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Nintendo Switch 2 sold more than 6 million units in its first seven weeks on sale, Nintendo has announced. The company released its latest financial results on Friday, which cover the three months ended June 30, and are the first to include Switch 2 sales. Switch 2’s big launch game, Mario Kart World, sold nearly as many copies as the …

After originally planning to have all goo.gl URLs stop working later this month, Google will now “preserve actively used links.” In July of 2024, Google said all existing goo.gl links would stop working. That URL shortener stopped creating new links in March of 2019. The original plan was to have those links on August 25, 2025 return a 404 response. …

Anthropic revoked OpenAI’s API access to its models on Tuesday, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell WIRED. OpenAI was informed that its access was cut off due to violating the terms of service. “Claude Code has become the go-to choice for coders everywhere, and so it was no surprise to learn OpenAI’s own technical staff were also using our …

Mastercard has issued a statement claiming is has “not required restrictions of any activity on game creator sites and platforms”, despite allegations from both Steam and itch.io to the contrary. https://t.co/ORNC1ZIyck pic.twitter.com/T4B9cVUuLY — Mastercard News (@MastercardNews) August 1, 2025 In a post on Twitter/X today, Mastercard said the following: Mastercard has not evaluated any game or required restrictions of any …

In partnership with developers, game marketplace GOG (Good Old Games) has launched a new website called FreedomtoBuy.games that’ll let you download select “adult” games for free. GOG believes the website takes a stand “against the quiet erasure of creative works from digital shelves,” a response of sorts to recent decisions from Steam and Itch to delist certain violent and sexuality-explicit …

GOG launched a new website Friday where users can claim 13 games that have been delisted from other online sales portals for free. In a press release, GOG wrote that with the giveaway, it and the game publishers taking part are “taking a stand against the quiet erasure of creative works from digital shelves.” GOG’s giveaway–found at the URL FreedomToBuy.games, …

Nintendo sold 5.82m Switch 2 consoles worldwide in its first month of release and 5.63m copies of Mario Kart World, meaning the launch title has an attachment rate of around 97 percent. The figures come from Nintendo’s latest earnings release as of 30th June, where the company added software sales for Switch 2 reached 8.67m units in that same period. …

There’s a new turn in the itch.io story. In a forum post, itch.io creator and founder Leaf Corcoran has notified users that the company has begun the process of restoring thousands of NSFW pages that were deindexed — that is, content that has been removed from search results and recommendation lists. The catch is that in order for deindexed content …

Bethesda open-world RPGs tend to have long and vibrant shelf lives as players explore, experiment, and dive into new new DLC expansions. But compared to the likes of Skyrim and even Fallout 4, the post-launch life of Starfield has felt relatively muted, with no big new DLC yet in sight for the game in 2025. Now according to MP1st, Bethesda …

Verizon just announced a three-year price lock in April, but now the company has confirmed that it’s “making some adjustments” that will raise the cost of your phone bill anyway. In a statement to The Verge, Verizon spokesperson Adria Tomaszewski says the “vast majority” of customers will see a price hike of “less than 30 cents.” Tomaszewski doesn’t say exactly …