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Riot Games Says It 'Would Not and Cannot' Use Vanguard Anti-Cheat to Brick PCs After Rumors Spread

May 25, 2026
Riot Games has stepped in to squash rumors that it is using its Vanguard anti-cheat to “brick” the PCs of players who get caught cheating in its games. Rumors that the League of Legends and Valorant developer was bringing a permanent end to cheaters spread late yesterday following an X/Twitter post from the company. In response to a separate post about its anti-cheat efforts, Riot…
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Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced Is Much More Than a Facelift | IGN Preview

May 22, 2026
Thirteen years after Ubisoft ditched Desmond Miles to go full pirate in Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, this seafaring adventure is still considered by some to be the best pirate simulator of all time. So it’s no wonder at all that Ubisoft has decided to dust off this bad boy and remake it in the style of last year’s Assassin’s Creed Shadows, complete with all the modern trimmings you’d…
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BioShock Will Never Escape Ken Levine, and Levine Will Never Escape BioShock

May 21, 2026
A replica Big Daddy towers over Ken Levine’s living room – an artefact of the universe he walked away from. “I didn’t have a lot else to say in that world,” he tells IGN in a new interview. “A franchise is an interesting thing, because it can come to own you if you’re not careful. It can define you.” Perhaps the Big Daddy, sitting in pride of place as an ornament, is a useful…
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Games Workshop Had a Cheeky Response to One of the Most-Asked Warhammer 40,000 Lore Questions From Fans

May 20, 2026
One of the biggest — if not biggest — questions from fans of Warhammer 40,000 lore is: who will be the next returning loyalist primarch? In a rare Q&A video, Games Workshop actually addressed the question — but failed to provide a meaningful answer. For the uninitiated, the primarchs are the overpowered, genetically-engineered demigod sons of the Emperor, created to lead the Space Marine…
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