In September 2018, Shadow of the Tomb Raider was released – that’s nearly seven years ago – and in 2022, it was announced that a new Tomb Raider game would be developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Amazon Games using the Unreal 5 engine. […]
As I’ve mentioned already in other articles, the UK Online Safety Act (OSA) now requires UK visitors to certain websites, such as Reddit, Spotify, and Wikipedia, to verify their age with a selfie or other means of ID. It’s worth noting here that national ID
A couple of weeks ago, a client phoned asking me to take a look at some laptops so that she could decide which ones to keep and which to give away to people in need. I had known the lady for some years, long before
Hot on the heels of the recent enforcement of the British Online Safety Act, which is supposed to protect children online, gaming is now being targeted by Collective Shout, an Australian campaign group formed to stop sexploitation in video games. All well and good, up
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In May 2025, Rockstar Games confirmed that the much-anticipated GTA VI will be released on May 26, 2026. But there was no mention of which platforms it would be released on. One has to assume that consoles will be first, followed by PCs a year
Many Years Ago In A Welsh Mining Village… I’m told that when I was two or three years old, I contracted meningitis and was confined to a sanatorium for a month or two. My parents could only see me from behind a glass screen, but
UK Online Safety Act (OSA) From July 25, all companies that come under the scope of this act must introduce measures to protect children and those under the age of 18 in the UK. This means age verification using facial age estimation, driver’s license, bank
I’m currently watching “Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War,” a nine-part Netflix documentary that explores how two world superpowers changed the course of history. With over 100 interviews and archival footage, this remarkable documentary takes us from the probability of the Nazis developing
As outlined in You Don’t Own Your Video Games! and Ubisoft EULA Tells Gamers To Destroy Copies Of Games, a campaign to prevent games from disappearing was started by Ross Scott, aka Accursed Farms, spurred on by Ubisoft’s decision to shut down the servers for
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Not content with being lambasted by the gaming community for completely shutting down The Crew, which sparked the movement Stop Killing Games, Ubisoft has sneakily amended its EULA (End User License Agreement) with the following lines: 8. TERMINATION. …this EULA will terminate automatically if You
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With Google dominating the advertising and SEO sectors, this is a question that I have frequently been asking myself of late because many of the titles of YouTube videos and tech articles scream clickbait. But more than that, most websites need advertising revenue to survive,
We’re only halfway through the year, and with the unstoppable rise of AI in the tech industry, we’ve already seen around 100,000 jobs disappear, so we should be very worried. According to a report from Final Round AI, about 500 tech workers are losing their
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Following Microsoft laying off more than 9000 employees recently, it’s emerged that Turn 10, the Microsoft-owned studio that produces Forza Motorsport (FM), has suffered badly from the hatchet with over 50% layoffs. The Forza Motorsport franchise was first launched in May 2005, with the latest
Recently, I’ve been watching YouTube videos about social decline and living standards in the UK, my home country. As a result, the YouTube algorithm, which has become razor sharp of late, has been showing me everything related to this topic. Yesterday, I stumbled across a
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