Category: Gaming News

French video gaming giant Ubisoft has been forced to halt the live services of Rainbow Six Siege after hackers breached the game and dished out 2 billion in-game credits to every player.The exploit was initially confirmed by the team via X on Dec. 27, with a series of updates following, ultimately leading to a suspension of the game’s servers and marketplace the following day.Reports from players on social media indicate that hackers were able to take control of the major parts of the game’s online systems, with players reporting that everyone was receiving 2 billion in-game R6 credits upon logging…

Wizards of the Coast has hired longtime Dungeons & Dragons writer James Haeck as a senior game designer, bringing one of 5th edition’s most prolific contributors fully in-house as the D&D team continues to evolve. Haeck announced the news on a Dec. 31 episode of the Eldritch Lorecast podcast, where they noted that the role marks a shift away from freelance and third-party work and into leading future D&D books from within Wizards of the Coast. The move follows a period of major change for D&D’s internal design team. In the middle of 2025, veteran designers Chris Perkins and Jeremy…

Premise: Play as a detective, and solve a deepening mystery as you follow the story of 4 idol trainees trying realize their dreams of fame & fortune.  Details: Whispers of the Luminaries is an idol-themed murder mystery visual novel with “social links” mechanic similar to Persona 5. Socialize, make friends, and unwind over coffee, or focus on solving the case in your free-time. In Whispers of the Luminaries, you have the option to hang out at various locations such as a park, bar, or gym, where you can build trust with other characters, but instead of dungeon crawling, you get…

Vince Zampella, the co-creator of Call of Duty, founder of Respawn Entertainment, and head of EA’s Battlefield franchise died in a car crash on December 22nd. He was 55 years old. “We’re heartbroken by the passing of our founder and dear friend Vince Zampella,” Respawn Entertainment said in a statement on Twitter. “Our hearts are with his family, friends, and all who love him.”

Jumble has been entertaining folks since 1954 and has been a classic game where scrambled words require you to unscramble them in order to find key letters that leads to a final word to be unscrambled to answer the day’s pun! We have the answers for today’s Jumble, published on December 29th 2025 below. Need help in the future? Use our Jumble Solver Tool to get the answer! Daily Jumble Answer for December 29th 2025 Here are the answers to the 12/29/25 Jumble puzzle: NPDAA -> PANDACNHMU -> MUNCHWNWDIO -> WINDOWSARYSG ->…

As a teenager, I watched my grandma fight and defeat breast cancer. For over a decade, my family smiled through every milestone, whether it was a birthday, an anniversary, or something else, happy my grandma could be a part of it. My wife and I welcomed a beautiful baby girl into this world earlier this year and my grandma hasn’t met her. She never will, because in 2023, she died due to returning cancer complications, and I wasn’t there. I was in France for a work trip, and I still so vividly remember the call I got that terrible evening. I remember…

Meta is now letting preteens with parent-managed accounts explore different experiences in its online virtual reality (VR) platform, Horizon Worlds, with certain restrictions in place. The company announced that parents will soon be able to approve age-appropriate worlds they’d like their preteens (aged 10 to 12) to experience, including hanging out in The Space Station, exploring The Aquarium and playing the Spy School racing game. Preteens can either request which world they’d like to access, or parents can go through the list and select specific ones to grant permission. Meta has also implemented additional safety measures that aim to ensure…

As part of an ongoing effort to embed virtual reality (VR) in education, Meta has launched a new partnership with a slew of universities in the U.S. and U.K., designed to provide feedback on a new product that Meta hopes will finally make VR just a little more mainstream. The new Meta for Education beta program will see Facebook’s parent company partner with 13 educational institutions, which will get access to an early version of a product that Meta has been teasing for a while already. In a blog post on Monday, Meta said it wants to “make it easier…

Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images and damnzaddy13/TikTok | Published: Dec 24, 2025 06:00 pm An Ohio server accidentally discovered a massive tipping hack after joking around with his co-worker by yelling “Happy birthday!” across the dining room. This simple two-word phrase ended up netting his colleague a huge payday, and now servers everywhere are reacting to the shocking results. TikToker Zaddy (@damnzaddy13), who wears a Longhorn Steakhouse uniform, shared the story in a video that has exploded with over 291,000 views and was covered by BroBible. He was sitting in his car on his lunch break with a burger and…

A game with as much hype as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is bound to attract haters. Unlike most games, however, the beloved French RPG has birthed a social media phenomenon where ardent detractors decry the game only to later go online and admit they were vehemently wrong. On the r/expedition33 subreddit, this genre of post is practically a daily occurrence. “Add me to the pile of converted haters,” one post from Dec. 19 reads. “I get it now,” another poster, who says they were hating on the game during its TGA sweep, wrote last week. It’s become such a common…