to "manage expectations on performance."

Bards are Baldur's Gate 3's best class and I can't imagine playing it as anything else (www.pcgamer.com)

I was planning on paying a rogue, paladin, or warlock (based on my tabletop characters), but this article nearly has me convinced. I am waiting for the PS5 release, so any agreement or dissension from my PC friends? Other class recommendations?...