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Secret Mode busted out of the Tencent-owned Sumo Group last year. Now what?

1 day ago

Back in February 2025, the UK-based Sumo Group – which has been owned by Tencent since 2021 – announced it would be focusing "exclusively on development services for partners." In other words, it would be doubling down on things like co-development, and would no longer be making its own games (the group's previous titles include Crackdown 3 and Sackboy: A Big Adventure).

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Lewis Packwood

Discord announces age verification will be required for all users from March

2 days 22 hours ago

Update, February 11 2026: Following a negative reaction to the announcement, the company subsequently updated it to state that "for most adults, age verification won’t be required" as the platform would be able to infer their age from "account information such as account tenure, device and activity data, and aggregated, high-level patterns across Discord communities." The company said it would not use private messages or any message content in this process.

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Jon Hicks

Can Build A Rocket Boy save itself?

2 days 23 hours ago

The latest twist in the MindsEye story came last week when staff at the Edinburgh-based studio discovered that the company had installed surveillance software on their PCs without their knowledge.

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Alex Forbes-Calvin
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