Month: August 2023

Rockstar Games acquires modding team that it previously banned

If you can’t beat ’em, buy ’em.

Artist's rendering of FiveM operating free and clear as part of Rockstar after years of Rockstar claiming it was "facilitating piracy."

Enlarge / Artist's rendering of FiveM operating free and clear as part of Rockstar after years of Rockstar claiming it was "facilitating piracy." (credit: FiveM)

Longtime readers might remember popular Grand Theft Auto V mod FiveM from a 2015 story where Rockstar Games banned the mod's developers, alleging that their work "contains code designed to facilitate piracy." Eight years later, Rockstar is taking a decidedly different tone in announcing that Cfx.re—the mod team behind FiveM and a similar mod for Red Dead Redemption 2—is now "officially a part of Rockstar Games."

With no apparent sense of irony, Rockstar said in a Friday blog post announcing the acquisition that it has "watched with excitement as Rockstar’s creative community have found new ways to expand the possibilities of Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption 2, particularly through the creation of dedicated roleplay servers."

But that statement ignores the distinct lack of excitement Rockstar exhibited when it barred the Rockstar Social Club accounts of many FiveM modders and others associated with promoting the project back in 2015. "Our policy on such violations of our terms of service are clear, and the individuals involved in its creation have had their Social Club accounts suspended," the company said at the time.

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Blackberry Pi is a pocket-sized device that runs a full Linux-based OS

If you’re looking for a Linux-based handheld PC these days, there are plenty of off-the-shelf kits you can purchase. But if you’ve got the parts, desire and skill why not build something like the Blackberry Pi yourself? The device you see …

If you’re looking for a Linux-based handheld PC these days, there are plenty of off-the-shelf kits you can purchase. But if you’ve got the parts, desire and skill why not build something like the Blackberry Pi yourself? The device you see here started out as a Gameboy-inspired build, but maker IMBalENce had always wanted to […]

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Maxtang NX-N100 is a fanless mini PC with an Intel N100 Alder Lake-N processor

The Maxtang NX-N100 is a small fanless PC with support for up to 32GB of DDR4 memory, up to three displays, and two 2.5 GbE Ethernet ports. It’s powered by a 6-watt, quad-core Intel Processor N100 Alder Lake-N processor. The little computer went…

The Maxtang NX-N100 is a small fanless PC with support for up to 32GB of DDR4 memory, up to three displays, and two 2.5 GbE Ethernet ports. It’s powered by a 6-watt, quad-core Intel Processor N100 Alder Lake-N processor. The little computer went on sale in Japan last summer, but wasn’t widely available in other […]

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