It’s happening again—another NBN provider is offering a huge speed increase ahead of September’s big NBN 500 roll out

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After years of suffering famously average internet, Australia’s NBN is making sweeping changes in 2025 to bring it up to speed. Not only is fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) being rolled out to more and more homes, but come September, NBN 100 plans will automatically become NBN 500 plans (for fibre-serviced homes). Naturally, providers are scrambling to offer … Read more

At long last and ‘with gracious permission from Valve,’ Garry’s Mod now contains ‘most of Counter-Strike: Source and Half-Life 2 Episodic content’ even if you don’t own those games

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So long, pink checkerboards that represent missing textures! Adiós, pitch-black skies that signify an absent skybox! Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, enormous 3D model that says ERROR where a car should be! Those have been common sights for users of Garry’s Mod for, oh, let’s see… 20 years or so? … Read more

7 years on, CliffyB is ‘still bitter’ about people gravedancing when his studio Boss Key failed: ‘It was amazing at first and then, well, it broke me for a good long while’

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Storied game designer Cliff “CliffyB” Bleszinski, who worked at Epic Games in the Unreal days and was lead designer on the first Gears of War trilogy, recently celebrated a bittersweet anniversary. “11 years ago I started Boss Key. Sigh. It was amazing at first and then, well, it broke me for a good long while,” … Read more

World of Warcraft Classic player loses world first race by 2 minutes and 22 seconds after someone decided to verify it just in case

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The launch of any new World of Warcraft expansion, Classic or not, always begins with the fastest players racing to see who can reach the new level cap first. For Mists of Pandaria Classic, which dropped earlier this week, players competed to see who could blast through level 85 to 90 before anyone else. When … Read more

Oh, hell yeah—this indie dev is making a Valkyria Chronicles-inspired mecha game

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Sometimes the world delivers you a bit of proof that you’ve done a good job cultivating your online environment. For me, that proof was seeing RPG Site post on Bluesky about Ironwing Valiant: Record of Astera—a Valkyria Chronicles-inspired mecha action game from indie studio Tiger Team—and watching as a bunch of sickos near-instantly flooded my … Read more

The UK government gets into bed with OpenAI as heroic professor decries ‘policymakers and idiots around the world getting sucked into this hype-fest… terrible, terrible companies, just crazy’

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The United Kingdom’s Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) has signed a new “memorandum of understanding” with OpenAI, a non-binding document that will nevertheless see the unaccountable chatbot maker thrusting its technology into any area of the UK public sector that smells vaguely like money. Ain’t life grand. For its part, the UK’s Labour … Read more