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Brits can get around Discord’s age verification thanks to Death Stranding’s photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK’s Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima

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Today saw the full introduction of the requirements outlined in the Online Safety Act in the UK, requiring “robust” age checks for users to access adult content online. People have already managed to find ways around at least some of these verification requirements after *checks watch* less than 24 hours. Earlier today, our James stumbled … Read more

Gabe Newell says he founded Valve after Doom showed him Microsoft ‘was missing the opportunity’ offered by the internet: ‘I was willing to sort of put my money where my mouth was’

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We all know the story of how Valve was founded. Gabe Newell, born beneath a rainbow on Mt Paektu, was visited by an archangel in his quarters and charged to build Half-Life. Then he was charged to build a Half-Life patch tool called Steam that remains inexplicably popular to this day. In return, he was … Read more

The young Gabe Newell thought he’d be a doctor until he ended up visiting his brother at Microsoft, where ‘Steve Ballmer got mad and said ‘If you’re going to be hanging out here, why don’t you do something useful?”

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Valve co-founder and yacht-loving billionaire Gabe Newell has given a new interview to the YouTuber Zalkar Saliev (TikTok, IG). It’s a wide-ranging chat that covers everything from Newell’s earliest jobs to his current daily routine (“get up, work, go scuba diving”), and it turns out that the young Newell loved programming, but had no thoughts … Read more

The first ‘real videogame’ Gabe Newell played was Star Trek, where you made your choices via punch cards before running over to the printer: ‘It usually takes about 15 minutes to do a move’

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Valve co-founder and yacht-loving billionaire Gabe Newell has granted a new interview to the YouTuber Zalkar Saliev (TikTok, IG). The chat covers everything from Newell’s current daily routine (“get up, work, go scuba diving”) to his earliest days as a programmer: and how he ended up at Microsoft. One particularly interesting digression comes when Newell … Read more

Wordle today: Answer and hint #1498 for July 26

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It’s the weekend, and that means you’ve earned yourself a little break. Relax, you’re about to win today’s Wordle. If you’d like that win to come in the form of a clue for the July 26 (1498) puzzle, then we’ve got just the thing you need. Take a peek right now or at any point … Read more

After selling to Krafton, Last Epoch dev says fans shouldn’t be worried about the Subnautica 2 dispute: ‘Krafton isn’t looking to change us’

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Fans of action RPG Last Epoch are understandably worried about today’s news that the studio behind it has been acquired by the publisher that’s currently being sued by a group of recently-ousted Subnautica 2 developers. Judd Cobler, founder of Eleventh Hour Games, said there’s nothing to worry about in a series of posts on the … Read more

Gabe Newell on the difference between billionaires and the rest of us: ‘an awful lot of luck’

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Gabe Newell Full Interview (2025) – AI, Gaming & Success – YouTube Watch On In a lengthy interview with YouTuber Zalkar Saliev (TikTok, Instagram), Valve co-founder Gabe Newell attributed his billions to “luck” and “being surrounded by great people.” Asked whether there’s a difference between enormously wealthy entrepreneurs and everyone else, Newell said that the … Read more

A Wolfenstein TV series is in development by the Fallout TV series people: ‘The story of killing Nazis is evergreen’

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Variety reports that Amazon is developing a Wolfenstein TV series with Patrick Somerville, who made post-apocalyptic miniseries Station Eleven and wrote some of HBO’s The Leftovers (a show with a genuinely good twist), and Kilter Films, the production company behind Amazon’s Fallout TV show. Variety says that the show’s being pitched with the one-sentence description: … Read more

Fans claim Blizzard’s new Diablo Immortal x Hearthstone art was made with generative AI

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The ear is the most convincing part of Reddit user Ipyreable’s post that claims artwork posted by official Diablo Immortal social media accounts was created with generative AI. Human ears simply do not look like that, even in the fantasy universes of Warcraft and Diablo. The art, which depicts a Warcraft character playing Hearthstone against … Read more