Cybersecurity consultant Volodymyr “Bob” Diachenko revealed the leak last week. He explained that a misconfigured system meant records of many orders were openly available online from the 18th of August, and was even picked up by public search engines. He estimated that it affected around 100,000 customers. That is a lot of information for a lot of people. “The server misconfiguration has been fixed on 9 Sept, prior to the lapse being made public,” Razer said in a statement to Diachenko, the day after his post....

There was a Halloween update for RDO last year, including a limited time Fear Of The Dark PvP mode, but us PC folks had barely gotten our hands on the game at that time. This year, it looks like we might get plenty of time to creep through a Halloween update and a dedicated Outlaw Pass of rewards to go with it. Red Dead players have gone digging in the game’s files and appear to have found evidence of a Halloween-themed Outlaw Pass and images that might show new clothes, weapons, and game modes....

As spotted by VG24/7, Red Dead 2 players have found a way to avoid fall damage by puking their guts out. Yup, remember that trick for your next lads night out. (Please for the love of all that is good do not actually jump off anything while vomiting in real life.) Red Dead 2’s vomiting animation overrides the falling animation and has prevented players from taking damage when they land on the ground....

Perfect timing: Mojang have just released a series of Minecraft “Soothing Scenes”. There are five in total and each one is an hour-long video featuring a recreation of a Minecraft setting, from rainy swamp to cosy fireplace, to help you unwind. Look, you don’t need a lot of words from me to know whether you need this in your life or not. Personally, it’s a welcome balm after wrangling with Microsoft accounts for half the day....

“For over 10 years, we’ve had a crazy dream. The idea that the tales told in some of our games would be connected to each other, a connected world of stories and events with shared characters and lore. Each game is a stand-alone experience, but each game is also a doorway into a larger universe with exciting opportunities for crossover events,” Sam Lake, Remedy’s creative director said on Friday. “Slowly, patiently, behind the scenes, we’ve been planning and plotting to make this a reality....

In the animated short released today, a reporter interviews Forge—the recently announced new legend for season 4—about his imminent entry to the Apex Games. Forge is pretty confident about his skills and dares any of the other legends to “bring the fight up close and personal.” Alright, here’s your chance to watch it before I tell you what happens. Have at it. For a minute there, it seemed like Respawn had gotten the better of players for season 4....

In an update on Steam its developers first acknowledged that work is ongoing on fixing various savegame and crash bugs that the playerbase have reported. They’re also going to add Japanese language support “probably next week on PC”, although “further languages are not planned at this moment” due to the cost of translating its 200,000-word script. In terms of future content plans, “Matthias is currently working on NG+ and some smaller Quality of Life improvements,” says the post....

That’s when DC’s Fandome is. The virtual convention will show off upcoming DC comics, movies (including a Suicide Squad reboot), and, apparently, games. The image teasing Supes as a target fits in with earlier speculation. As Eurogamer pointed out in June, companies linked to Warner Bros. and Rocksteady had registered SuicideSquadGame.com and SuicideSquadKillTheJusticeLeague.com domain names. The latter is a strong contender for the game name, which is probably why we’re staring at the back of the head of the world’s blandest hero....

Ten years after putting down the blade, the 2020 reboot of Samurai Shodown has brought SNK’s sharpest fighter back as an Epic exclusive. As expected, it’s brought some of its oldest mates along for the trip Samurai Shodown is your standard SNK fight ’em up affair, save for everyone swinging their fancy swords all over the shop. Some folks have different kinds of swords, some are packing four swords in a backpack....

Trek To Yomi is the tale of a young swordsman in feudal Japan, whose vow to protect his town leads him on an adventure taking a supernatural turn. Yomi is the land of the dead, y’know. So off he goes, stabbing in side-scrolling violence with dramatic camera angles. Our Ed recently had a go on a preview chunk. He quite liked what he played, calling the combat “elegant”, and especially liking what he saw....

Here’s the video that explains everything: It’s a common story for early access games. They want to produce regular updates for the audience, because that’s how you attract and maintain that audience. Some features simply cannot be produced in the short turnaround those regular updates require, however, and so they get bumped back and bumped back. If developers want to actually finish a game - or at least hit something they can call 1....

The reasons for this are outlined in Katharine’s review from last year, wherein she praised the monitor’s elegantly curved panel and vibrant display, which provides a fantastic picture straight out of the box. “There was very little need to fiddle around with any of its settings in its onboard menu system to try and get a better picture,” she wrote. Another big plus is the monitor’s support for both AMD FreeSync and Nvidia G-Sync, helping you smooth out and eliminate screen tearing regardless of which graphics card you own....

This deck also includes a few of the class’ new Stealth-based tools. We’ve got a full-on deck list and guide for Stealth Rogue if you’re interested in taking this archetype to the next level of course. Secret Rogue deck list and strategy Here’s our favourite Secret Rogue deck at the moment in Ashes of Outland. Check back for more info once the meta develops though! Select and copy the long ID string below, then create a deck in Hearthstone to export this deck into your game....

Slay The Spire, you really should know from the PC version, is a deck-building roguelike challenging weird heroes to ascend a strange vertical city and slay whatever horror at its heart keeps as trapped in a cycle of death and rebirth. Honestly, it’s one of the few fantasy settings I’ve enjoyed in a video game, fun and surreal. The cards are a joy and all. Spire’s maths has clear and dramatic consequences, as Tom Francis explained, and you can get some ridiculous combos going as you collect cards and items....

Here’s the trailer itself: The first Slime Rancher was a surprise delight: a first-person farming game in which you gather unpredictable jelly creatures, spit them into pens you’ve built, feed them crops you’ve grown for them, and earn money with which to further expand. It’s relaxing and moreish which Pip (RPS in peace) called “a delightful, irrepressible thing” in her Slime Rancher review: Slime Rancher 2 looks, honestly, like more of the same, as the same protagonist ventures to a new environment with new slimes and softer lighting but the same set of activities....

You play as Izy Song, a hacking-based private investigator in a fictional, dystopian island in the near future. And she’s kind of a fool.

It’s grim, but it’s also the perfect blend of some of my favourite things ever: Zero Escape, Danganronpa and Battle Royale (the Japanese thriller, not the game genre) - and I implore you to give it a go.

My favourite move there is Cal picking up a stormtrooper with the Force, dangling him in mid-air like a puppet, and pulling his strings to shoot his mates. Completely dickish, but that’s what stormtroopers are for. Here’s EA’s marketing blurb to explain what’s up with your man’s return: Star Wars: Jedi Survivor is due to launch on the 17th of March via Steam, the Epic Games Store, and the EA app (formerly known as Origin, currently still bad)....

The download manager shifts the information around. All the speed details are on one line now. The biggest change in usability is reordering your downloads. Now you can drag them around, instead of clicking on the little movement icons to move them up and down. It’s not a huge change, but it feels more responsive and a bit more readable. If you click the gear icon on the top right of the page, it’ll take you to Steam’s settings, and in there, in the ‘Downloads’ tab and then ‘Steam Library Folders’, is the new storage manager....

In their blog post, they add that Steam has seen a load of other record-breaking new highs as well: with 62.6 million daily active players, 24.8 million peak concurrent users, 31.3 billion hours of playtime, and a 21.4% increase in number of games purchased over 2019. Steam users playtime was up by 50.7% compared to 2019 too (though it isn’t clear if that’s talking about an average user’s playtime, or playtime of all Steam users combined)....