EVE Online's survival spinoff Frontier is a hardcore space sim you can play on a gamepad that's unlike anything else out there

EVE Online’s survival spinoff Frontier is a hardcore space sim you can play on a gamepad that’s unlike anything else out there

EVE Frontier is a weird game. It’s had an uphill battle winning goodwill from EVE Online’s infamously dedicated community, running into a refrain of, “Why should I play this crypto spinoff thing?” It’s gone through traditionally closed, often unsightly stages of early development in full public view, with players offering feedback along the way. It…

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Witchspire is a charming Palworld-esque survival crafting game that replaces the unpaid monster labour with magic and whimsy

I didn’t really like Palworld all that much—granted, survival and crafting games are hit-or-miss subjects with me, but I also just couldn’t quite get past the whole ‘isn’t it funny how your little critters get depressed if you put them on the assembly line for too long’ thing. Witchspire solves those problems, then, by being…

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Humble’s offering a nearly buck-a-game deal on some of the best reactive narratives out there, including one of my personal favourite games of all time

If I really sit down and think about it—put my thinking cap on and plumb the depths of my feelings—I can only conclude that 80 Days is one of my favourite games ever made. Top five, for sure. Top three even, maybe. Inkle’s adaptation of Phileas Fogg’s globetrotting gamble is a dang masterpiece full of…

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There’s one AI machine that doesn’t need a nuclear power station to run, and it points to a potential way forward in the memory crisis

AI is ruining everything, right? The economy, air quality, and computing as a whole have all felt the impact of the exponential growth in data centers for machine learning. However, there’s one little hardware AI project that proves bigger isn’t always better, and even shows a possible way out of the current memory crisis. It’s…

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