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Federal Court orders Apple to let Fortnite back on the Australian App Store
Fortnite is due back on iPhones here, and rival app stores must follow by March 2027. Apple will appeal.
The queue pops the moment you stand up. Every time. It's the only law of physics we trust.
Fighting games.
Brackets, grapplers and the quiet maths of a close set.
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Capcom says 11.7 million CAPCOM ID records were accessed in a breach
Email addresses and login details were taken. Capcom says original passwords and card details weren't, and Street Fighter 6 and its other games are still online.
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Persistent worlds.
Guilds, servers and the long hours between raids.
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Final Fantasy XIV logins are back after a day-long PHP security pause
Square Enix took its patch servers offline over a critical PHP flaw. Logins resumed at 10:16pm AEST on Thursday, but save data backups are still off.
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Elder Scrolls Online makes Greymoor free in its Echoes of Skyrim season
Season Two runs until 27 January and adds solo versions of two dungeons. Markarth joins the base game on 9 November.
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RPG and action.
Open worlds, RPGs and big adventures: Cyberpunk, GTA, Elden Ring, Zelda and more.
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Final Fantasy Resonance, the first HD-2D Final Fantasy, is out now
Square Enix's new turn-based RPG is out on PS5, Xbox, Switch 2, Switch and PC, with a free demo whose save carries over.
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Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.5 adds a new side quest, dual-wield pistols and console mods
CD Projekt Red's Edgerunners 2 Update brings the Clampdown quest, a new radio station and mod.io support across PC, Mac and consoles.
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Shigeru Miyamoto named for Japan's Order of Culture
The creator of Mario is one of eight people named this year. The Emperor presents the award on 3 Nov, Japan's Culture Day.
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Open worlds, RPGs and big adventures.
The RPG & Action pageShooters.
Maps, LANs and the last few metres to the exit.
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Serious Sam: The Third Encounter picks up where The Second Encounter ended
Croteam and Devolver Digital announced it for PC on Steam. It's in early development, with no release date.
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Oceania.
Aussie and OCE results, dates and servers. New pieces every day, plus every OCE story from the other sections.
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Federal Court orders Apple to let Fortnite back on the Australian App Store
Epic says Fortnite is due back from Friday. Rival app stores and outside payments must be allowed on iPhones here by March 2027, and Apple plans to appeal.
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All OCE storiesTech and hardware.
PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo and PC hardware: graphics cards, CPUs, RAM, handhelds, firmware, prices and launches.
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FSR 4.1 arrives on the ROG Xbox Ally X and X20 today as a preview
ASUS's preview GPU driver turns on AMD's AI upscaler from 23 October. The base Ally gets its driver on 28 October.
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Consoles, graphics cards and PC parts.
The Tech pageAI in gaming.
AI features in games, studio policy, tools, NPCs, anti-cheat and the people it affects.
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A Switch 2 jailbreak was built with help from OpenAI's Codex
Security researcher Sammy Hajhamid says the AI agent found the bug that opened up the console. It's software-only and doesn't survive a restart.
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