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Adventure Games 15 years and a nasty IP war with EA can no longer hold back game after creator decides to turn characters into bunnies Action RPGs Stop Killing Games says Anthem's scrapped plans for ...

Jason Blum doesn’t scare easily. When the famed film producer began making horror movies on shoestring budgets more than a decade ago, he had every reason to believe he’d fail. “Everyone used to ask ...

I founded my company nearly two decades ago. As a bootstrapper, it was initially just me, but soon enough we grew to a dozen people, then a few dozen, then a hundred, and so on. In the early days, I ...

A new scam called ClickFix is targeting users and is on the rise in the U.S. As the name suggests, it prompts you to click on a link, claiming to fix an issue, but in reality it infects your computer ...

People sometimes conflate bootstrapping with starting a small business, but the reality is that most bootstrappers have huge ambitions—they just prefer to go it alone. Bootstrapping means maintaining ...

In October 2023, Soni Mehra left her Big Tech job to focus on her home-decor business. Becoming a full-time entrepreneur has come with changes and challenges, she said. Instead of making a steady ...

The day a new multiplayer game like Call of Duty launches is massive for the community. So, if an issue is preventing Black Ops 6 from launching on Steam, obviously it’s a problem players want to ...

A new ClickFix campaign is luring users to fraudulent Google Meet conference pages showing fake connectivity errors that deliver info-stealing malware for Windows and macOS operating systems. ClickFix ...