Towards the end of each year the Wikimedia foundation collates a list of the most popular Wikipedia articles, and it usually makes for interesting reading as a reflection of what people were generally most interested in learning about in the year nearly passed. This time it’s ChatGPT’s turn to top the tables, and given that…
Spare parts are a type of currency in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and it’s used to buy weapons, armor, and other useful items from the traders at the Resistance Headquarters. You’ll need to stockpile quite a lot if you want to buy some of the bigger items on offer, so it’s worth knowing the best…
Better yet, it’s free! The Sega Master System may have debuted in North America back in 1986, but games are still being released for the console all these years later, thanks to its amazing community of homebrew developers. Case in point — earlier this week, the developer badcomputer0 announced that they had released a brand…
One more grim notch for the 2023 games industry meat grinder. Australian indie studio League of Geeks is laying off over half its staff and pausing development “indefinitely” on early access starship management game Jumplight Odyssey. In a statement on Twitter, League of Geeks co-founders Ty Carey, Blake Mizzi, and Trent Kusters attributed the blow…
A small research group recently examined the performance of 25 AI ‘people’, using two large language models created by OpenAI, in an online Turing test. None of the AI bots ultimately passed the test, but all the GPT 3.5 ones were so bad that a chatbot from the mid-1960s was nearly twice as successful as…
I really like the idea of WoW Classic’s Season of Discovery (SoD)—it’s a genuinely fresh take on what it means to make a classic server. Not just rehashing the old, but remixing it too. In case you haven’t been keeping tabs, WoW Classic’s new seasonal realms will go through a Diablo 4-style cycle of seasonal…
How hard is yours? Worms has become one of the most recognisable brands in the world of video gaming, which is no mean feat when you consider that it all started as a personal experiment by computer shop staffer Andy Davidson on his humble Casio graphing calculator. This triple-pack of Worms titles kicks off with…
You know those dystopian notions of seas boiling over thanks to climate change? Well, China has a neat idea to accelerate a process which is already giving us the warmest sea surface temps on record. Heating up the oceans directly with computers. OK, that’s rather facetious; there have been numerous studies into such an endeavour,…
With more planned in the new year. Bandai Namco Amusement Europe has announced that it is opening three new stores in the UK over the next two weeks. The first will open on December 7th, 2023 in Ealing, followed by Brighton’s North Street on December 12th, 2023, and finally Meadowhall Sheffield on December 15th, 2023….
You are asked to find Nor shortly after arriving at the Resistance headquarters in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. They left the encampment and you need to use your Na’vi senses to find clues and track them down. The start of the quest is simple to figure out, but it’s easy to become disoriented when you…