You've got a narrow window to nab OpenTTD on Steam for free, because Transport Tycoon Deluxe has just been un-abandonwared by Atari

Better days, all-but-gone now. But wait! What's this? Transport Tycoon Deluxe—one of the finest of the Tycoon stable—has ...
Road to VR

Luke Ross Releases PC VR Mod Suite for Free, Excluding Contentious ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ Mod

Prolific VR modder Luke Ross has re-released his R.E.A.L. VR mod suite following a DMCA takedown issued by CD Projekt in January for his paywalled Cyberpunk 2077 VR mod—this time making a bulk of the ...
Wall Street Journal

Pakistan Calls Conflict With Afghanistan ‘Open War’ After Cross-Border Attacks

A long-running conflict between Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Taliban regime has turned into what Pakistan declared Friday to be “open war,” with attacks reported in Kabul and along the neighbors’ shared ...
The Verge

The AI security nightmare is here and it looks suspiciously like lobster

A hacker tricked Cline’s Claude-powered workflow into installing OpenClaw on computers. A hacker tricked Cline’s Claude-powered workflow into installing OpenClaw on computers. is a London-based ...
Scientific American

OpenClaw—what happens when AI stops chatting and starts doing

When a friend messaged me two days ago about Clawdbot—a new open-source AI agent that has since been renamed OpenClaw—I expected yet another disappointing “assistant.” But it was already a viral ...
GamesRadar+

A month after launch, Bully Online mod "is shutting down forever" and being scrubbed from existence as dev assures "this was not something we wanted"

Bully Online's project lead previously dismissed concerns about legal trouble from Rockstar and Take-Two, but if this is what it looks like, he may have spoken too soon When you purchase through links ...
Game Rant

Open-World RPGs That Aged Well Thanks To Mod Support

Vlad Mazanko is Ukraine-based gaming enthusiast, writing about the industry since 2013 and covering everything from games and studios to movies and TV shows. He joined the Valnet family back in 2021, ...
The Escapist

Garry’s Mod successor s&box goes open source to aid with development

The spiritual successor to Garry’s Mod, S&box, is being made open source by the developers over at Facepunch Studios. It’s a slightly odd move for a games studio to do with an actively in-development ...
THE WEEK

The Louvre’s security measures are in hot water after a major heist

While the investigation into the Oct. 19 heist at Paris’ Louvre continues, scrutiny is now focused on the museum’s security measures — or lack thereof. Considered one of the most significant robberies ...
The Escapist

Team Fortress 2 Classic fan throwback mod cuts open beta over Steam bureaucracy

Team Fortress 2 Classic, the fan mod aiming to recreate the 2008 to 2009 period of the game’s nearly 20-year lifespan, has had to scrap its upcoming open beta. The reason for this comes from updated ...
Wall Street Journal

Trump Open to Healthcare Talks With Democrats to End Shutdown

Speaking in the Oval Office, President Trump said ‘some very good things could happen with respect to healthcare.’ Photo: Kent Nishimura/Reuters WASHINGTON—President Trump signaled a willingness to ...