2023

During my cover story trip to Ubisoft Bordeaux in France, my hands-on time consisted of Baghdad exploration and contracts. The former was good fun – Baghdad feels almost like a 2023 spiritual reimagining of Jerusalem in 2007’s Assassin’s Creed, with plenty of rooftops and parkour paths to hit from objective to objective. But the latter…

Baldur’s Gate 3 has arrived on PlayStation 5, and you can find out how it compares to the PC version by watching me stream it! I’ll be diving into Larian’s hit RPG for the very first time today on Twitch at 1 p.m. PT/4 p.m. ET, creating a new character from scratch and kicking off…

Three years after going public with its plan to open its first European datacentre in Dublin, Ireland, TikTok has confirmed the site is now operational and is in the throes of having user data migrated into it. The news was confirmed in a blog post by Theo Bertram, TikTok’s vice-president of public policy Europe, who…

Germany’s Constitutional Court remains unclear about whether evidence collected by an international police operation to penetrate an encrypted phone network used by organised criminals can be lawfully used to bring prosecutions in Germany. The Federal Constitutional Court (BVerfG) disclosed in a ruling yesterday that it was waiting to hear five constitutional complaints over the legal…

A large portion of ’90s kids look back on Rugrats with great fondness. As one of the defining cartoons of both the decade and the network of Nickelodeon, Rugrats spawned its fair share of licensed video games, but last week’s announcement of a new one still came as a shock. That game, Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland, doesn’t just feature…