Friday March 27 - Updated to clarify the nature of the bans. Valve has just handed out almost a million bans in a major clampdown on Counter-Strike 2 bots and case farming. Project lead Ido Magal has confirmed the sheer size of the ban wave in response to players noticing a spike in the number of accounts being hit. The developer states that its focus was on "farming bot accounts," and thanks players for assisting in its ongoing investigation with reports of any suspicious activity.

Mods have always been a crucial part of the gaming industry. The game mods have brought something new to your favorite games through visual upgrades, new combat mechanics, and, in fact, a fresh take on the story. Over the years, game mods have helped several legendary titles like Skyrim andFallout stay relevant even years after their official release.

But Goddard tells Polygon that working on The Martian gave him complete confidence in audiences' ability to handle the science, and didn’t want it simplified or glossed over in the movie.

If you’ve been playing Marvel Heroes Tahiti this week, first of all, say hi if you see us because we are too. And that’s meant sitting through lengthy queues on the newly relaunched rogue server more often than not. Hopefully, that won’t be the case this weekend as the player devs have finally rolled out […]

A masked boss from the trailer for Crimson Desert, holding a knife.

The content warnings Disney puts in front of its streaming content have drawn controversy in the past, for everything from the exact wording of warnings to what does or doesn't get an alert. But Disney Plus' new animated short, Versa, fully earns the "sensitive content involving loss and grief" warning that precedes it. The short, about two cosmic beings mourning after their child dies in utero, is emotionally intense and built around heartbreak. It's a particularly personal project for writer-director Malcon Pierce, who explains in a live-action prologue that he wrote the short after he and his wife similarly lost a child due to a complication with her pregnancy.