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The Internet Is Currently On Fire

Multiple vulnerabilities have suddenly been reported online, so let's figure out how we got here

By Lewis Parker Published October 22, 2026

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Stick Run Creator Manuel Otto Dies At Age 30 After Twitch Livestream Incident

Otto first published Stick Run to Facebook when he was just 14

By Lewis Parker Published October 21, 2026

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A PS5 Exploit So Bad The Hacker Who Discovered It Was Too Afraid To Release It May Have Just Been Patched

Bizarrely, this is apparently great news for people who want to pirate PS5 games

By Lewis Parker Published October 21, 2026

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Xbox Reportedly Emailing Users To ‘Trade In Your Console To Best Buy’

The email supposedly opens by asking Xbox Series owners, 'Haven't played on your console in a while?'

By Lewis Parker Published October 20, 2026

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Gaming’s Vibe-Coded Apocalypse Even Has Devs Who Rip Off Viral Steam Hits Complaining

The developers of the Needle In A Haystack Simulator clone accused another clone of being a 'byte-for-byte identical' rip-off of their work

By Lewis Parker Published October 18, 2026

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Company Behind GTA-Like Samson Goes Bankrupt Six Months After Release

The Stockholm District Court issued the bankruptcy order against the studio on Monday, following reports that Liquid Swords' developers have gone unpaid for the past two months

By Lewis Parker Published October 17, 2026

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Fans Are Comparing Grand Theft Auto 6′s Latest Trailer To Its First And Complaining That It’s A Blurry ‘Downgrade’

God forbid someone in Rockstar Games' marketing department decided to add a little artistic flair to a trailer

By Lewis Parker Published October 16, 2026

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Naruto Fans Are Trying Very Hard To Pretend That Boruto Is No Longer Canon

Dis-believe it!

By Lewis Parker Published October 16, 2026

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AI Vibe-Coding Just Hit The Video Game Industry Like An Avalanche

We spoke to Take-Two’s former head of AI and Godot Engine’s executive director about the Claude Opus–shaped problem that the industry is currently facing

By Lewis Parker Published October 15, 2026

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Something About Tom Cruise Meeting Attack On Titan’s Eren Yeager Feels So Wrong, Yet So Right

I haven't seen Cruise have this much onscreen chemistry with someone since Edge of Tomorrow

By Lewis Parker Published October 14, 2026

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The Vibe-Coders Have Come For Nintendo, And Obviously This Won’t End Well

Claude-assisted ports of Nintendo games have started popping up online, which surely won't upset the famously litigious Nintendo

By Lewis Parker Published October 13, 2026

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Ben Affleck Calls Justice League ‘The Low Point’ Of His Career, Criticizes Warner Bros. For Using Zack Snyder’s Bereavement ‘As An Excuse’

Affleck referred to Warner Bros.'s treatment of Snyder during Justice League's production as 'one of the shittiest things' he's 'ever seen'

By Lewis Parker Published October 12, 2026

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The Physical Revolution on Jailbroken PS5s Now Has People Emulating PS3 Discs

Coder Swordpdf has released a video showing a physical PS3 copy of Gran Turismo 5 being used to boot the game on PS5s, only three days after dropping the PS5SX2 emulator

By Lewis Parker Published October 12, 2026

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Cut Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced Epilogue Seemingly Teases Assassin’s Creed 3 Prequel

Assassin's Creed: Freedom Cry's protagonist Adéwalé also makes an appearance in the scrapped scene, which appears to be set two years after the birth of Assassin's Creed III's antagonist Haytham Kenway

By Lewis Parker Published October 12, 2026

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Home Of The Infamous Terraria Mod Calamity Gets Turned Into Pump And Dump For Crypto

The former Calamity mod team put out an 'Emergency PSA' post warning users not to fall for crypto scam and to promptly leave the server

By Lewis Parker Published October 11, 2026

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A New Naruto Manga And Spin-Off Anime Announced At New York Comic Con

Naruto: Shadow Rising is set to be released in 2027, and will be penned and drawn by Naruto's original author, Masashi Kishimoto

By Lewis Parker Published October 11, 2026

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Jailbroken PS5s Can Now Emulate PS2 Games Using Physical Discs

Support for PlayStation 3 discs appears to be on the way too

By Lewis Parker Published October 10, 2026

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The New Avatar Animated Series That Fans Accused Of Looking ‘Cheap’ Is Getting Rave Reviews

Critics are uniformly praising the latest entry in the Avatar: The Last Airbender series, with the only point of disagreement being the quality of Avatar: Seven Havens' animation

By Lewis Parker Published October 10, 2026

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New F-Zero Cheat Codes Have Been Discovered 23 Years Later

F-Zero GX's mythical Gold Parts can now be yours, provided you own four separate controllers and three friends to help you input the newly uncovered cheat codes

By Lewis Parker Published October 10, 2026

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We Might Be Cooked, As These Vibe-Coded Web Browser Ports Of Halo, The Simpsons: Hit And Run, And GTA: Vice City Seem To Work Perfectly

Call of Duty: Black Ops, Halo: CE, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Skate 3 and many more titles have been decompiled and ported to web browsers overnight

By Lewis Parker Published October 9, 2026