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Cracked Garry’s Mod, BeamNG.drive games infect gamers with miners
A large-scale malware campaign dubbed “StaryDobry” has been targeting gamers worldwide with trojanized versions of cracked games such as Garry’s Mod, BeamNG.drive, and Dyson Sphere Program. These titles are top-rated games with hundreds of thousands of ‘overwhelmingly positive’ reviews on Steam, making them good targets for malicious activity. It’s worth noting that a laced Beamng […]
Malicious PirateFi game infects Steam users with Vidar malware
A free-to-play game named PirateFi in the Steam store has been distributing the Vidar infostealing malware to unsuspecting users. The title was present in the Steam catalog for almost a week, between February 6th and February 12th, and was downloaded by up to 1,500 users. The distribution service is sending notices to potentially impacted users, […]
DDoS attacks reportedly behind DayZ and Arma network outages
An ongoing distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack targets Bohemia Interactive’s infrastructure, preventing players of DayZ and Arma Reforger from playing the games online. Bohemia Interactive is a Czech video game developer and publisher known for its popular Arma Series tactical shooters and DayZ, a standalone survival game from an Arma 2 mod. Starting last […]
Microsoft lifts Windows 11 update block for PCs with gaming issues
Microsoft has removed a safeguard hold that prevented devices with Auto HDR enabled from installing the Windows 11 2024 Update due to gaming issues. Throughout December, gamers complained on Microsoft’s community website and other online platforms that the feature made game graphics look high-contrast and oversaturated. The company confirmed these issues last month and acknowledged that turning on Auto HDR, a Windows […]
Microsoft previews Game Assist in-game browser in Edge Stable
Microsoft has announced that Game Assist, its recently unveiled in-game browser, is now also available in preview for Microsoft Edge Stable users. Game Assist is a special version of Edge optimized for PC gaming that will appear on top of your game in Game Bar as a “game-aware” overlay when hitting the Win+G keyboard shortcut. […]
Microsoft removes Assassin’s Creed Windows 11 upgrade blocks
Earlier this week, Ubisoft released Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and Assassin’s Creed Origins patches to fix Windows 11 24H2 compatibility issues that caused crashes, freezes, and audio problems. In late November, Microsoft blocked Windows 24H2 upgrades on PCs with Assassin’s Creed, Star Wars Outlaws, and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, following a stream of user complaints on Reddit [1, 2] […]
FTC cracks down on Genshin Impact gacha loot box practices
Genshin Impact developer Cognosphere (aka Hoyoverse) has agreed to a $20 million settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over its gacha loot box monetization and is now banned from selling them to teens under the age of sixteen without parental consent. This comes after the FTC referred a complaint to the Department of Justice over the […]
Stolen Path of Exile 2 admin account used to hack player accounts
Path of Exile 2 developers confirmed that a hacked admin account allowed a threat actor to change the password and access at least 66 accounts, finally explaining how PoE 2 accounts have been breached since November. The breached admin account allowed the threat actors to change the passwords of other accounts, with many losing their […]
Eternal Strands Demo Coming One Week Before Release
Yesterday, Canadian developer Yellow Brick Games announced that a free demo for its debut title, Eternal Strands, will be released on January 21, one week before the full game’s launch. The demo’s content has not been revealed yet, nor do we know if progress will carry over to the full game once purchased. Eternal Strands is the […]
Spider-Man Multiplayer Mod for PC Shown in New Trailer
A team of modders is working to add multiplayer to Insomniac’s Marvel’s Spider-Man on PC, and they’ve got a trailer to prove it already works. The original game, of course, offered no such feature, and neither did the sequel, despite some short-lived rumors and the fact that you do actually collaborate with the other Spider-Man […]